I made a comment to this effect the other day. Scrolling through this community, out of about the 10 most recent posts, I see one that is borderline oniony and the rest are just straight up news, mostly US politics-related.
Is this OK? Is this what this community is for? I ask because I want to see can’t-believe-it’s-real headlines, but if this is going to be another doom scroll bad news sub I’m going to leave and look elsewhere. Just curious to hear people’s feelings on this before I do.
It may just be that many people posting don’t exactly decipher between the true ethos of the community and something their view as, like you said, stranger than fiction. I would say it’s more on us, the community, to use the upvote/downvote function to help curate what we view as content within the spirit of the community.
sort of, but i would support the mods if they tried to take action themselves.
the saddest downfall of a community was r/MURDEREDBYWORDS. used to be the funniest shit with the most beautifully crafted comebacks. but then poor moderation let politics start creeping in. the politics was fine and still funny at first. but politics gets engagement, it starts bubbling to the top, and then the quality of content took a nosedive while engagement remained high. now the community is totally derailed to the point that whenever i transitioned from reddit to fedi, i preemptively blocked whatever the parallel sub here was.
hated to see that comedy sub just become “republican bad,” and would hate to see the same happen here.