several posts per day here are a clear troll posts and bids for drama but are not removed. until this community’s mods start acknowledging and responding to this problem, this community is simply providing a platform for drama fiends who get off on making you upset. simply put, this is both destructive and frankly not fun.
and i’d like to point out that reddit’s r/unpopularopinion bans political posts. not saying that this is the best move for this sub in particular, but it is something that can perhaps give guidance on what can be done.
We don’t have enough good content to be worried about it being drowned out by shitposting.
Heavy handed moderation only makes sense when post volume gets too high for people to just downvote and move on.
I completely disagree. A well-moderated community is a good community no matter the size.
And high volume is extremely overrated.
I feel like more moderation might not be a bad thing. The community can downvote whatever and block users who post it but it still sits out there festering for people who visit the community or sort by new. Sure it adds content but does it benefit the community? I don’t really think so. A bot that reposts Fox news articles here would have the same impact.
i hear you. for sure not calling for heavy handed moderation tho. specifically want trolls to be actually dealt with. if that means losing that 15% of post volume i personally am fine with this because it means 100% fewer gross bad faith debates going on in my feed.
And the alternative to not getting rid of the bad posts is getting rid of followers. I am about to unsubscribe here due to the volume of posts that aren’t discussing true unpopular opinions. Until then, I will keep downvoting the shitposts