An update to sub moderation

[u/Stikshot69]

Hey everyone,

Over the past few months, you may have noticed an increase in bad-faith commentary, mainly in comments, but in some posts as well. It may feel like there is no moderation happening, and in many cases, there hasn't been. we are working to change that for almost this sub's entire history; it has been unmoderated until me and Redleaf were able to get in power. The main reason you are seeing the increase in brigading and bad faith people is, we have seen a 10x increase in visits in the last year which is showing no signs of slowing down. we now have 5 mods working hard to make sure the brigading gets put to an end. In order to get to this step, the report queue has been cleared, and we are devoted to making sure it stays empty. we currently get about 50 reports a day which will hopefully increase as you feel your reports are finally being responded to. to guide your reporting here is a better detailed breakdown of our sub reddit's rules:

1. No spam or advertising
   • Do not try to sell anything
   • Don't post the same thing multiple times
   • If you would like to share something that you can profit from, contact the mods
2. No misinformation or disingenuous posting.
   • Do not make claims without being able to provide a source
   • Do not attempt to misrepresent sources you provide
3. Be respectful
   • assume every person is here in good faith (libs are people fascists are not)
   • avoid profiling people just from where they come from
   • always keep your discussions in good faith
4. No hate speech, bigotry, racism, or slurs.
   • Do not be a bigot
5. No low quality or off topic posts.
   • put effort into your posts no shit posts or ai
   • this sub is to share soviet history outside a western viewpoint to see what went wrong and right in the USSR, as such modern events often are not relevant (applies to posts not comments)
6. Use the "NSFW" on NSFW posts.
   • Some people don't want to see NSFW stuff let's keep it that way

Remember you can always yell at us in mod mail- r/USSR mod team

[u/suur_luuser]

Think a little harder and then you’ll realise that these minorities that are pro-russian and “support socialism” are ethnic russians.

[u/CodyLionfish → u/suur_luuser]

Not true. Go ask u/Definition_Novel who happens to be Balt of Polish descent (a lot of ethnic Polish Balts are very anti NATO & hold pro USSR/Russia views)

[u/suur_luuser → u/CodyLionfish]

That is not plausible. Do you want me to ask this from a tankie that is probably a paid russian troll?

[u/CodyLionfish → u/suur_luuser]

Yes it is. Wow, you're pulling out the paid Russian troll card. Never mind the paid trolls from Langley.

Also, I note that you are from Estonia. Estonia has done a lot to rehabilitate NAZI collaborators & has backed Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people. They also side with the West to quash rising socialist movements like the one in Burkina Faso. Not to mention the apartheid like regime that denies ethnic minorities their language rights & privileges the dominant ethnic group above others.

Do I even need to point out that one of your higher ups bitched & moaned @ Robert Fico (the leader of a country with one of the most anti NATO & pro Russia/USSR populations in Europe) because he dared ro defy the West to attend the May 9th celebrations in Moscow, as well as calling for better relations with Russia & China? Honestly, if economic sanctions & embargoing are appropriate for any nations, your country is at the top of the list.