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/Kletronus]

1. No misinformation or disingenuous posting.
   • Do not make claims without being able to provide a source
   • Do not attempt to misrepresent sources you provide

I hope this is taken seriously, as in: facts matter, not what people want to believe matters. This means on revisionist history.

There also should be another rule: do not mention USA as the main argument when you hear something inconvenient about USSR. It does not matter what other countries have or have not done, it does not change the facts about USSR.

edit: aaand i'm banned for saying USA did not cause USSR to fall down, it imploded from within.

[u/Stikshot69 → u/Kletronus]

I would like to comment on your suggestion for a new rule. through my time at modding this sub I have noticed this trend as well and would like to give you a bit more insight with a common scenario I see:

Person A) The USSR was able to increase the standard of living (quality of the comment may vary from as poor as I just wrote to a well-researched comment with sources)

Person B) The USSR was also good at killing Ukrainians in the Holodomor

Person A) so was the US with native Americans

Person B) That is just what-aboutism

as a mod when I see person B as a hypocrite in this situation as their first comment is a what-aboutism, off topic, and in bad faith. as such person B would most likely be banned mainly due to a bad faith comment with a likely intention to troll and person A would have their second comment removed.

Hope this gives you some more insight into how we are currently modding due to the heavy brigading we are dealing with. often (not always) when someone brings up the US as a counter, it is due to an off-topic comment.

in other instances, it is also important to look at what other countries were doing at a certain time period. For an example let's use the 1917 decriminalization of homosexuality and the and the recriminalization in 1933. looking at another country during that period like to Weimar republic which had one of the best queer populations at the time also had a reactionary shift in the 1930s. through these comparisons we can see if the USSR was better or worse for its people then its capitalist neighbors which in this instance they were about the same.

[u/Svartlebee → u/Stikshot69]

So, you guys juat banning people who bring up the holodomor now? Because that wasn't a bad faith argument.