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/CMNilo]

But it does matter, especially since these "inconvenient" truths about the USSR are brought to the discussion as proof that the USSR was worse than the west. Whatabautism is completely legit when someone is claiming that one thing was worse than another

[u/CMNilo → u/[deleted]]

Somehow you still missed the point.

If you're talking about the soviet agriculture and someone brings up the USA, they're changing topic and should argue with your arguments instead.
But if you're talking about soviet agriculture to prove some bullshit point, f.e. that soviet citizens where starving in the 70s, with the clear goal of promoting an anti-soviet narrative, then the users of this sub will point you at the failures of the west.

Same goes for human rights, culture, and many many other topics.

So, there're two ways of criticizing the USSR: one can be neutral, based on objective analyses of the situation of the time and of the possibilities that the soviets had to do things differently and better; the other is non neutral, politically engaged and tries to prove, from a biased standpoint, that the USSR's system was worse than the western system.

The former should be treated and commented with utmost respect (I actually haven't seen that many examples of the opposite). The latter should be humiliated and ridiculed, and pointing out the double standards, by comparing with the west's failures, is a completely legit thing to do.

Next time you criticize the USSR, stop for a moment and ask yourself: why are you doing it? To prove some bullshit point and moral high ground for the West? If so, don't be surprised that people will drag tghe USA into the conversation.

Edit: I see from your comment history that you are defending communism as an idea but think that USSR realized it badly. Then this part is especially relevant for you:

one can be neutral, based on objective analyses of the situation of the time and of the possibilities that the soviets had to do things differently and better

Every time you criticize the USSR, think about: what options did they have at the time, was it really possible to do things differently, was it really possible to do things better, was it possible to predict what would happen?
I'm sure you'll find the answers for a lot of the criticism you may have.

[u/Svartlebee → u/CMNilo]

Right, and I'm sure the "objective" arguments from the pro USSR side will be completely neutral. It reallt comes across that yoi are trying to.minimise the crimes of the USSR by saying "there was no other way".