Let mods keep their subs off the front page and s/all
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FlasherGordon
2 weeks ago
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I run a NSFW sub and post to NSFW subs. Some people who I guess hate porn downvote almost everything posted to these subs. I can only assume that's because they see these porn posts on the front page or s/all - because why would they go looking for stuff they don't wanna see?
For whatever reason these people don't wanna block NSFW so they just downvote it on sight. It's annoying as shit and I gotta change the sort on my own sub just to check the new posts because they're downvoted to the bottom.
Please let mods keep their subs off the front and all pages.
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I could probably do that.
Not sure if that's the best idea. It could make moderation for admins difficult If they can't see what's being posted in every sub easily. If, for example, somebody was spamming something across a bunch of different subs, but most of them didn't show-up on on s/all, It could make it more difficult for them to notice it, and to track down all the spam. While this will probably be rendered mute when the traffic on this site starts to pick-up, for the moment at least, this helps keep things nice and simple for site-wide moderation.
I'm actually against this change. I think downvotes should inherently be treated as a feature rather than a flaw. It's also misleading to label a board as "all" when it doesn't actually include everything.
I think if a mod doesn't like how their sub is being treated by the greater community, then making the sub private is already an adequate solution.
Agreed. Though a more elegant solution IMO is to discriminate between votes. Something crass could simply be to not allow voting via certain feeds (like all). On reddit it could be painfully obvious when a post hit all. Having moderated a sub that strove for constructive discussion it consistently killed discussions. It makes sense that a person would have to be part of a community before contributing.
It is one of those things I am personally looking when trying to find "future" forums/communities to get invested in. Reddit was a news aggregate website and not built for discussions and there are seemingly a lot of sites that are just copy pasting reddit without considering this new intent.
That gives me an idea, but I'm not sure if this would come with another host of issues.
There could be two voting systems that operate independently, but carry the appearance of being synchronous. Comments would have an "all" score and a "sub" score. Users who visit the thread from the sub board would see the post with the "all" votes filtered out so that now their [best] sort would be reflective of only votes cast by community members. (only subscribers to that sub would have their votes counted)
Then for visitors from "all", I guess you'd just show them all the votes added together. It wouldn't make sense to separate them in this instance since climbing threads would have tons of comments with only a score of 1.
I think a system like this would also help against brigading, especially if moderators had the ability to set a time requirement for how long someone has be subbed before their vote is given "subscriber" status. Paging /u/Cicero
>I think downvotes should inherently be treated as a feature rather than a flaw
But what about the potential case where a site gets overrun by a mass of coomers? s/all would turn into a porn catalog.
Also, private subs don't fit the role well, blocking NSFW stuff by making it private doesn't make things better either.
The site already has content filters for situations like that
That's true. However, mainchan doesn't have private subs. I'll think about it.
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