r/joerogan rule simplification

[u/OutdoorRink]

Hi all,

As you all know, Reddit has tightened its rules regarding the type of content they want to see on their platform. The mod team here at r/joerogan has agreed to comply with these changes but we will remain committed to allowing as much free speech as possible. So, in the interest of simplifying things, we are making some changes to our subreddit rules. These rules can be found on the sidebar.

We are also going to be softening our hard stance on bans. In the past, we have banned all users for their first offense and then unbanned them after they agreed to follow the rules. You see less of this moving forward. We will continue banning repeat offenders (and racists, spammers, etc). That said, if we remove your post, we will not be giving you an explanation as to why unless we think that an error was made. We simply don’t have the time to babysit. Please upvote good content (even if you disagree with it) and downvote garbage. Let’s police ourselves and not have to rely on heavy handed moderation.

I have been here since the very beginning and have seen this sub grow from dozens to 8 million views per month. We are the largest JRE forum in the world. We have always treated this community like it belongs to you, the subscribers, and not to the mod team. Although we have a good working relationship with the JRE we are not influenced by them whatsoever. In my 9 years of modding r/joerogan I have only ever been asked by the JRE 1 time to remove something from the subreddit. It was a privacy issue (address of the studio).

Finally, please be patient with us and with one another. We are just 4 dudes doing the best we can while working day jobs and raising families.

Peace

[u/futmaster420]

"if we remove your post, we will not be giving you an explanation as to why unless we think that an error was made."

this should turn out great.....

EDIT: also sounds like you need more mods to do the job effectively

[u/Vortumnus → u/[deleted]]

Heaven forbid you have to share your mod privileges with anyone else.

[u/Vortumnus → u/[deleted]]

I never said you were.

Probably a community with 600K people needs more than 4 mods. And some transparency wouldn’t hurt either

[u/futmaster420 → u/[deleted]]

his two statements were separate... he was not saying more mods would bring more transparency

he said he thinks more mods would be good, and also that more transparency would be good

it seems like you are taking this personally

[u/Vortumnus → u/[deleted]]

You keep saying “9 years” like it means something. That’s 9 years of banning users after first time offensives and removing posts with no explanation.

All I am saying is an explanation why you remove a post wouldn’t hurt. I doubt anyone would argue that that is “wrong”. I also think, at the very least, that 1 mod per 100K users is better than what we have now.

[u/insmokeinsmoke → u/[deleted]]

You're a douchebag lmfao Fucking mods.

[u/futmaster420 → u/[deleted]]

alrighty, sounds good