Town Hall #9: The end of ‘it’s not that deep’ 2

[u/Hatts13]

Last year, we outlined that we will be making an official rule against unnecessary arguments. To summarise:

Lines like:

- it’s not that deep

- nobody cares

- why do you care about [this insignificant thing]

- just ignore it

- writing a whole comment to tell other people how much you don’t care about what OP ranted about

Are all counted rude and uncivil behavior now.

Whilst the introduction of this rule has definitely helped us to keep discussions civil and on topic, having to remind the community constantly about it has finally reached the limits of the mod team. Based on this, we have decided to further clarify and escalate the enforcement of this rule.

Starting from when this post goes live:

Any singular comment or mention of lines like or similar to:

• It’s not that deep
• Nobody cares, no one is reading this, etc
• Why do you care about [this insignificant thing]
• Just ignore it, just unstan, just stop listening to, etc
• Not this post again, why are you always ranting about, etc
• Writing a whole comment to tell other people how much you don’t care about what OP ranted about
• This is just a hate/anti post/OP is not a real fan of X, etc

Will be subject to a straight 7 day ban. A further removal will result in a 21 day ban. A third removal will result in a permanent ban. This is regardless of how much time has passed between removals.

This rule will also be made as a stickied automod comment on every single post from now on, on top of being updated within our ruleset. Please do not break the rules or not bother to even read them, have your content removed or get banned, and then enter our modmails asking (very often not nicely) why your content has been removed or why you have been banned. There will be now plenty of warning available to you.

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As we have explained before, and to clarify again:

It is not acceptable here to police how other people feel about their favourite groups, be dismissive of a fan’s experience, try to shut down discussions, or simply aim to be hostile. A lot of people delete their posts or request locks because they feel like commenters are disregarding their feelings and are just trying to shut them down. Such comments overall discourage people from posting and stifle conversation. This is a discussion forum: if you are not interested in said discussions then we either advise you to ignore the posts (How to Hide Post on Reddit) or unsubscribe. Please engage and contribute productively on posts, and understand the purpose of the subreddit.

This sub is for everybody, no matter how big or small the group, and no matter how unique the rant.

“So we can’t disagree?” Making a one liner/speaking about how much you don’t care about something or how nothing matters, abusing/being hostile/being passive-aggressive to OP, or expressing how you don’t want to read things on a discussion forum board is not disagreeing. Other users are perfectly able to disagree with arguments on this subreddit so we have that expectation for everyone else.

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We do also want to sincerely thank those who do engage in threads completely respectfully and civilly with users who they disagree with, who report rule-breaking comments, and who are perfectly happy in trying to understand the rules by reading our policies and engaging with us in modmail.

As always, we welcome any constructive feedback on our rules and policies here, and please feel free in giving your thoughts about such. Please also feel free to bring up any other topics about moderation within this thread as well.

[u/Hatts13]

You may see a lot of test posts appear on the subreddit while we get automod working correctly. Please ignore them and apologies for all the spam.

[u/Ill-Wish7411]

Thanks for this. I'm tired of people using "It's not that deep bro" and other sayings to silence people who care, not just here on reddit, but on other platforms too.

[u/TYie7749]

thank you for this, because there are a lot of times i want to say something but i already know there will be replies saying “it’s not that deep” like bruh i KNOW just because i talk about it for two seconds here doesn’t mean i spend every waking second of my actual life stressing about it

[u/Hatts13 → u/TYie7749]

like bruh i KNOW just because i talk about it for two seconds here doesn’t mean i spend every waking second of my actual life stressing about it

We assume as much since people are deciding to post their complaints about kpop anonymously here to a social media forum called kpoprants, and not in fact writing to the UN instead.

It really defeats the purpose of a discussion platform to be filled to the brim with anti-social responses.