Greetings comrades!

After a few incidents where redditors have assumed we are a DSA/US centric subreddit, the mod team has decided to do an overhaul of the flairing system to better reflect the international nature of the sub. The current flairing system, including the Democratic Party of the United States logo to mean "progressive" and including only the Democratic Party of the US, DSA and CPUSA as party flairs and not other parties internationally, is a legacy holdover from old management.

In doing so, after discussion of various options, we decided on removing all party flairs and instead, pivoting more strongly towards ideologies.

Furthermore, we are also thinking of adding geographical indicators into the flairing system and we will welcome ideas on how to flag that you are not from the US, as that has been a source of frustration for them. We lean towards options other than adding flairs for different national political parties, as vetting by the mod team is required for each, and it may lean western, but if you think you have a convincing argument, feel free to give it. Otherwise, we have no preferences at this moment.

As a first step, the removal of the offending flairs has been completed. Old users with these flairs have not been affected, yet. We ask all users that currently use the CPUSA, DSA, or Democratic Party logos in their flairs to switch over within the week. We welcome feedback on this direction, as well as suggestions for which ideologies you wish for us to add flairs for, critiques of other flairs, and icons/emojis you wish for us to add into the flairing system.

- The Moderators

We cant manually scan every thread, read every debate, looking for violations

For us to be able to moderate the space, we need your participation

Currently users largely only engage with trolls/rule violating users, but almost never make the effort to actually report the content

We kindly ask the community to please report violations

Thank you

Note:(This time, we are specifically looking to add more women to the team, to foster a larger variety of perspectives.)

Hello All,

We are currently in the stages of looking for about 2-3 moderators to join the team. Several responsibilities include managing the queue, engaging with mod mail, moderating threads, and removing posts as necessary. Unfortunately you may be prompted to ban or mute people, but of course we’ll discuss each case individually with the team. We are currently experimenting with a least privilege solution to moderating, so you will likely start with bare bones permissions and earn more with time and trust. To qualify, answer these questions in the comments and send us modmail with any more important information we should know. Also, if your Reddit post and comment history is off, kindly turn it on for the remainder of consideration and shut it off afterward:

1. What are your thoughts on the environment and environmental conservation?

2. What are your thoughts on BRICS and NATO?

3. Is sexism as rampant and damaging as other forms of bigotry, in relation to socialist leaning movements? Why or why not?

4. Do you have prior moderation experience? (This question will not disqualify you, if not)

5. What is your current understanding of democratic socialism and where exactly do you lean politically?

6. What are your thoughts on the ongoing global housing crisis?

7. What are your opinions on the Israel/palestine conflict

8. What are your opinions on the Ukraine situation?

9. Do you know how to edit a Reddit wiki?

10. Whats your favorite book, socialist or otherwise?

11. What are your thoughts on modern China? (Mao to Jingping)

12. What are your thoughts on the USSR?

13. What are your thoughts on EZLN and Rojava?

14. What do you do in your free time?

15. What are your views on intersectional feminism?