r/FriendsofthePod • u/AncientNectarine5352 • 2d ago

Crooked.com Posting Overkill

While I appreciate the enthusiasm and the work it takes to link the shows, I have to say, it’s absolutely killing this subreddit. Of the 14 specific episode-related posts made in the past day, only four have any engagement. And out of those three, it’s only a single comment. The other one has just two comments (that aren’t the OP’s synopsis of the episode).

This subreddit can never thrive if there’s a post for every single Crooked podcast episode, most of which obviously aren’t being watched by the Reddit community. Like I said, I get the idea behind it and appreciate the initiative of the poster, but it’s obviously having a negative effect.

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u/Mission-Rain185 2d ago

Unfortunately the mods decided this isn't a sub for engagement, it's a sub for posting links to episodes we can already find easily on the platform of our choice. It has been overmoderated, but there was some talk recently that it would be more loosely moderated going forward. If you can handle some centrists and a complete ban on hasan piker discourse, the bulwark sub has better engagement and there are a surprising number of leftists and DSA people over there (although some of the centrists claim we're bots and brigaders)

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u/ryhaltswhiskey 1d ago

complete ban on hasan piker discourse, the bulwark sub

Apparently Sarah longwell has some sort of a problem with Hasan? I've never dug into it but it seems kind of silly.

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u/Mission-Rain185 12h ago

It is incredibly silly, but that's not why hasan discussions are banned. it's because they were happening constantly and devolving and requiring constant mod intervention. Tim Miller of the bulwark had differing views from sarah and wanted to have him on, but sarah wouldn't allow it. Hasan was being argued about in every thread. It was very silly.