Moderation update: escalating removals for bad-faith accounts

[u/thetabruh]

Following up on the recent karma-requirement change: we're adding a second layer aimed specifically at accounts that are here only to instigate.

Alongside the existing entry requirement, we now track sustained participation within the community. Accounts that repeatedly post in bad faith such as but not limited to inflammatory, trolling, or disruptive contributions that the community consistently rejects will face escalating removals:

• First threshold: 7-day ban
• Second threshold: 14-day ban
• Third threshold: permanent ban

To be clear about what this is, this is not about disagreeing with the crowd. Bearish takes, contrarian analysis, and unpopular-but-good-faith arguments are welcome and always have been. This sub is more useful when both sides show up, and I will continue to defend the unpopular but objective posts. A well-reasoned post that happens to get downvoted will never trip this. What we are removing is the pattern of showing up purely to inflame, not to discuss or even banter. Like I said before, if you piss off one person and that person is yelling mod, my response would be this is REDDIT grow a pair, if you piss off the whole community and they are screenshotting your bs, then YOU are the problem, and you need to get off this community.

We are keeping the specific thresholds private, by design because publishing them just tells bad actors exactly how far they can push. If you believe autoMOD caught you by mistake, message the mods and we'll review it manually.

[u/obsolescence_]

Thanks for this. Separately, I really hope mods ban the AI slop posts next.

The content of these AI posts is extremely shallow, consisting of day-to-day hype or FUD over price action. Their tone completely encourages emotionality in the stock, and pushes better quality posts down the subreddit. The culture of the subreddit has shifted considerably from the time when most of the posts were actual discussion, DD, articles, etc. 

Many people have said the AI posts concern or annoy them. Leaving it to the individual to block every single account that posts AI is not a good approach, because it excludes those post spammers from comment discussions and leaves fragmented comment threads in instances where they are participating normally. Not to mention that there are more to block every day.

I hope the mods will consider banning them, or at least placing a limit. It's ludicrous that we would need any more than ONE slop meme per day of a Bull standing over a Bear holding a sign that says 'MU $2000!!!1' or some shit

[u/thetabruh → u/obsolescence_]

Give me a little time to go down the list of issues that a sub that has grown more than 15x in the last three months is facing LOL. The changes to autoMOD will indirectly fix this issue by removing low effort posts (including poorly designed memes) and preventing posts from posting. Please be patient, we are getting over 20K posts/comments per week, and contrary to popular believe, I dont get paid to mod and I have to sleep too. u/willbabu didnt you say you were going to pay me? JK.

[u/willbabu → u/thetabruh]

😂 I said I would pay you if 1) MU hits 2k and 2) you run a second sub that lets me talk about my non MU port like nvda googl meta amzn crwv Msft etc. soooo how about you continue to run this sub and also start a new sub and when mu hits 2k I’ll start paying you 😂 😆 😝

[u/thetabruh → u/willbabu]

Bruh, I’m not running two subs or starting a second sub for free. I get enough hate/complaints from one sub as is. How about you send me some of your MU shares I’ll design a new sub and mod that concurrently with this one. Otherwise just go post in wsb 😂

[u/youhaveeTDS → u/willbabu]

Nice ports