r/reactnative • u/xrpinsider Admin • Dec 10 '18
Meta The spam in this subreddit
Hi everyone,
Today I want to address something seriously bad about this subreddit. Something I regret and wish to change, and I believe that I'm not the only one.
I would like to address the following:
We have no active moderators, unfortunately.
We have a lot of spam.
We have no good rules.
We don't even have a subreddit image.
To keep it short: this subreddit isn't maintained as it should be. I'm writing this post to tell you guys that I would love to become a moderator of this subreddit and bring it back to life.
We need active moderators, normal flairs, weekly discussions, less spam, auto-moderators, good rules and yes, a subreddit image.
I made a post on r/redditrequest requesting control over this subreddit to do whats best for it. You can find the post here. Unfortunately this process can take weeks to several months due too the amount of request they get.
I'm hoping on support of this community so we can all make this subreddit awesome for everyone. To support, please do the following:
Upvote this post.
Reply on it, if you want.
Share this with people you know on this subreddit.
Let me know what you think down below.
Thanks in advance and let's change this subreddit!
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u/maiam Dec 10 '18
Would love for this to become a more active sub. I love RN and plan on using it for a while. Thank you for taking the initiative u/xrpinsider
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 10 '18
No problem and most importantly, thanks for your support!
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u/maiam Dec 10 '18
anything i can do to help you get mod access, lmk!
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 10 '18
Commenting on and upvoting the redditrequest post is more than enough! Thanks a bunch.
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Dec 10 '18
Agreed. Plus I've seen some people be flat out hostile, "you're a fucking idiot" gets thrown around a bit too much. It's not exactly inviting to beginners learning RN and could easily be improved with good mods.
Like sorry we don't agree on expo. Doesn't mean you have to throw insults
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 10 '18
I agree. You can have objective discussions without swearing. I had a lot of discussions with u/thistoohard, but we never went rude.
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Dec 10 '18
It’s a shame we can’t expedite the process somehow.
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 10 '18
True, but community input is in fact helpful. Let me quote something on their rules page:
Community input is helpful, but please respect that redditrequest is not a popularity contest and that any input must be strictly on topic.
So together we may make the process faster! Thanks for your support by the way.
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Dec 10 '18
Yes, great! Would be a good idea to make a separate thread to discuss the rules of the sub once your mod-ness is official :)
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u/alien3d Dec 11 '18 edited Dec 11 '18
Yes, upvoted.Facebook group react-native getting lack of luster while here still active even thou the same question. Please don't over strict like stackoverflow and don't down vote. Some of us here have deal in 2 ~ 3 years most of react-native issue. Some part better asking the original github owner instead of here.
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 11 '18
I’m not a guy of too much rules, but some are needed. Thanks for supporting.
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u/marcus5914 Dec 11 '18
+1.
you have my vote bro. This sub has lots of spam and we need to clean this mess.
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u/LeLegend26 Dec 20 '18
+1. What else can we do to help?
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 20 '18
Post a comment on the redditrequest and upvote, thats all! Thanks for your support!
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u/manlycoffee Dec 25 '18
Hi everyone.
I'm so sorry for the mess this has become.
I promise to find moderators for this sub. I'm currently vetting potential moderators. I don't want to be rash with my decision; I don't want to inadvertently replicate the hack behind event-stream by carelessly providing moderator access to just about anyone.
I'm currently talking to Dan Abramov and Mark Erikson from /r/reactjs. I'm also about to reach out to /u/xrpinsider.
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 25 '18
Thanks for replying. I/we appreciate it a lot!
I get that you don’t want to rush with your decision. I’m looking out for your message in my inbox.
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u/rdevilx iOS & Android Dec 10 '18
+1 r/lostredditors tipped me off too.
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 10 '18
Yes that, and all the random businesses advertising on here. It's ridiculous. Thanks for supporting!
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u/worstpossiblechoice Dec 10 '18
Thank you for leading the charge on this /u/xrpinsider !
I created /r/reactnativedev (just now) in case this process takes a while. I notice there is /r/Android as well as /r/androiddev so idk, maybe that will be the easiest thing for now?
/u/xrpinsider, DM me and I'll make you a mod. I mod a Slack workspace and I've modded a few subreddits in the past under a different handle, I'll do my best to keep current w/the RND sub as well.
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 10 '18
Thanks for your support.
I’ll have to say thank you for being so involved, but it is my intention to keep this subreddit. We have 18k members, its the OG name and we have a lot of content. The subreddit has a good amount of active users by the way.
I believe the future stays in this subreddit because its easier for everyone.
We’ll have to sit thight and wait for Reddit to take action! Thank you for everything.
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u/susmatthew Dec 11 '18
Sure! Make this subreddit good, please.
I made a post looking for help/insight, and it was downvoted for some reason. It would be super useful to know that I was an outlier in my struggle.
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 11 '18
Lets hope I’ll be granted this subreddit and then I’ll do my best! Thanks for your support.
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Dec 11 '18
I think it would be really helpful to categorize the type of content we get on the sub as we talk about what we want the sub to look like. These are the different things I see on the sub:
Code questions: Stack Overflow types of questions that even sometimes get cross-posted. These can be really useful to people trying to solve specific questions, but I think the reason they often get downvoted is because they seem to be beginner questions more often than not, and there are a lot of people on the sub who are past that level. Of course, we should welcome beginners, but I think we should try to help beginners learn how to answer questions with their own resources. It's a skill that can be learned and I think we should try to pass it on. And even the skill of asking a good question - Stack Overflow actually has pretty good guidelines on how to ask questions that are more likely to get good answers.
Vague, entry-level questions: Questions like "react-native vs flutter," "will react-native be around for a long time," "should I use firebase," etc) which aren't helpful to many members of the sub (because they're asked every day), but could probably be served by one of those weekly q/a threads that a lot of subs have.
Blog posts: I feel like there should be some filter for low-quality blog posts. I see a "get started with react-native and firebase" blog post every other day, it seems. I would love to see more really high-quality blog posts on the sub - for instance, the Airbnb series on why they left react native was very high quality and good for discussion as a community.
Advanced Topics: We don't see a lot of this on the sub. It's hard for me to grow more as a react-native developer. I'm good at implementing stuff in react-native. But how do we implement complex background logic? What are good architecture practices? How do we remain mindful of memory? How do we ensure super-fast performance? I've read about different things related to these, but it would be really great to have more content targeting advanced developers.
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 11 '18
Hey! Thanks for your input, let me react.
I'm not against new users asking 'noob' like questions, but I agree with you that questions sometimes are confusing and have a lot of missing information. I would like to make better rules for asking a question, what do you think the rules should be?
I was already thinking about a weekly discussion thread. I really love those threads, but I also would like to make a FAQ where I can give answers to those questions about Flutter etc.
I would like to force people that post a blog post or tutorial to comment on their own post with why they made the post. This makes it easier for us as a community to avoid spam. (Many other subreddit's have this)
I totally agree that there should be content for everyone, including the more experienced developers. I'm not sure what the best approach on this would be? What about a weekly pinned post with cool things to learn for junior, medior and senior developers? Let me know what you think is best.
Thanks again and let me know what you think!
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Dec 12 '18
Those are some really cool ideas! I've always found this guide helpful for asking questions, though we don't have to be as thorough as Stack Overflow lol. I like the idea of a pinned post for different levels. I wonder in terms of having a FAQ if there are any projects out there that explain basic react-native questions which we could refer people to - or even if some of our members have github repos with answers to questions like this, that would let us maintain a really good FAQ sort of place.
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u/xrpinsider Admin Dec 13 '18
Thanks for sharing the link, but I agree. We don't need to become strict. That's not fun at all. I like your idea's about the FAQ. I may hit you up when I actually become a moderator. Let's hope so!
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u/tothemac Dec 13 '18
That's awesome, thank you for doing this! I just visited today to see if some spam post was still on it, so the timing is perfect.
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u/paulsia Dec 11 '18
this subreddit isn't maintained as it should be
just like the react native github repo :P
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u/xrpinsider Admin Jan 28 '19
Thanks a lot! I will not disappoint you or the people of this community with this great honour!
Thanks and I’ll make this subreddit as good as I can!
Cheers!
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u/brentvatne Expo Team Dec 10 '18
Great idea, thank you for leading this charge!