I can't stand by and watch stuff like this happen around here. I will not support subverses (by featuring them or making them defaults) with moderators who impose questionable rules such as "your post has to end with a questionmark". Moderators need to calm their tits and focus on nurturing and growing their communities. Rules can always be bent and what better time to bend the rules then now, while Voat is still growing and under development?
I am thankful for moderators who help keep Voat spam-free and I respect your work. I really do. I started working on automoderator for comments and submissions and your job will be made much easier when this is implemented, but for the time being, moderators need to relax and focus on removing spam and eventual illegal content. If I submit a new post and it gains some traction (hundreds of comments, views and upvoats), and my post gets removed because I broke a rule by forgetting to include a question mark in my submission title... well, I would be pissed. People take removal of their comments and submissions very seriously and moderators must think twice before removing stuff if they want to avoid offending users. Voat has a ranking process where time acts as gravity and older posts will eventually fall off the frontpage. Voat also has automatic public moderation logs and everything you remove will still be visible in these modlogs and your actions may be questioned by the community, just like what happened yesterday.
This action can be reverted if /askvoat mods can convince us that the issue has been dealt with or if some other, less restrictive community takes over.
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no_censorship_bruh ago
Even Atko is pissed :/
It's best to have discussion on subverse rules and let the community decide. That way, mods won't have to do all the heavy lifting and come up with their own rules. Providing a list of pros and cons to each rules with examples would also provide more insight as to how a rule can affect the community.
Kleyno ago
An easy way to fix this would be to give Mods the ability to modify post titles, with what was changed, and why, publicly visible in the Mod Log (important that last part, to ensure any abuse can be identified).
Or, we can just wait until @Atko and co deliver on their wonderful auto-mod bag of goodies.
SniperPriest69 ago
I agree that mods should be able to change the titles, but the title changes should be instantly visible by changing the colour of the edited characters to red (or something else obvious).
SillyDillySaurus ago
Or, they can change titles, but they have to be approved by the OP, that makes sure that they're not putting words in the OPs mouth.
Zkv ago
I'm not sure that's a perfect solution either. For instance, editorialized titles or things that turn out to be misleading should be renamed, but the OP might have an agenda.