[Subreddit Meta announcement] Hello everyone. Some updates for all of you.

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Hello. As a quick update to all of you, I want to say a few things.

  • The money based question ended with pretty much a tie. We’re talking 2 votes in favor of limiting money based posts in some factor. What does this mean?

Well, this means that while we will not be banning money based posts, we will limit individual user ability to post money based posts to 3 times in 1 day. If a user posts more than 3 money based posts in 1 day then we will remove the subsequent post and ban the user for 1 week.

You may believe this is barely a solution, but this is the first step in trying to ensure that everyone is happy. The subreddit’s subscriber count has continued to grow on a daily basis, which is also good news.

For the second factor:

  • We have a new rule. No edits to remove loopholes. Once you make a post, you have 2 minutes to make any edits necessary to your post if you spot a glaring issue, otherwise the post remains as it is. If you add an edit to remove a loophole, your post will be removed. Read over your post carefully before you post it. This does not cover edits to clarify posts. Just edits to remove an option for users to use.

As always, you’re all free to comment and discuss. I try to reply to every comment in some way or another.

Make sure you familiarize yourself with the rules of the subreddit. This place is for random hypotheticals. Let’s not take it super seriously, shall we?

Comments

  1. B_drgnthrn Avatar

    Awesome! It’s getting annoying to find an answer to a hypothetical, and the user just edits it to say that’s no longer valid

  2. dank_imagemacro Avatar

    I am so glad for this change, but I don’t envy the amount of moderation you will be doing in the next few days.

  3. Creepy-Two-6800 Avatar

    love the new loophole rule
    if anything i encourage people to find loopholes in the stuff i post

  4. DaNinja11 Avatar

    Honestly I would be in favor of one Money 💰 🤑 💸  per account per day

  5. molten_dragon Avatar

    I’d like to comment here to clarify some points on Rule 8. It has pretty quickly become the most commonly used report reason on the sub.

    • People obviously like to look for loopholes in the situations posted here and that’s fine. We don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum.
    • That said Rule 8 is intended to prevent OPs who are really abusing the edit function to try and stop that.
    • If OP is making multiple edits to change the prompt/rules to try and close any loopholes people are finding that’s a pretty clear violation and we’ll remove the post.
    • If OP is clarifying something or editing to respond to questions that were asked in the comments, that’s not a rule violation.
    • If you feel OP is really violating the rule feel free to report and we’ll deal with it. But seeing an edit in the OP is not an automatic rule violation. Please stop treating it like it is.
    • Calling OP out in the comments and being rude is not appropriate, even if OP is breaking rules themselves. Comments that do that will be removed.
  6. zebostoneleigh Avatar

    Thank goodness. All these money based posts are lame and repetitive and boring.

    I this moment, literally came to ask the following question:

    Why are these hypothetical questions always about money and faux occupations. There’s a lot more to hypothetical about.

  7. ard8 Avatar

    Motion to add a rule stopping people from just always commenting

    • “I already experience [this pain or sadness]”
    • “you guys are getting paid to do this?”
    • “I’m already doing this for free”
    • “This is just another day for me”
    • etc.

    Cringe. And the same people do it on tons of posts.

  8. 7Soulslayer Avatar

    Banning money questions outright would solve both issues. If money is always one of the options then people are always going to try to cheat or find loopholes to make as much money as possible. This sub has become nothing but ways for people to fantasize about making money.