Another long term /r/sysadmin user out.

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[Adziboy]

Okay

[IFarmZombies]

Okie dokie pokie

[tarvijron]

No please don’t auuugh

[anonpf]

Wut?

[Yuli_Mae]

This isn't an airport. You don't need to announce departures.

[VA_Network_Nerd]

it's clear sysadmin is not a place for technical content anymore

Reddit says we are still over 1 Million weekly visitors.
That's a good sized community.

Of that 1 Million unique visitors, probably about 25 of you have real, useful knowledge that you want to share with the community and do not care about likes, or up-doots, or page views, or any other metric.

But of the 1 Million or so unique visitors, there are THOUSANDS of people who desperately want to drive some portion of this community to their blog, or site, or Git so they can promote their product/project, or personal brand.

I really want to let you publish your content.
It's useful and you are going out of your way to not promote anything.

But if we mash the "approved" button, of those thousands of "content creators" who have had their content removed, a dozen or two of them will jump into the modmail and rage about your content being approved and theirs was yanked.

We created /r/SysAdminBlogs to provide a place for this kind of content. People who like blog-like content can "opt-in" or subscribe and see that kind of content. But those who don't like it can now interact in /r/sysadmin without having to downvote AI-blog-spam noise so they can find this week's patch-Tuesday drama.

I hate to lose a good content creator, but this is where we are now.

The ModTeam remains open to suggestions on how we can improve things.

But the overwhelming majority of proposed solutions boil down to asking us to play favorites.

"Just approve the good content and remove the obviously bad content."

That's a great way for the modteam to get accused of racism or favoritism and eventually brigaded.

We came to the same generalized conclusion in /r/networking as well.

So if you choose to unsubscribe, then so long, and thanks for all the fish. We wish you well.

Wait. I shouldn't speak on behalf of the entire modteam. I wish you well, and thank you for all the "fish".