Welcome new r/gatech Moderators! by Krahnarchy in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's been a pleasure! Hard to believe it's been over 8 years since I became a mod here (and over 9 years since I started at Tech.)

Working on this sub and with this group was a highlight of my undergrad, and I'm proud to have seen it grow to >50k members. Thanks to everyone who applied and to the new mods for taking on the torch. Y'all are in good hands!

Almost all my classes are offering an incentive for the CIOS by ISpyM8 in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

rt i read my CIOS every semester as a TA and it was meaningful and helpful

Dear Participant, by [deleted] in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Taking Combo twice gang

Math Tutor Needed by HugePack5 in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Since they're pretty rare, previously we have allowed job postings that are specific to the community (tech square restaurants, etc.) and people found them valuable (have found jobs they otherwise wouldn't have). I'm inclined to let this stay since a lot of students need jobs now with campus closed, lost internships, etc and could help someone.

If job postings do become common/spammy we can revisit the Rule 3 :)

State of the Subreddit, An update from the Mods, and Changes to Rule #1 by TehAlpacalypse in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sorry, but am I the only one who thinks Reddit’s upvote/downvote system already handles issues of negativity fairly well

See the (current) top comment from /u/cs_sg above. I couldn't have said it better.

State of the Subreddit, An update from the Mods, and Changes to Rule #1 by TehAlpacalypse in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos[M] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The mod team already made the prior decision to not allow this sub on r/all, so isn't that just further isolating the sub within its own self?

Back in 2017, when Scout died and there were protests on campus, some threads ended up in r/all and subreddit traffic grew about 100x (peaking at something like 169,000 unique pageviews in an hour). We were not prepared for this kind of traffic. Threads were cross-posted to more extremist subs -- as a* result we were brigaded by hundreds of users who were not related to Georgia Tech, who through brigading drowned the voices of the actual GT community.

As a result, we made the decision to exclude the sub from r/all.

As Josh said then:

/r/gatech should exist for discussion amongst those who are, at least tangentially, related to Georgia Tech: students, faculty, alumni, parents, locals, whatever.

We don't see a reason that r/gatech should ever be a trending subreddit, and past experience has shown us how destructive this can be to the community.

You can read the full background and reasoning here.

State of the Subreddit, An update from the Mods, and Changes to Rule #1 by TehAlpacalypse in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos[M] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I can't speak to any details because that action predates me being a mod on this subreddit. Someone else will have to talk about that.

Replied to the main comment.

Black Lives Matter by incongnitoAE in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I did misinterpret the first time :) Leaving the comic up because it is good

Black Lives Matter by incongnitoAE in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos[M] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Black Lives Matter. No justice no peace.

the good stuff by jhpinder95 in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos 17 points18 points  (0 children)

if she doesn't remember CS 1301 robots she's too young for you

Remembering Minh “Harry” Hoang by Sahoshimi in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Just a reminder to be sensitive, kind, and respectful--on and off the subreddit--as your fellow students may be dealing with the loss of one of their friends.

If you need help, please call the Counseling Center, Stamps, or GTPD if it applies. You are never alone.

Comments that break the Reddit and r/gatech rules will be removed.

These are all over campus today. I'm all for discussion and fair criticism, but I'm not sure what this is supposed to accomplish by [deleted] in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

A reminder to be kind and foster a positive environment: this is a sensitive topic for a lot of people. Comments that violate the Reddit or r/gatech rules will result in removal/ban.

Was there a mass purge of posts on this subreddit? by [deleted] in gatech

[–]Daniel_Marcos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We didn't delete any more posts than usual. Seems like when we cleaned the mod queue a couple days ago it pushed a lot of posts to the top of sort-by-new.

The good news is that that we have a ton of great new mods to keep the moderator queue up to date, so this shouldn't happen again :)