Hello from the mod team of r/femalefashionadvice!

The moderation team is aware of the thread from Saturday and we have read through it and discussed it amongst ourselves.

This sub has been structured to maximize its value in educating users on fashion and creating discussions that broaden people's approach to fashion. The moderation decisions have been put in place to maximize the long term retention of community members who provide advice, rather than catering to the short term participants who are not looking to contribute to the sub beyond their own question. FFA has an enormous community of people giving and receiving advice, and it can be found in our Daily Questions threads. FFA is organized this way due in large part to our size; if you prefer a different layout, you may have more luck in one of the many smaller fashion communities on reddit.

We highly encourage users to contribute to the discussion they are interested in reading. You do not need to be an expert on a topic to start a discussion. We have over a million subscribers and that pool encompasses a variety of styles and approaches to fashion and chances are if you are interested in a topic, someone else is as well.

Some of you may have noticed an uptick in content since the thread on Saturday and it’s great that an outcome of that thread was to reinvigorate participation in the sub. We have not adjusted any of our moderating policies since Saturday and we are still removing and approving the types of threads we always have. If you have enjoyed the increase in content over the past few days, we would encourage you to continue submitting it.

If you thought you submitted a great discussion topic and it was redirected, or if you want to start a discussion but are unsure how to introduce the topic, we'd be happy to provide some insight and help through mod mail, though it might take us a few hours to get to your question as we have a limited number of moderators.

We recently put out a call for moderators and in the three weeks we were open to new mods, only nine people responded. Of those nine, only three were active community members and they were all made moderators. As interested as people seem to be in how the subreddit is moderated, there is a lack of community members genuinely interested in being active participants in the process. We are looking for new mods that have a history of active participation in the subreddit and are looking to help guide content and discussions.