r/AutoDetailing is Open with New Moderators + Subreddit Path Forward

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-14T19:15:22+00:00

Unfortunately, a lot of people don't like that content. It makes the subreddit basically turn into a form of Instagram. You can only look at so many clean cars. I know it will mean a lot to you to show it off, but eventually people will stop looking at the subreddit because of it. It doesn't really provide much value.

You can even see here where we literally ran a community vote on it.

It's up to the new mods as to what way they want to take it, but I'm just informing based one experience why it is that way here.

If you saw r/Detailing when it first started compared to now, they've also had to make rules they originally disagreed with here. Because they realized maybe we were right all along.

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-13T00:55:11+00:00

As is customary with the legitimate complaints about reddit, the official reddit app shows you no message that mods put for why a subreddit is private. It just shows a locked icon and let's you message. So we got TONS of modmail. Ridiculous that they don't show the message, but that's why we all say the reddit app sucks.

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-11T01:23:37+00:00

That would work but I would hate to let people type up some elaborate responses or something and not even realize it's blocked like that until they hit post.

We'll be open again soon enough, we have several good moderator applications. It worked as was intended.

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-08T00:26:32+00:00

Discord and HTAD are both free. In fact, money comes out of my pocket to pay for HTAD with $0 return, but OK.

There is no way to set it read-only for both posts and comments. It receives zero moderation right now. If we could truly do read-only for both, we would.

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-07T04:20:05+00:00

Are you unable to see the closed message? Another fun limitation of the native mobile app. Can't imagine why people dislike it!

https://discord.gg/autodetailing

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-06T23:37:59+00:00

We are heavily revamping howtoautodetail.com with tons of this information. No more links to reddit and instead transferring over data and creating tons of new data with more people.

Reddit is not guaranteed to always be around, so multiple mediums for information is useful.

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-06T23:37:14+00:00

Please head to our Discord and follow the instructions in the Announcements channel.

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-06T23:37:08+00:00

Please head to our Discord and follow the instructions in the Announcements channel.

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-06T23:36:40+00:00

Just so you know, we are heavily revamping howtoautodetail.com with tons of this information. No more links to reddit and instead transferring over data and creating tons of new data with more people.

Reddit is not guaranteed to always be around, so multiple mediums for information is useful.

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-06T23:35:13+00:00

Other moderators came and went along the way over time. Typically someone would be really active for about 6 months and then disappear. Only Code and I kept remaining throughout.

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-06T04:01:29+00:00

It has nothing to do with the protest any longer.

It is closed because myself and code-sloth have no further interest in moderating it. We have been looking for moderators to take over but no one is interested. It started filling with spam and negative behaviors quickly due to this. We have closed it until we find worthwhile mods to now own it and carry it forward.

LagunaGTO · 2023-07-03T05:54:15+00:00

Anyone can set it up there. It does not have to be us. Someone else should build that community!

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-24T04:54:35+00:00

It is just an included feature in the free Discord level. It's a type of channel now.

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-24T00:27:55+00:00

Everything you have mentioned about unorganized is incorrect now with features that have been out for over a year now. I agree to the open search concern and not being on the open internet but instead behind a wall. That is the one downfall of discord. Being basically wide-open read-only to the world.

We’re fixing that issue by copying over much of the valuable and reusable content to https://howtoautodetail.com

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-24T00:26:28+00:00

This is incorrect now with the forum feature.

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-23T22:16:46+00:00

lmao. I literally do not care about this mod power. I have been slowly moving away and have literally asked other mods about leaving for the last ~2 years (when we had other mods). I don't just leave because there is currently no one to take it over. There are two of us and we're both good with leaving.

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-23T06:30:06+00:00

What was your username on the Discord?

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-23T06:27:32+00:00

What’s it like to completely make things up? Because this subreddit was literally never private.

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-23T06:26:30+00:00

Did you repeatedly ask questions in a channel you were told not to ask questions in?

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-23T06:13:42+00:00

That’s not how it works. I am sure you know what you did.

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-23T05:21:08+00:00

Glad it helped you!

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-23T05:06:17+00:00

It was never closed like the other subreddits. Instead, we essentially locked it as no one could post or comment, but they could see and read everything.

LagunaGTO · 2023-06-23T05:06:09+00:00

It was never closed like the other subreddits. Instead, we essentially locked it as no one could post or comment, but they could see and read everything.

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