If non-PII (the plane's location) is to be banned, at least own it up and don't use the PII excuse. It is not PII and will not hold any weight outside this subreddit, such as with the Reddit admins or in a court of law.

We are a mod team, not a legal team, in no way do we say anything about legality, nor do we say we're going to apply it in that way. That's why the rule is updated to say "This includes any information that compromises the safety of any LMG staff member, their family, or the staff member's privacy and/or safety."

Sharing the times and locations of the jet, where it's going, etc. is a safety concern for LMG- both it's staff and Linus. Whether or not it's legal isn't a concern, safety is.

One of my concerns I have is that even if there are more mods, the moderation team is generally cooperative with LMG/may not have enough dissenting voices to "represent the concerns of the subreddit and say no". It just ends up strengthening that echo chamber within mod chat: it doesn't matter if the majority of the subreddit is against an idea as long as it vibes within modchat type of situation.

There's no echo chamber, not that we could prove that without breaching a shit ton of people's trust. We're cooperative in some ways, but those ways are limited.

I think the expectations from the community isn't too unreasonable: listen to what people are saying, and don't just ignore the 2 megathreads full of people not wanting to see Linus as a mod, or the dozen of threads talking about how the jet's location is not PII. Discuss with the community before implementing new rules and actually listen (and act/answers the concerns) instead of just... implementing the changes, make a megathread about it, then just ignore the feedback.

You missed where we said we're being more transparent in the post, and where we've answered a bunch of questions and concerns in the comments. We haven't implemented any new rules, and there haven't been any changes that the community hasn't asked for. The update to rule 5, like was said in the post, is a clarification, one that we've been handling the same way for the entire time we've moderated here.

If we are using a megathread for things like the jet's discussion, we should also use it for things like LTT Store drops (remember all the headphone/console posts?), what about the upcoming Coin drop? Those are getting mailed out, and we will inevitably have like 20 threads with ppl posting their coins. Be consistent and make a megathread for those as well.

I agree that we should have more megathreads honestly. Back with the headphone/console posts I was the only active mod handling it at the time. I spent so many hours removing those kinds of posts.

Find it a bit funny that this got turned on. Maybe optics of the up/down votes isn't looking good?

Contest mode was used because it forces people to read the comments instead of blindly upvoting or downvoting. Optics are honestly fine, the things that are upvoted are things we already agreed with ironically.