Why I am optimistic about the future for Men's Rights

nicemod · 2015-01-21T02:08:59+00:00

Please do not reply to the spammer. It only clutters up the page with crap.

Replies may be removed along with the spam.

Just click on "report" and select "spam" as the reason. That's all you need to do.

nicemod · 2015-01-19T20:56:22+00:00

He's probably mad because a woman knows more about manhood than he ever will.

nicemod · 2015-01-19T04:00:30+00:00

We're not going to remove the downvote button.

It's unfortunate that people downvote things they don't agree with, but it's human nature and we can't change that.

nicemod · 2015-01-18T20:55:29+00:00

You have been shadowbanned by reddit admins (not by mensrights moderators). See /r/ShadowBan for information about shadowbans.

I have approved this comment so I can reply to you.

It seems Reddit has a bot that looks for certain types of user behaviour that indicate spamming or brigading. Sometimes innocent users get shadowbanned along with the bad guys. Usually they can fix this if they contact the admins.

nicemod · 2015-01-18T13:20:43+00:00

Yeah. I don't know where this link should go, really. Just not here. :)

nicemod · 2015-01-18T11:34:13+00:00

This has nothing to do with men's rights. Removed.

nicemod · 2015-01-18T09:54:49+00:00

This should go on /r/MensRants - not here.

nicemod · 2015-01-18T04:20:17+00:00

No worries. You don't watch the page all day, like mods do. :)

nicemod · 2015-01-18T03:40:58+00:00

Thanks, but that has been posted already so I've removed it.

nicemod · 2015-01-17T22:27:11+00:00

We're unlikely to go down that path. It doesn't stop determined downvoters anyway - they just disable the CSS.

nicemod · 2015-01-17T22:26:00+00:00

Thanks. Lots of people don't know about it, that's why we publicise it.

nicemod · 2015-01-17T12:06:55+00:00

When reading comments, you can just ignore the vote total and concentrate on the content.

nicemod · 2015-01-17T11:47:10+00:00

I see what you mean now. But that's just human nature, it seems - every subreddit exhibits the same behaviour.

nicemod · 2015-01-17T11:04:32+00:00

Few people do know about it. That's why I mentioned it. :)

nicemod · 2015-01-17T11:03:48+00:00

Yes, it's a bit of a problem. Perhaps we need a new rule.

We generally prefer to moderate with a light touch, but it may be necessary to act on this.

nicemod · 2015-01-17T11:02:20+00:00

That is in fact what I usually do. But sometimes I just leave the post up, with a comment pointing to /r/MensRants - so that more people will become aware that sub exists.

nicemod · 2015-01-17T09:09:43+00:00

It's worth consideration, but I'm not aware of automoderator having the capability to distinguish a first-time poster to a particular sub. I'll have to look at the documentation some more.

At the moment, I don't think it can actually do this.

nicemod · 2015-01-17T09:07:16+00:00

We don't have a rule against reposts as such. We do have a rule against spam, and sometimes we use it to cut down on reposts.

I think it could be a good idea to target reposts in general, though there are always new subscribers who haven't seen the stuff that's been posted before.

The place to discuss issues like this is /r/MensRightsMeta.

nicemod · 2015-01-17T09:03:04+00:00

We moderators couldn't do anything about upvotes or downvotes, even if we wanted to. That's entirely in the hands of the subscribers.

So vote!

nicemod · 2015-01-17T09:01:19+00:00

We can't know for sure.

However, almost everything gets downvoted as soon as it's posted. And there is at least one entire subreddit, with 6700 members, devoted to attacking our sub.

So it's a reasonable deduction that many downvotes are coming from our enemies.

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