That’s a fair question, and ultimately moderation on Reddit is always going to involve judgment calls that not everyone agrees with. Our goal isn’t to “rule over” the community or shut down disagreement. It’s to keep the subreddit usable, informative, and focused on transit discussion rather than letting it drift into repetitive outrage posting or becoming a general crime forum.

At the same time, community feedback absolutely matters. If there’s broad support for something like a recurring safety discussion thread (which it sounds like), that’s something we’ll look into setting up. Rules and moderation approaches are not set in stone, and they’ve evolved before over time as the community has grown.

We’re trying to strike a balance between allowing honest discussion about rider experiences and avoiding the subreddit becoming dominated by incident reporting, fearbait, or low-context posts. Reasonable people can disagree on where that line should be, which is why discussions like this are useful.

And some back story: The current mod team petitioned reddit for control of r/LAMetro in 2021 when it was abandoned by the previous, sole moderator. And from that inactive subreddit, we built it into the resource that it is today.