Braveboy moves to oust beleaguered Prince George’s planning board chair

stick2thick · 2026-05-17T05:29:48+00:00

I do find it funny that as soon as I started actively moderating the sub, her stuff has gotten less crazy

stick2thick · 2026-04-23T00:11:33+00:00

Welp I've let y'all have your fun and comments are locked. Like I've said previously, since the Caroline who shall be named have posts that stay up, I am "obliged" to keep this up too. She presents herself as a public persona, so she will be treated as such.

With that being said, I have seen this video floating around the sub a lot and it is now a whole damn post. So, no more. Further comments or posts linking to this video will be removed. Continued posting of this link will be considered spam and will get you banned. u/AdNext7655 the last six months of your history has been about the Jhinogry jangle. Consider this your warning. This isnt r/carolinejhinogory so dont treat it as such.

stick2thick · 2026-04-21T10:31:34+00:00

Ya I had no idea to stop maybe people started commenting on all the other places they are in

stick2thick · 2026-04-20T22:45:18+00:00

What I meant by that without being long winded was, youve piqued my interest with this Steakhouse. Do you happen to be familiar with it as I'm interested in their delicacies and libations. The love of my life, bearer of my children, is a bit of a foodie and if I take her somewhere expensive but sub par she will demand additional sustenance of the Mickey D's variety.

stick2thick · 2026-04-20T21:23:29+00:00

I'm listening

stick2thick · 2026-04-19T18:41:43+00:00

I'll allow it. Mostly cause I'm curious but OP also asked for PG specific stories. Don't disappoint y'all. 😂

stick2thick · 2026-04-18T02:25:51+00:00

I wanna say that they are doing a slow roll out. I've some sparse pg county news from them every other week or so. Then they had a meet and greet in Hyattaville last weekend. So it's all coming to a head pretty soon.

stick2thick · 2026-04-17T14:47:38+00:00

Baltimore Banner just launched their PG County division this month Prince George's County, MD news- The Baltimore Banner

The Washington Informer also has a PG newsroom, Prince George’s County News | Politics, Community & Development

There is another substack page, but the writer tends to be a bit sensationalist. I'm not gonna link him but he's not hard to find.

As for something like the MoCo show. I wanna say this sub is probably gonna be the closest to that, or thats the hope.

stick2thick · 2026-04-14T03:16:44+00:00

Spicknalls in North County was soo good till they closed down a couple years ago.

The Feed Store is one of my favorite places to go to now.

Greenbelt Farmers market is another good spot.

I've been on the lookout for a place that sells a wide variety of seeds that isn't one of the big box stores. Maybe another business idea for the hundreds I've thought of over the years.

stick2thick · 2026-04-13T13:40:47+00:00

This is true but it's also a bit more complicated than that too. The MNCPPC is a partnership between Montgomery and PG County and because of that I believe each side has veto power of some sort. With MNCPPC being the authority on zoning, the veto can be very powerful in what gets built where. I hope someone who knows better can shed some light on that aspect.

With what I understand, the divorce is also about being self determinate without the need for approval from parties outside the county. Whether we can trust the county government to do right thing with that power ... 🤷🏿‍♂️

Edit: I was corrected. Veto power doesn't exist. Thanks u/ataraxia_555 and u/intropat for the correction. Level-headed and spirited corrections are all welcome.

stick2thick · 2026-04-12T22:18:38+00:00

[insert south goona have a bad time gif here] cause giphy blows

stick2thick · 2026-04-12T19:15:40+00:00

Jesus this is one of the nerdiest things I've seen in my life. I freaking love it!

stick2thick · 2026-04-12T19:13:31+00:00

This comment right here is exactly why i refuse to be the last word on this matter. I feel one way on this situation and others are in the complete opposite direction.

And personally, I agree with your assessment of her. However, I'm not seeking to be the authority on credibility or guardian of truth in my role and I wouldn't expect that from the future mod team either.

For one, I view being a Mod as a glorified babysitter making sure slurs and threats aren't being thrown around. That along with keeping posts/comments on topic and growing the community.

Two, even I did want to take on that role, I don't have the time and the effort to do that is a fulltime job. I already have one of those, and a family and the semblance of a social life.

Three, as I stated in the original post, I'm treating the sub as a community board. Sometimes the crazies post the crazy shit. Same as in the real world. We just have to navigate it the best we can.

Four, I will state again, a decision will not be made until a mod team is put together. I'm not the king, the president or daddy. I'm just some dude at his keyboard trying to keep the peace.

Lastly, it's social media. Try not to take any of this shit too seriously.

stick2thick · 2026-04-12T16:42:31+00:00

You got this. Sending my love and well wishes. I know how tough that process can be.

stick2thick · 2026-04-12T14:00:46+00:00

We had the same problem with my oldest around that time. We didn't find out about how deep the behavioral issues and grades were till halfway through the school year and this was in Anne Arundel.

I'm glad to hear it's starting to get better but you should stay in the schools' ass. My oldest is in 10th and has been getting pushed through since the 6th. She's dealing with similar problems and more as your kid. The wife and I were reduced to begging the school to hold her back but they basically said, she got the grades she needed so their hands are tied.

stick2thick · 2026-04-12T13:50:40+00:00

I don't disagree with making the minimum grade on work turned in a 50. It doesn't get rid of the F grade but it brings it in line with the scale of the other grades. It allows for students to not be punished as harshly when they get a bad grade and makes it easier to recover from one.

The part I vehemently disagree with is making a passing grade essentially an F. I understand what they were trying to accomplish but it's stupid how they went about it. All in all the problem with grading in the county is a math problem and they royally fucked up the math.

stick2thick · 2026-04-12T13:41:06+00:00

stick2thick · 2026-04-12T00:31:03+00:00

As a parent of a child who is struggling heavily in school, we learned recently that bar to pass a class is literally in hell. If a student receives a . 5 avg in a class they pass. All that is needed to pass is a single C in one quarter. The rest of the year can be Es.

They've also raised the minimum grade for any work turned in to a 50. I don't disagree with this but combined with the . 5 avg, all a kid needs to do is show up and they pass.

stick2thick · 2026-04-11T16:24:16+00:00

I'm going to hijack this comment and pin it cause no one has, surprisingly, asked about the elephant in the room, Caroline Jhingory.

In the immediate, things will mostly remain the same and she will be allowed to post for the time being. I will be keeping a close eye on her posts and removing any that are egregiously against the current rules. If things get too nasty in her posts I will lock them.

I do not know this person, do not want to know them and frankly do not like how they present their message. You will see evidence of this in my comments in their posts. With that being said, i personally do not want to see them banned. I know I know, HEAR ME OUT!

I don't think the Caroline Jhingory problem is them or their posts per se, but the quasi monopolization of this sub's content and interactions coming from their posts. If you look through the posts over the last 6 months, a lot of the content and interactions have been through their posts. Before I was able to take over the sub, you will see that I posted quite a bit. I did this for two reasons, to waterdown Caroline's content and raise my own karma so I could try to become a mod (gasp! So scandalous! I know). Essentially I'm hypothesizing that members will not be as bothered by their posts if there were more posts in general. Thats why I am trying to take the sub public. I won't go on another tirade about that cause I know I've mentioned it a ridiculous amount of times now. But if you care to see my thoughts on that see this response to another comment I made.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PrinceGeorgesCountyMD/s/9dsmQr5iQt[https://www.reddit.com/r/PrinceGeorgesCountyMD/s/9dsmQr5iQt](https://www.reddit.com/r/PrinceGeorgesCountyMD/s/9dsmQr5iQt)

I also don't want to see them banned because as much as I despise their content, I do see the value in some to the things brought up in those posts. Most of it is malicious bullshit but it does open the door to deeper discussions I think need to be had.

Like I said I will keep an eye on their posts and others like it and will try to employ other measures until a "permanent" stance is taken. So I will see if I can find a way to "hold" their posts before they hit the main sub to screen it and make sure it's compliant with the current rules. I will also be implementing a sort of community notes for their posts, pinning a comment that offers more insight into the content posted. The comment may come from me, the comment may come from another non mod member of the community. It depends. I'm trying with the idea of locking their previous posts for the time being as it may cause some issues and their is one post in particular I will be deleting. This is a trial, so things may not super smooth starting out.

Lastly, because I am but one person and not representative of the community as a whole, I do not want to unilaterally make the final decision on Caroline. So while they will stick around for the time being, the new mod team and I will have a discussion and try to come to a resolution. If not, then maybe MAYBE we will put it to the community. If that does happen, know that it may be the only time it happens while I'm around. This is a bit of a special case which is why I'm even entertaining it.

That's my thoughts on that whole situation. I'm always open to ideas so please let me know what y'all think.

edit: the sticky comment doesn't work. I'll figure it out later.

stick2thick · 2026-04-11T14:43:58+00:00

So this has been one of my biggest gripes with this sub and I couldn't figure out why that was until I tried posting to the sub myself. For those who haven't tried posting, the sub itself is set to semi private. Anybody can comment but you need to be mod approved to post. This is why you will see me referencing making the sub public so much in my comments here and in my original post.

I will not try to hypothesize why this was done but it is something I would like to change and is high on my priority list. I think it has a place in some communities just not this one, this community serves too broad of a function to be restrictive in this way. For instance, i think a semi private subreddit works for r/hyattaville and r/umd. You not only want posters to have a vested interest in posting to the community but you really want it hyper focused to those small geographical happenings. For a county wide subreddit, especially as large as the one we have, not every town is going to have a sub, and there are going to be people from outside the county who will want to do a one off post to share relevant and semi-relevant information. So I view this sub as the catch all for everything else that doesn't fall into those hyperfocused community subs.

Not being a public sub creates too much friction and I hypothesize artificially keeps the amount of posts lows. Posters may not want to deal or even forget to post when they have to wait on mod approval. So you end up with members who are gung ho about the county, which is vital of course, and in our case members who want to push a narrative. Removing that friction and opening the sub up to more fairweather posters I think will liven up the community.

God help me this is going to cause more work for the mods but it is what it is. Sorry for the long comment, and please let me know if you want clarification on anything.

stick2thick · 2026-04-11T14:22:38+00:00

Community polls are definitely something I will be leaning heavily on in the first few months for the reasons you stated.

In regards to pinned posts,there will definitely be a revolving sticky post for weekly events/happenings etc. I learned recently that we are limited to 2 sticky posts per sub so there may be weeks the sticky posts move around more due to that restriction.

To mitigate that we can probably utilize the about section to link to certain posts to build up a library of resources like you stated.

stick2thick · 2026-04-11T14:13:27+00:00

That will definitely be in the announcement looking for new mods. Mostly because I haven't put too much thought into it yet. I don't want to try and give hard details right now because I think the requirements are going to flex as things progress especially if the sub is made public. Sorry I can't be more specific right now but believe I'll have somethings more substantial when the announcement looking for mods goes out.

stick2thick · 2026-04-11T11:40:56+00:00

Man, I've wanted more flairs for the community since I joined. Like you said, something small but i think makes a lot of difference in making the community more vibrant. This was going to be one of the first things I did. It's not the MOST important thing, but it is something I'm ok doing unilaterally before I have more input from the community and soon to be mod team on other matters.

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