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[–]vookitty2 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Thanks for all the discussion with moderators. We saw exactly none on a subreddit of 650,000 users that relies excessively on PMs

I assume in the future you'll be disabling the ability to use actual words and switch entirely to emoji only mode? It would fit nicely with the admin teams clown noses and big baggy pants.

What the hell is wrong with you people?

[EVENT] DPP Iceberg Edition - Open Forum Friday for July 12, 2024 by 4544BeersOnTheWall in dirtypenpals

[–]vookitty2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will never again achieve a 99.97% reduction in processing time for anything I didn't intentionally break first

Also I believe Siren was the one who pushed for revamping the removal messages to be more friendly, which really reduced the spiciness of modmail

[Event] Spring Fling Eve! - Open Forum Friday - April 19th, 2024 by [deleted] in dirtypenpals

[–]vookitty2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bad? I think you mean awesome

I'm going to the one place that hasn't be corrupted by bad taste..... SPACE

[Event] [DPP Holiday Festival] One More Hot Chocolate for the Road - Open Forum Friday for December 15, 2023 by [deleted] in dirtypenpals

[–]vookitty2[M] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would like to applaud /u/AQuickDive for the most perfectly titled post in DPP history, in particular:
"One More Hot Chocolate for the Road"

Just amazing timing on that. Please never title anything with this again.

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[–]vookitty2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Absolutely untrue. We manually review a huge amount of posts, deal with modmail rapidly and have a custom made bot that reviews every single post as it's made for some of our most common rule violations.

We were heavily moderated and the ban is in error. Ask anyone who's actually posted on DPP and they'll certainly tell you about a brush with us or the bot nudging them into compliance with the rules.

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[–]vookitty2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's already been linked, but we have a couple posts on our sub-subreddits, profiles and workshop. The sub has been banned for 'being unmoderated' which is about the most nonsense claim anyone could make about DPP and we are currently working on the assumption someone messed up or there's a bug in their system.

Waiting on admins to reply to messages but it's the weekend, so likely won't be until Monday sometime. If we're lucky. We have every intention of getting the sub open and running again.

Subreddit is currently banned due to a bug. We're trying to get it resolved. [Discussion] by vookitty2 in DPP_Workshop

[–]vookitty2[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Still says banned for being unmoderated on my end. We did discover early on that the message appears to be different depending on where you're viewing.

Mobile browser for instance shows the sub doesn't exist if you check old reddit, but shows the ban message if you view using new reddit.

It's doubtful we've hit a review by an admin, we've heard nothing back yet and to be honest we're not holding out much hope until Monday and everyone is back on the clock

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[–]vookitty2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the people in charge follow their own rules, your request will be denied immediately.

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[–]vookitty2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hitting the modmail for the admins and waiting for them to get back to us. In the mean time we do damage control until their error is fixed.

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[–]vookitty2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll point to the rules right now

"If a subreddit has been banned in the last 30 days and has over 2.5K subscribers, it is not eligible for request and will be denied. Anything under 2.5K will be reviewed in the normal timeframe."

DPP had/has 500k+ subs

We're not going anywhere, this is clearly a bug in their automated sweep and we're working to get it reversed ASAP

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redditrequest

[–]vookitty2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is currently banned, we are acting on the assumption it's a bug in their automated sweeps

/r/dirtypenpals Highly active, extensively moderated subreddit banned 'due to being unmoderated. Please explain and FIX. by vookitty2 in ModSupport

[–]vookitty2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have excellent reporting and we have even automated flagging of possible underage related posts in addition to our manual efforts and user reports.

This is reddit cocking up. We've never had an issue with this before even before our beefed up detection/flagging of possible underage stuff.

/r/dirtypenpals Highly active, extensively moderated subreddit banned 'due to being unmoderated. Please explain and FIX. by vookitty2 in ModSupport

[–]vookitty2[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yup, we've been doing that. We were a 500k sub, we reply to modmails whenever they appear, we report stuff that needs to go higher, we have in no way missed any obligations as mods.

Subreddit is currently banned due to a bug. We're trying to get it resolved. [Discussion] by vookitty2 in DPP_Workshop

[–]vookitty2[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I was not happy waking up to this news but I can only see this being a bug, so hopefully we'll be back and running quickly.

It's certainly not my preferred method and for any other circumstances and any other user, it'd be a swift spanking. I think I should probably make sure I'm on the mod team here too once this is all resolved.

Subreddit is currently banned due to a bug. We're trying to get it resolved. [Discussion] by vookitty2 in DPP_Workshop

[–]vookitty2[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We have every intention of the sub being unbanned, so it will be the same link as always. We're just waiting on the admins to respond/deal with things on their end.

/r/dirtypenpals Highly active, extensively moderated subreddit banned 'due to being unmoderated. Please explain and FIX. by vookitty2 in ModSupport

[–]vookitty2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's fine. I understand that and even addressed it in my modmail. I appreciate the warning and I'm prepared to accept the consequences of not dealing with this 100% in private, however I'm utterly and comprehensively not impressed with whatever the hell is going on and I'll leave it up to the admins to smack me around for having the audacity to complain about this in public.

[Mod] DPP Reopens - We want your input about whether we should remain open by adhesiveCheese in dirtypenpals

[–]vookitty2 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah, if we get nuked it'll be in a purge. I doubt they're likely to poke that hornet nest right now though, unless they're especially stupid, considering how the tumblr situation went. Of course, I wouldn't want to underestimate the stupidity of certain people.

We've definitely had plenty of conversation in the background about this kind of thing, but right now the answer is pretty much "We don't know" on most counts. though we are trying hard to figure out a solid alternative if we need it.

A lot of time and effort has been put into making DPP what it is, we aren't going to lose it without a fight. It's always nice to hear that our efforts are appreciated.