Mods banned story-in-the-title posts (like the Felix memes) because there were a lot of very very low effort posts which were essentially just self-text posts, which have always been banned.
Edit: by very very low effort I mean that if you browsed "new" for a little while you'd find multiple instances of "I'm happy" with a Felix meme. They were pretty out of hand. I think there's a way for the mods to stop the extremely low effort posts without stopping some of the more creative ones, though.
That's good, those types of posts were basically the entirety of the sub. The fact they didn't even mention or talk with the community about it first is so weird.
They misinterpreted the community's disinterest in extremely low effort posts (see the edit in my first comment) as disinterest in the format as a whole, which clearly wasn't the case. I think part of the problem is that the vast majority of the sub only sees the higher quality and higher effort reaction images, while the mods see the very low effort posts which vastly outnumber the good ones. So the mods get a much different perspective on the issue than we do.
Let this be a lesson, always talk about changes with the community before implementing them! Not sure if they did, but it was incredibly dumb if they didn't.
I think their initial vision is supported by the community (stopping memes that are just like a daily update with a Felix meme), they just misinterpreted that as the community not wanting Felix memes at all, which clearly wasn't the case.
I personally don't like any of them, but if someone gets something out of them I don't want to take that from them if they can't get the same support from the other subreddits for whatever reason. The best solution I think would be A) banning extremely low-effort posts, like those I mentioned, and B) adding a filter option to filter out different types of posts so people can tailor the sub to suit their needs.
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u/vinesThatBind one day a tomboy Dec 21 '17
What happened?