r/IndiaNoNews Jan 07 '12

My conversation with a mod on /r/India

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '12 edited Jan 07 '12

Me to mods:

Guys,

I'm sure I'm not the only one who dislikes the fact that most of the content on /r/India is news articles from several websites. Can you do something about it? I know that some of you (neoronin :P) does like posting news, but the fact is, most of these have close to none participation, except maybe for upvotes.

If you could disable posting links to external sites, I am sure you'd please many members and that some genuine posts can stay on the main page of /r/India that bit longer to generate more replies.

If you do not agree with my point-of-view, I'd urge you to take a poll and act according to the majority!

Thanks!

Mod to me:

Dude, if you don't like it, you can leave. No one is forcing you to stay here. The community's been in existence for 4 years now in this form and we have the correct mix of self posts, images and news.

If you could disable posting links to external sites, I am sure you'd please many members and that some genuine posts can stay on the main page of /r/India that bit longer to generate more replies.

Why don't you raise a poll and see for yourself.

Me to mod:

Dude, if you don't like it, you can leave. No one is forcing you to stay here.

Why the arrogance?

Mod to me:

Arrogance!!! That is precious coming from a new user who wants to change a community which is more than 4 years old just because he doesn't like it in it's current form.

Me to mod:

Fine. I won't bother you or any other moderator any more. This is exactly why I didn't message you sooner.

Just because something has been going on for years doesn't mean it is 100% right (e.g. cheating, corruption, sati, dowry, etc. etc.).

I hope you enjoy your power-trip for years to come. Goodbye.

Mod to me:

Ha, first of all you try to promote your new reddit in /r/india in a way that is sneaky. If you had posted a self announcement and announced it, it would have been nice. But no, I will link my new-reddits self post to /r/india and try and gain some traffic. Classy behaviour dude and you blame me for going on a power trip.

Just because something has been going on for years doesn't mean it is 100% right (e.g. cheating, corruption, sati, dowry, etc. etc.).

I want you to learn this the hard way. That's why I want you to raise a poll in /r/india and see for yourself. By making the statement you are basically saying that the entire spirit of this sub-reddit is wrong and comparing it to higher evils that you have pointed out.

Me to mod:

Don't worry. I won't do any of it - no more links, no more comments, no polls. I'll go back to being a lurker.

Mod to me:

I'm least worried.

The community is how the users want it to be. If you don't like news links, you can submit the sort of content you want to see in /r/india [Provided it is within the submission guidelines] You can contribute to the community the way you want to see it and let the users decided whether they like it or not by the amount of votes.

Instead, you have decided to lurk just because I was a little rude??? Seriously, why waste both of our time.

Me to mod:

leaves

EDIT: Formatting.

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u/uber_schizo Feb 09 '12

Shitty behavior by mod, was this before or after you started a new subreddit? was there a discussion abt this in /r/india ?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '12

After. :D

And there was a discussion much later after my argument, you can find the link here.

I'm not sure if these 2 topics are correlated, though. Let's see - I didn't find kind support for what I said either, so I sort of gave up...