This stuff is great for those times when someone you love isn't there, so you just find solace in a song and a drink. You basically summon them through the music.
Lisa Davis46 said:I'm only posting this because this song hit me yesterday, somewhere in a shop downtown, but I can't pin down exactly where or when it happened. I felt so terrible all day that I was practically fainting—honestly, I would have preferred a massive hangover. And it wasn't even from the booze.
Like Puck said—thanks for the find. Don't disappear; I dig your taste and your style. 👍
Parliamentary Elections on the 2020 Virtual Political Forum
A virtual political game mirroring the upcoming parliamentary elections here on Reddit. Think of the Reddit platform as our own sovereign nation, where we elect representatives to manage the state of the Forum.
To found a party, you need a leader, three members, some sympathizers, and a platform of at least 100 words (you decide the exact numbers). Founding a party is free. Anyone can do it just by starting a thread listing the party name, leader, members, and program. A statute is optional.
We’ll open up a new subforum where parties can pitch their platforms and debate with the voters. We'll also have separate threads for leader showdowns regarding the core issues of the Forum.
Some potential party names come to mind—Right to Moderate, I Love Reddit, KGK coalitions (Coronavirus-Music-Literature), Democratic Party (Sapunice-Spirituality-Psychology), Love and Sex for Everyone, Banned and Cardboarded, We Can But We Won't...
It’s a game, to be clear, because we all know there isn't any democracy on Reddit (we use a much more advanced system—enlightened absolutism😬). But even if it's just a game, the results could impact life on the Forum. After all, we have elections for the forum council, the creative department😉, and whatever other bodies we dream up. These elections also serve as an introduction to candidates running for those roles. Keep in mind that thanks to our unique system, even a small, smart party can exert significant influence over how the Forum develops and is run.
How will voting work? Through public polls within each party's specific thread. You can vote for multiple parties. Since election fraud is totally predictable anyway, the actual numbers don't matter—only the names do. 🙂
The game runs until the real national elections are over.
Lay your objections, additions, and comments on me.
Back when I was in second or third grade, we used to call it a lexicon. Every page had one question, followed by about twenty answers from all the kids filling it out. It was basically a little memorialist where everyone got assigned a single page to complete. 🙂
Adam Doyle63 said:I could serve as a low-level consultant for creative matters. I’ve dealt with plenty of moderators. I won't go into detail. I married a fellow forum user. Literally met her right here. This forum is part of my DNA.
I was just a boring, regular user from 2009 to 2014. From 2014 until now, I've been the "new normal"—fun, that is. For myself, obviously. Just satisfying my misogynistic urge to troll with class.
I've only ever picked up one red card because Phiber didn't quite grasp how empty my thread actually was back in the day. But I forgive him. rustydrifter10 gave me the second one, but that was out of love.
Best, Adam Doyle63
Married to a forum user and only one red card? Not exactly a stellar track record. 😁 Real artists usually live on the edge and lead scandalous lives. (And yes, this forum is crawling with "promising" artists. 😁)
Adding to the application: He's easy to work with. Open to suggestions. The driving force behind the buttocks, the audio version... you get the idea.
A series of interviews with interesting Redditors. Even if they aren't interesting, an interview is still something. 🙂 A partial coming out from the shadows... Peeking behind the curtain of online anonymity is always a curiosity grab. 😲 Who’s brave enough? How much are you willing to reveal?
The plan is simple: we use this space to pool our best concepts. Post your idea here first to claim ownership and lock in your credit, 😁 then we can work on it together if you're open to collaboration.
There are two ways to play this: brand new ideas or digging up those old gems buried deep in the Reddit archives. Credit belongs to the people who revive the classics, too. Take the study groups, for instance—originally a concept from a straight shooter, brought back to life by Life on Mars, and now being driven by badger, if I'm reading this right.
I’ll go first and throw out two ideas:
Lexicon. Remember those school yearbooks where you'd answer 20 or 40 random life questions just to have a keepsake? I'll outline how this would work in a separate thread.
The second is reviving a brilliant old thread from 2003 by Sudden Sid—Newsflash corner. It was genius.
Drop your suggestions here.
Comment on specific ideas right here in this thread.
The stuff above is just bureaucracy. This department right here? It’s the heart and soul of this sub-Reddit. We handle everything from starting threads and moderating discussions to pitching new ideas, launching projects, running experiments, and managing content...
We’re launching an FBI Advisory Board so users can actually have a say in how this subforum is run. These advisors will be drawn directly from the community to represent both the users and the platform itself. To be clear: they won't have any moderation tools.
The best candidates? People who truly understand this subforum and are actually passionate about making this place better. Think of advisors as potential future moderators. Everyone else is welcome to act as informal advisors by contributing to the designated threads.
The Board will tackle proposals, user requests, and feedback, while also helping resolve user complaints. Their job is to monitor moderator activity and ensure there's a fair distance kept between the staff and the community.
One major goal for these advisors is to kill the "us versus them" mentality—the old divide between moderators and users. We want to shift toward "all of us together." Moderation should be a service provided to the users, not something imposed on them.
Regarding moderation, here’s how we run things here:
Posts generally won't be deleted; instead, they'll just get moved to a single off-topic thread.
We will only delete posts if they can't be moved to the off-topic thread—things like insults, doxxing, harassment, or anything else on the Reddit prohibited list. We don't want that stuff visible.
We'll use emojis as the fastest way to give friendly warnings. Only yellow ones—meaning no points are issued.
A Ban will only happen if someone keeps disrupting discussions after being warned and ends up making too much work for the Moderation Team. That will result in a partial ban specifically from the FBI. It's easy enough to avoid, and honestly, anyone who gets one is being a massive pain. 😉Let's just say they're annoying.
We’re going to turn the FBI from this pathetic, pointless mess into a place that actually works for the Reddit community.
Below are our initial experimental settings, and yes, they’ll change. If an idea actually sticks, we might roll it out to other subreddits.
This draft for the new FBI applies to all new threads. As for the appeals process and the Moderation Team, everything stays exactly as it was. (Though, hopefully, we can evolve those into something that actually makes sense eventually.)
Note the minor tweak to the long-standing subforum name—it's now Messages, Wishes, and Comments. It needs to capture the spirit of this new FBI 🙂 (The original name was Messages, Wishes, and Greetings, but that acronym didn't work.)
In principle, I try to adapt my vocabulary to the people I’m speaking with—which sometimes involves temporarily switching off certain higher brain functions. You say something once, then perhaps repeat it if the person fails to grasp it—but to what end? Occasionally, an answer is masked within a more nuanced thought, in the hope that there might be at least a glimmer of intelligence on the other side.
Genuine, high-quality discussions are in short supply. Too many people mistake deep analysis for mere bickering. Or they just latch onto trolls. And talking to walls isn't exactly encouraging.
Rachel Jones8 is right regarding the openness of the forum. Personally, I’ve seen instances where someone complained because "some newcomers" were chatting in their thread during the evening. I don't believe the moderators get involved in those specific threads (at least not in the ones I've seen), but even so, it feels unnatural to me when new people are explicitly pushed away from certain topics.
There are far too many insecure, frustrated individuals using this forum as an emotional pressure valve. Perhaps it's a mirror of society—I couldn't say—but it creates a toxic environment. If people aren't valued, they leave. That should be obvious to everyone.
Let's say you're a moderator for a sub-forum filled with these kinds of frustrated, toxic users. What would you actually do?
Garfield said:Here’s a similar case; there was this intense, slightly heated debate over on the food forum about asparagus. I ended up writing this tongue-in-cheek post about me and one of the users fleeing by train from the old US to Italy, accompanied by a Bresson photo.
Later in Italy, we're eating pasta (another legendary shot), but it didn't matter—my entire post was wiped out.
Look, the moderator in question is actually a good person and well-intentioned, just a bit too strict. Honestly? Sometimes I feel like the old police force had more style and tact than today's moderators. I'm not talking about that specific moderator.
What a waste, those were great photos. My guess? The images are too big. They take up the whole screen here. Unfortunately, this Reddit isn't the best place for uploading pictures. The max width allowed is 640 pixels. 😢
Emily Myers8 said:Is this the kind of letter an American moderator should be using?
A moderator shouldn't just be strict; they need to be fair.
Stop projecting such a negative attitude. You're basically manifesting it. If you stay negative, it happens. I choose to project positivity and... well, it's not magic—it just works. 😉 That's how the world works.
Emily Myers8 said:For me, it’s the moderator acting like a big shot under the handle 'handyman'. I was hit with a response meant purely to insult, belittle, shame, and harass me.
"My dear highly esteemed @ Emily Myers8 Gross, I don't want to deal with you. If you really want to go grain by grain, it's even harder to make sense of your nonsense when you lay it out plain and simple. I'd ask you to stop biting our heads off, but honestly, I just can't stay quiet. You're basically making a mockery of this Reddit, causing chaos everywhere and just being a total jerk. It's just gross."
Public responses like that, and these kinds of public arguments between moderators and users, should be banned.
Staying completely neutral, as always, if you managed to squeeze this little masterpiece out of a moderator, then consider it a co-authored work. Congrats to both of you on the creation. You're quite the inspiration, and I had no idea the Handyman was such a gifted writer.
Just as I appeal to the moderators to allow more free expression for the unique characters on this site, I'm asking you, fellow user, not to be so sensitive. On Reddit, sometimes you just have to grow a thicker skin. Besides, he said, "I'd ask you to stop snapping at us." Sounds to me like you would have been a very strict moderator.
Thanks for the heads-up, I actually already missed a few votes. You forgot to include the closing dates, though. Come back and remind us when voting actually ends.
Whoa, slow down there—not a single vote has even been cast in this new round yet. Doesn't matter to me, though; the last round is ancient history.🙂 I hear Joseph's story is top-tier.
Rachel Jones8 said:But how else are you supposed to feel when your posts get nuked for supposedly trolling or flame wars or whatever, when you know damn well you didn't do any of that? Or how do you feel when you suddenly get hit with 130 points, a ban, or a warning, and you have zero clue what was actually wrong with your posts, even though you followed the rules? And so on, and so forth. In my opinion, just because someone finds a post tedious doesn't mean they should get flagged or anything. ...Nobody's forcing anyone to read boring or annoying posts. Just skip them.
And that brings us to the big question. Do we grant absolute freedom to everyone, or do we actually look out for the readers? Because look what this other Redditor is asking:
Garfield said:I think something needs to change regarding how posts and threads get started. It happens all the time—someone writes an interesting, high-quality, or funny post.
You might get great replies, but you also get the exact opposite: a massive string of useless comments consisting of nothing but single words or emojis. Basically, just spamming and cluttering up the thread. There’s a huge number of users who genuinely enjoy posting crap like that, even when they see their mindless comments burying the actual quality content. We could talk about people whining about their neighbors or dead cows, but let's move on.
Why am I bringing this up? Sometimes I have to scroll through 5, 10, 15, or even more posts just to find the next decent thing to read.
The Reddit policy leans toward that second view. Why? Because there are way more readers than writers. The goal is to encourage those who write to be more substantive, more ambitious, and actually stay on the same level as the rest of the discussion.