Salutations, fellow doomers, sluggard uncles, Insta-cooler kids, and snapchat filtered sisters!
We're about to reach a million users here, and like all good things that go mainstream and achieve widespread popularity, this community is like a big, bustling train on fire, moving ahead at full steam toward its doom.
We're aware that many of you are new here, so some of you might still have to get the hang of the rules, and that's completely understandable. There are others too, who simply can't be bothered to read them... that's understandable as well, not everyone has the time for that... or the patience, as a matter of fact...
Now, onto the thorny issue of content and main page feed. Well, let's put it this way... It's taken a dip! A big dip... even bigger than the Big Dipper!
People are flairing posts incorrectly, giving them improper titles, spamming posts all over the place, and even cross-posting the same content from here... Heck, when we remove such posts and explain why, many of you come arguing in the mod mail, saying, "It had nice ratio of upvotes, plenty of people commented and that's why the post should stay."
...Brother, you're on reddit. Need I remind you that upvotes and downvotes can age like milk and, therefore, are not some universal truth to be relied upon. There are plenty of other points to be made here, but the gist is that upvotes and downvotes go out the window when the content violates our community rules.
And then there's the fact that we're sitting at over 700k users (as of the time of writing this post), we're much more of an easy target to trolls and propagandists than before. But we've combated it before in the past, and we're combating it even now.
So here is what's going to happen. We'll deal with the whole trolling stuff, as we have continued to do so, but you guys seriously need to stop acting like it's facebook, twitter or instagram.
You want to post your opinion or something, sure! You all are welcome to do so -- but give your posts a suitable flair and title them properly (not those 'another day in Pakistan!' or other clickbaity titles like 'this is horrible!'). Otherwise, it'll be removed. Same with news and claims, source them properly with credible links.
Also, we do not mind AI formatted posts, or information that might be verified with AI tools ( we would always prefer you cite primary sources)...but posts like 'Whats your favorite thing about Pakistan' with an attached AI image just do not add anything to the conversation and are very obvious attempts at farming karma. We understand that you might've spent a lot of time making that cool-looking AI image of a futuristic-looking Pakistan but that does not mean we will automatically approve or allow it. It clogs up the timeline and just generally looks ugly (sorry). Low-effort AI posts will almost never be approved, others might be at our discretion.
Lastly, I'd like to say that we've noticed repetitive anti establishment posts. Now, we're not saying don't post about establishment, but when 10 people post the same thing instead of keeping things in comments, we end up with same, tired, low effort doom and gloom posts. Come on, we're not supposed to compete with the 9 o'clock news, people.
Once again, we're not affiliated with any political party or the establishment, so stop with the labelling... Or else, we might as well pick a lane and start earning a few bucks on the side ;)
Anyhoo, we will be restarting the Rishta threads next week (No, we're not bringing rishtas, ya filthy animal!) and hopefully, we'll be introducing a weekly promotional thread in the near future as well.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Hope you all have a good day. Pakistan Zindabad!
