Comment · Mon, March 12, 2018 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
This is a nootropics group. Stop w/ this other BS
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Racetam_junkie · 185 points
This will be real quick, and I'm sure, polarizing. Comment however you want, but if you're upset about this post, chances are, I'm talking to you.
* This subreddit is primarily a nootropics subreddit. Meaning: racetams, afinils, choline sources, acetylcholine modulating nootropics, NGF modulating compounds, nootropic herbs, etc.
* More and more, though, over the last two years, it has become a meeting place and discussion room for doing STUPID SHIT, like combining amphetamines with shit like Cabergoline. I have no idea why moderation allows bullshit like this.
* Reiterating: this is a nootropics group. Keep your posts relative to actual nootropics. Take offense or not (I definitely do not care), but keep your wacky druggy talk to some other subreddit, where people have to play the game of continuing to take rogue pharmaceutical compounds because they've relied on chemicals to make them feel normal, because of their continuous bad decisions in life.
Too harsh? Good. I'm probably talking EXACTLY TO YOU.
We need to clean this fucking subreddit up. It's become a druggy infested cesspool of discussion about EVERYTHING BUT TRADITIONAL NOOTROPICS.
Racetams. Afinils. Choline so…
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NoProposal · 1 points
Two things that seem sensible from my point of view
Introduce a mandatory waiting period before posting. /r/steroids only lets users post new threads when they have been active for 90 days prior in the subreddit. /r/steroids sees a lot more users, so a 90 day ban would be unreasonable for us, but a shorter amount, even three days could stop a lot of the really stupid and dangerous posts
Doing a rewrite of the rules and posting them in the top of the subreddit. (/u/fatmoocow)[https://np.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/75seo8/we_need_to_stop_this/do9bmlu/] gave some sensible guide lines and I think these deserve to be promoted more. On rule list in the header, another one in the sidebar, a CSS entry in the posting page would all be good. Also, some stanard texts for mods which could be posted to address specific concerns like
"/u/IMixCocaineWithPhenibut, your post was removed because it violated our rules on
- senseless risk taking
- usage for recreational purposes
- illegal street drugs"
(street drugs, what is allowed and not, is another debate, let's not settle it here)
I think it's just a shame that we don't notice you mods more often. Because your needed. Really.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
We already have a mandatory waiting period. We just don't publicize it, so spammers can't reliably skirt it. Also, /r/steroids has way less subscribers than we do, and way less people viewing at any one point in time. When we were smaller like they are, the volume of shitty posts was a lot less. We also manually approve posts from new users if they seem legitimate.
Also, you don't see all the moderation that happens in the background. So it might look like nothing is happening, but we remove way more posts than people realize. The argument could be made that we tighten things down even more, but it's not the free-for-all that some people think it is. We are already removing countless posts and comments every single day.
We also do have standard texts for why certain things are removed. Again, you just don't see them because the posts are removed before the comments are posted.
I think the main argument is over the definition of what the line should be in deciding to censor a post, or let a discussion happen. We already do everything that most people suggest. They just disagree with where we draw the line. We err on the side of not censoring, and allowing discussion to happen, but it seems many people would rather us err on the side of caution, and curate things more.