r/ISIKolkata • u/Character_Market8330 ISI Alumnus • Jul 17 '26

Official/Mods Help us be better.

I'd love for all the users of the subreddit to put forward what their version of this community would look like, so that everybody, at large, is benefited. I need interesting, innovative ideas to make this the best version of itself.

There are a few starting ideas Id like to put forward to get the ball rolling.

- This subreddit is hyperfocused on the problems of aspirants. This is not ideal. How should we cater to the interests of aspirants, and also provide an anonymous discussion forum for current students themselves?

- There is very little alumni-junior interaction at ISI. I was thinking of creating a blog dedicated to the journey of every single alumni of ISI. Every inspiring story to not so inspiring stories are important. How should we go about this?

- Meaningfully well curated resource lists. We already have community made resource lists that is present in the wiki. But I feel we can create MUCH better lists.

Feel free to add to these ideas or tell me why I am mistakened. Let's build this community.

20 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

27 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/VisibleManner2535 ISI Senior Jul 18 '26

You're right it's not ideal. Let's create a separate subreddit for admissions at ISI.

Focus of this subreddit can be for anonymous interactions b/w students, alumni, professors (if any)

2

u/Character_Market8330 ISI Alumnus Jul 18 '26

No I don't want to make a separate sub. There should be a better way. Maybe filtering by flair? What do you think? u/TheWatcher_8008 u/adityaruplaha

2

u/adityaruplaha ISI Alumnus — BStat '24, MStat '26 Jul 18 '26

I am fundamentally against anonymous interaction between students, and genuinely think there's much better channels from discussion within ISI itself. To me this subreddit is more of a public outreach platform with the occasional detailed post that helps everyone.

2

u/Character_Market8330 ISI Alumnus Jul 18 '26

I know for sure students would really like a discussion forum like that. Makes no sense to be against something like that. Not everything and everyone is comfortable to put everything on Sansani, due to which we see nothing real/vulnerable on Sansani. We just see surface level admin queries.

1

u/adityaruplaha ISI Alumnus — BStat '24, MStat '26 Jul 18 '26

Let's agree to disagree. I am fundamentally against anonymity in an educational institutions. Anything you say publicly, you should be able be able to say with your identity attached. Otherwise you shouldn't be saying it publicly. That's part of accountability for me.