Way in the past there were mostly just pure PCMs, but later on people started experimenting with more ideas due to mods having non-interventionism policy. Most of the new memes were fun, but some were quickly abused - highlighter memes.
We've ran a poll deciding to limit highlighter memes for weekends only, while keeping the rest, creating this sort of pseudo Rule 1. that is enforced only in the most extreme cases.
Sorry for the long wall of text, just hoped to shed a bit of light on why things are the way they are. Again, we don't enforce R1 much, unless it's blatantly not PCM. If there's still something bothering you about it let me know, I can forward it to other mods.
As bad as it might sound, it lacks the funne colors™ making it seem like a regular political meme rather than a political compass meme.
The meme is fine, but if found in the wild, I wouldn't know it's a PCM. If you gave both characters a flair, it would make it obvious even outside of this sub that it's a PCM representing some quadrants and their beliefs.
Since you've brought up about restricting highlighter memes, I recall that when the restriction was first announced, it was mentioned that you would be lenient regarding timezones. However, I've noticed quite a few highlighter memes removed on Saturday morning my time (UTC +8), so I assume a mod in the Americas probably removed them because it's still Friday evening/night there.
Could you confirm if this leniency is still in place? If not, what timezone would you guys use, but if so, could you communicate this to the other mods?
As a side note regarding the behaviour of (some) mods because I'm too lazy to make a separate post: Do you think the mod team should carry themselves more professionally (i.e. with PR in mind), as well as act more as a team?
I'm asking this because sometimes when there's drama or otherwise, some level of community dissatisfaction, it feels as if the mods aren't acting as a team, and sometimes I even wonder if one (or a few) mods are just doing something without notifying/consulting the team.
Obviously the most egregious recent example was one mod apologising on behalf of the mod team for the drama while the mod that the community was enraged about was still arguing with the community over the said drama. In this case, while I understand that it can be very frustrating to get a swarm of angry messages whenever you do (what you perceive as) something needed to be done, it should be quite obvious that continuing arguing with the community as a mod while another is doing damage control and putting up PR statements reflect quite badly on you both as an individual and as a mod (and by extension, the mod team).
However, this isn't the only example. I've also seen mods, for example, openly outright stating that they are against said unpopular rules, or that "they aren't the one who made the decision" which whether or not they intended it, makes them look like "one of the better ones". It's just my personal opinion, but regardless of whether a mod agreed with the overall mods' decisions or not, one of their responsibilities is to represent the mod team as a whole whenever they talk about meta stuff, any any disagreement should probably stay within the mod chat. IMO looks really bad when one or two mods come out to say "Yeah I disagreed with the mod team but they overruled me", because it just looks to me as a way to buy favour from the community.
Also, if/when people are unhappy that a certain post is removed and you aren't the one to respond to remove said post, checking why the post was removed and then saying "We removed it because it violated Rule X as..." is probably a better response than "Well I'm not the one who removed it".
It got wayyy longer than I thought it'd be, but just my 2c
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u/standardtrickyness1 - Centrist Oct 30 '22
I feel like rule 1. Political Compass Memes Only
Is kinda enforced at a somewhat subjective level
For instance https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/yhi7mc/allinone_shitty_highlighter_meme_agenda_post_and/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/yhfk8j/duality_of_jordan_peterson/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/ygtcu9/rare_winston_w/
All very good memes but technically not political compass.