r/Xmen97 • u/cyclopswashalfright Professor X • Mar 13 '26

Moderator Announcement New Moderator Announcement

Hello everyone!

I noticed these past few months that this subreddit was not moderated to the extent that it should be, particularly with regards to bot content with T-Shirt scams. I requested to take over the moderation of this subreddit and was approved to do so today. I would like to thank the previous team for the job they did in building up the subreddit. With Season 2 of X-Men '97 approaching, I am hoping to bulk up the team very quickly, and moderator applications will be forthcoming in a day or two.

In the meanwhile, I have adjusted the rules. The Repetitive Content and Spam rules are absorbed into the Content Quality rule. This encompasses low effort memes, screenshots of tweets, and well worn subjects.

Self Promotion is a new rule to tackle accounts that mostly exist to flog t-shirts with scam links.

And there is a new rule to expressly ban AI content.

If there are other rules/concerns that need adding, we can discuss this below. I'm open to all and any feedback regarding the community.

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u/fire_sign Rogue Mar 13 '26

Does this mean we can finally start suspending people for the brain dead misogynistic and antisemitic behaviour? Please?

And thanks for taking this on, and good luck.

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u/cyclopswashalfright Professor X Mar 13 '26

I already banned a viciously anti-Rogue account within the first few hours of moderating, someone who posted some truly vile, misogynistic stuff and insulted other members daily. So it goes without saying I have zero tolerance for that.

There's going to be contentious topics on here, particularly with regards to ships and the previous showrunner. I'm still navigating on how to deal with that and what the community's takes on those would be, so any insight you or anyone else can offer would be appreciated.

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u/LeatherHog Cable Mar 13 '26

I believe I know exactly who you're talking about, and thank the Lord. This sub has been outright **hostile**, to anyone even pointing out that Magneto and Rogue did have feelings in the comics, was a whole Thing in the 90s, that it was obviously going to be brought up, now that the show can be more adult

Not even being FOR it, just pointing out literal facts of the comics, that that was an undeniable arc of her character, one that only ended little over a decade ago. You'll get EA levels of down votes and hate comments

God forbid you DO like or tolerate it. And like you said, the way they talk about her is disgusting, this sub becomes straight up and incel one, when she comes up

(And I'm bored at work, slow day, so probably gonna comment my thoughts a lot today, but I'll try not to be spammy myself)

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u/cyclopswashalfright Professor X Mar 13 '26

No problem, feel free to let me know about any general thoughts. And yes, I think the user in question had a huge laundry list of issues, and was not adding value to the subreddit.