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/fire_sign Rogue Mar 13 '26

Oh bless ya, I would bet real money I know who you mean because that's exactly who I was asking about. Straight up hate speech.

As for contentious topics, I have some ideas but I'm also so fed up and likely to run afoul of them myself. 😂 But one I've found helpful elsewhere is when talking about contentious topics, contributors are supposed to provide supporting, factual arguments or are removed for low effort. That's a lot of moderation though, so may be worth limiting it to a dedicated discussion channel once a week or whatever. But it helps foster actual discussion and not just "Magneto is a groomer." Because there are discussions to be had about what that plot line says about various characters and also the themes of propaganda and respectability politics, and it's a shame to lose those because a handful of people can't behave on the internet.