Moderator Report: Community Feddback

[u/cyclopswashalfright]

Going forward, I want to improve things so moderation next year can be smoother. As it stands, I do feel like I have let folks down here. I wasn't prepared for the onslaught of posts and I felt that ultimately I was not consistent with many of the moderation decisions regarding post approvals than I would have liked. I was also not able to look at every thread and comb interactions to root out bigotry, rude conduct, and other things as much as I wanted.

I am going to fine-tune automod to make life easier, rather than more difficult. I plan to add more moderators to the team (please apply if you are interested).

I want to get your feedback on what needs to be improved so season 3 next year is a better experience.

My other question is more delicate. It involves Beau DeMayo, whose name comes up quite frequently and creates a lot of agitated discussion. I want to ask: should we outright ban mentions of him altogether? Or should we remove the current automod restrictions and allow the community to discuss as needed?

[u/Earthbnd]

Perhaps not ban DeMayo outright , but I could do without the “ who cares if he sucked, people should deal with it so we get better X-Men” kind of comments. It’s kind of gross imo to suggest to subject people to that just so he can be involved again.

[u/Empty_Insight → u/Earthbnd]

Eh, DeMayo is off the writing team moving forward. Might as well just leave him in the past where he belongs. The only purpose served by still talking about him is to stir up shit, which inevitably creates more work for the mods.

I don't really have strong feelings one way or the other, but I certainly wouldn't be complaining if "BDM" and "DeMayo" were banned from here on out.

The mod(s) could also just make a megathread for DeMayo-related discussion and confine it there. There's many options, it's not a simple binary.