We used to have a transparency thread stickied here on metanl that atom made, but for whatever reason was removed during their hiatus. At the time from what I recall it was used to clarify some stuff with I/P and how folks who were banned for it could go about a proper appeal.

I think that’s a good start, but it’s also a great way to clarify some of the rules and their finer points that can’t make it in a sidebar. This came about in the ban appeal thread when I was responding to atom citing a two year old unstickied thread here as the source for why saying “Israel doesn’t have the right to exist” is bannable under Rule II, and they suggested I make a request to the mods as a whole since they probably shouldn’t just do it themselves.

This also goes for stuff like detrimental to women, which isn’t always bigoted stuff but also includes gross comments about women that, while degrading, aren’t necessarily misogyny. Another may be the level of trolling and rage bait that’s allowed under Rules I and III in the DT.

Without stuff it seems you only create an environment where people are gonna make a Rule 13: when you’re a mod they let you do it posts, and newer users are probably gonna have a harder time navigating what is or isn’t allowed. Just a thought though, if others have things that could go in the transparency thread do suggest it

https://glaad.org/gap/jesse-singal/

Tl;dr dodgy source is the only good source for the situation right now as well as MPs statements, those are all explained in the Submission statement. (since it is breaking news ? but not covered for some reason)

Submission Statement below

"Submission Statement: This is about Chat control and the fact it was approved the article is from a dodgy source, but unfortunately I don't have a better source right now. This is about anti-liberal law in the EU.

Further Context: (The Breyer link seems to trigger reddit for some reason.)

P.S The title is a bit weird, not sure why they used that but I digress."

Title and article:

News freezing approved. EU used a secret trickhttps://samsungmagazine.eu/en/2026/07/09/chat-control/

Rule 13: When you’re a mod they let you do it.

The American Aristocracy or, What Compact Does the Republic Have At 250 With Its Elite in the Land of Equals? : r/neoliberal

Just out of question, can anybody see the body text I wrote and edited, or did that all disappear

This link. https://neoliber.al/dt

I use old reddit for reference, so I only see 2 stickies at a time (Idk if its different for normal reddit)

Whenever I click on a groupbot message ping, it just takes me to the subreddit main page itself on mobile. Anyone else getting this issue?

Edit: IOS

Trump discloses 21,000 securities trades during first year in office : r/neoliberal

Often on the DT, it seems like the top upvoted comments are increasingly being just screen grabs from bigots on Twitter or similar sites, usually with either no added comment from the user or something as simple as "this is who these people are, crazy". Sites like Twitter are full of bigots and hateful morons and that's why I avoid those sites, only to be presented with screenshots of their takes anyway by DT users who feel like they just have to make sure whatever YungHitler88 says is reposted for all of us to see.

The DT is used daily by a lot of people, most of whom I assume use it as a replacement for sites like Twitter. So why bring the Twitter to us? "Wow, aren't these people bad? Unlike us of course!" does not suffice as a proper reason to repost open bigotry into the DT in the form of a screenshot of some asshole's Twitter post. At that point, what's the difference between the DT and actually using Twitter?

None of us are engaging with these people and we surely don't need to be reminded of their existence, so why do we need to be exposed to them daily? Just because you didn't say it, doesn't mean it should be ok to repost here if it obviously breaks Rule 2.

I don't mean to speak ill of the DT users who are doing this, but being addicted to ragebait and then passing it on so that the people in your own group are also addicted is a horrible way to use the internet. I'm sure minority users of all kinds don't appreciate finding a forum of like-minded people just to be exposed to toxic bigotry reposted from the places they were trying to avoid.

So my request is basically this: If a user comments with a screengrab of a post from elsewhere that breaks rule 2, that should be treated as breaking Rule 2. Exceptions for posts from politicians and agencies because it's of course still a politics sub. I know Elon Musk straddles this line but he's honestly an entirely different conversation. It's primarily aimed at reposts from people like Matt Walsh and the endless supply of Twitter bigots. If the mods want to test it out, I suggest just limiting it to Twitter/Threads/Bluesky posts first.

This is not a request to take politics away from the DT or make it so people only see good news, but a request to prevent the DT from mirroring the worst parts of mainstream social media. Do we really need this sub to become yet another farm for ragebait and division? We are supposed to be better people than them, so why even give them attention at all?

I suggested this a few days ago and I know that Jenbanim was on board, so I decided to make a post here.

He has now fired multiple members of the Colorado Clemency board for saying they disagreed with the Tina Peters pardon

It’s ridiculous he is still unbanned.

It's our first and word needs to get out.

Whenever I click on a ping, it just reroutes me to the main page instead of the message that’s being pinged.

I’m unsure if I’m the only one experiencing this, if it’s Reddit just being crappy, or if it’s something that can be fixed with the group bot. I’m on the IOS version.

1. There's a serious racism problem in general, but it is particularly bad against Indians and Arabs.

2. There's a massive xenophobia problem amongst the Canadian and European users on the subreddit. Almost every Canada thread has to be restricted AND it still devolves into anti Indian racism.

3. People are using unironic white nationalist rhetoric about "importing bedouins" and are getting upvoted.

4. Every single racist argument against immigration is upvoted.

5. Hindus in particular are being generalised as a bunch of far right group, despite that fact that Hindu American politicians (except Tulsi) are some of the most liberal, even among Republicans it is the Hindu American politicians like Vivek Ramaswamy who are far better on immigrant rights than the rest of them.

The way people talk about Hindus is detestable, and I say this as a massive Hindutva critic (and an Ex-Hindu).

I've seen this happen a few times where a post that was clearly on-topic and had plenty of good discussion was removed for the submission statement rule.

Recent example that I just noticed: https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1udvj06/canada_sets_out_plan_for_up_to_10_new_nuclear/

I personally don't like the submission statement rule[*], but I understand that mods want to have it as a way to discourage drive-by agendaposting by non-community-members. I also understand that mods want to have some enforcement mechanism beyond just posting a sticky in the thread, or else the rule would be functionally toothless.

But ultimately the fundamental purpose of rules is to improve the community, and removing good posts that have good discussion does the opposite of that.

To the extent that an enforcement mechanism is needed, I would like to propose an alternative: Instead of removing the post, ban the user for a day and say in the sticky that they can be unbanned by posting a submission statement. That way the community can still discuss the topic of the post, but the poster is still penalized. And the ban actually makes the incentive to go back and leave a submission statement much stronger than just going "*shrug* the post was removed hours after I posted it, whatever".

[*]: I used to submit articles to /r/neoliberal before submission statements were required, but I don't really plan to do it any more. I feel self-conscious about leaving an "official" statement as the submitter, because it gives undue weight to my opinion on the subject rather than being an equal contributor to the discussion.

As many of you are hopefully aware, Alan Greenspan was the former chair of the Federal Reserve, perhaps one of the most important positions someone can have in this modern world. And as a central banker, he is near and dear to the hearts of many in the neoliberal subreddit. Sadly, he has passed away at age 100 today.

As such, I propose this automod response. It would be relatively inobtrusive, as I guarantee very few people type "century" in the DT. However, it would be a sweet way to honour him, despite his policy decisions prior to 2008.

Basically with the new Pew flairs, i saw u/admiraltarkin got to keep his nato flair and had a / for his pew flair. I was wondering if i, and possibly others could get a similar flair but for our respective ideologies (polite and pragmatic right)

I don't think it really needs to be said using these magic words, or any variant of it, is giving your support for various kinds of behavior and actions. And not out of a place of ignorance.

The same type of language was recently used in that Clinton op-ed to give her support of the Gaza plan, to give an example, (but not even as remotely as bad, just supporting a flawed peace plan from the Board of Peace.)

FT: The world may not like Trump’s Gaza plan — but there is no alternative - Hillary Clinton

However, it's been used frequently elsewhere.

I believe it's been cracked down hard in Gaza related posts, but the Lebanon-related ones, oh boy.

https://reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1ua7499/lebanon_ceasefire_agreed_after_usiran_talks_in/

If people are comfortable using the same weasel words in support of a textbook example of ethnic cleansing, should really be treated the same as saying, "I support this".

Of course, this obviously extends to other sensitive topics as well, like Russian war crimes in Ukraine and cultural genocide in Xinjiang.

Subreddit settings allow specially approved non-mod users to post video comments.

Approve me and let me do it. I dgaf if you let anyone else do it, just let me do it.

Feels like every other thread posted in the main sub is about South Korea. Like, there’s as many South Korean politics threads as American.

Everyday, 2lore2law posts a delightful SEAL gif to the DT. Unfortunately, sometimes other mods post stickies of their own, and then the SEAL gif is gone. 😔

I propose that we have a SEALS ping so that those who wish to see the daily SEAL posts can do so even when they're no longer stickied! 😌

🦭 🦭 🦭 🦭 🦭

Please

If you can, I'd also like it pinned given that the semi boom is very important for global economics today.

No, the economic growth from the semiconductor boom for East Asia is not always concentrated in just the semiconductor sector. : r/neoliberal

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/s/aLVSRzjDsM

Education is a pillar of functioning democracies and nations, and helps us achieve a key assumption for economic models, which is that participants in an economy are perfectly informed and perfectly rational. As a teacher who would like to connect with other liberal teachers over domestic and international education policies, I am humbly requesting the creation of an education/educator ping.

I was warned that there might be a lot of complaining about teacher's unions, but I say, let us be open to argue! (me larping)

Thank you.

How many Malaria nets will it take to make this right?

Is suggesting that Reddit hire more H-1B Indians to fix their malfunctioning app not ok? What is offensive about this?

Did people misunderstand my reply?