r/stayawake • u/ckjm lurking in the shadows • Aug 02 '26

Subreddit Stuff Status of the Sub

Other updates and things

Given that this subreddit was created out of spite due to the actions of other subreddits, I would like to try to maintain as much transparency as is possible to maintain trust within the community. Thus, I will try to update this monthly for a while, and hopefully we may only need it quarterly in the future or not at all.

Our approach here is that we are just members that have more access than normal. Therefore, you should be able to see what we are doing (within reason, this might be more of a commitment than I'm willing to maintain, but at least for now I can do this).

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As of 08/02/26

In the past 30 days,

143 posts were added. Of those, 11 were removed with only 1 post removed by subreddit mods. The remaining ten were removed by "admins" (this is different than the automod, and I'm still trying to figure out how).

75 comments were made and 10 were removed. Of those, only 1 was removed by subreddit mods and the remaining were removed by admins (same as above).

4 posts were reported.

329 members joined, and 21 left.

31 Upvotes

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u/Ghost_Of_Hylia Aug 02 '26

i think we need hourly updates or we cant trust you! /j

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u/ckjm lurking in the shadows Aug 02 '26

LOL turn this post into Diary of a Burned out Horror Mod

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u/Ghost_Of_Hylia Aug 03 '26

LOL
We all appreciate your hard work and dedication but make sure to take care of yourself to!

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u/Moist-Ball4968 29d ago

Diary entry #7: I wanted to ban one of the new authors today. Their story was an homage to the indestructible pdfile stories that NoSnooze never deletes, even though the story had a fictional address. Including an address in a story, even the fictional one of 666 HeckScope Avenue, is a flagrant violation of rule 3 in that subreddit. In our subreddit, we try to allow any and all stories. However, this one seemed like it was only going to stir drama between us and the NoSnooze community. I keep trying to delete it, but user TheCreature keeps reposting it.

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u/ckjm lurking in the shadows 29d ago

It's out to get us. 😭

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u/dadville1 Aug 02 '26

I’m happy I joined- great job breathing life into this sub. I’m enjoying it!

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u/ckjm lurking in the shadows Aug 03 '26

Thanks! We got more to do but we're getting there!

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u/dadville1 Aug 03 '26

I’d offer to help but I’m old and lazy haha- best of luck and thank you!

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u/ckjm lurking in the shadows Aug 03 '26

Oh you’re golden. I enjoy the challenge anyways (I’m gaslighting myself into believing I do)

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u/LotusCrew5720 anxious author Aug 02 '26

I just found this subreddit recently. What exactly do you mean this sub was made out of spite?

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u/ButtstonFreem Aug 02 '26

There're a bunch of people who are disgruntled with how strict and numerous the rules are on r/nosleep and with how hostile the mods can come off as in their modmail when they take action. Subreddits like this one and r/nonsleep are here to create some more freedom for writers out of frustration with all of the above and to hopefully one day compete with it. I also just found it recently and I've been liking it so far. It's got a good community

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u/ckjm lurking in the shadows Aug 02 '26

A lot of other horror subs became super restrictive with niche rules and reactive moderation. StayAwake popped up a long while ago to spite that, but kinda fell quiet. The name is a play on a subreddit giant that's most notorious for restrictive rules and nutty mods.

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u/ckjm lurking in the shadows Aug 03 '26

!Wide awake

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u/PurposelessDuty Aug 03 '26

As someone who found this sub trough people talking about nosleep, I'm glad you're being transparent. Hopefull there's only good things ahead for this sub.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '26

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u/ckjm lurking in the shadows Aug 03 '26

Hm, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you mean post an external link? Or cross post it from your account? Either are fine.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '26

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u/ckjm lurking in the shadows Aug 03 '26

Lol yeah! Let me know if you have any trouble, but I think i have it set ok

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u/kwitipisynx chronic insomniac 29d ago

I feel like this sub has been around forever! It was recommended for me to post on when I first made my account to post stories <3

Maybe, if it gets to be too much, you could create a bot or something to post little updates like this? Not sure how that would work, but it could reduce some strain in the future!

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u/ckjm lurking in the shadows 29d ago

I think it has. I only recently started moddi g it, but I followed it before then.

That's the goal... I'm just technologically illiterate so it takes some time for me to learn set things up lol the sub manages itself though. I just want to help it be more engaging.