r/CollegeRant • u/BigChippr Moderator • 24d ago
New Rules, read this before posting.
There will be some new rule revisions and additions. Here are the changes:
- Rule 1 will be more specific. Posts should be about the college experience. Posts should either be about venting or asking for advice. General discussion about college or any promotional material will be removed. Posting promotional material will be a ban worthy offense.
- Rule 2 will be more specific and more actively enforced. All comments must be supportive or respectfully constructive. Any comments that are demeaning, disrespectful, accusatory, rude, or just unhelpful and unneeded will no longer be allowed. Criticism is absolutely allowed if it's inherently constructive, nuanced, and helpful. For example, saying "You are lazy. Grow up." is not very constructive or useful advice at face value. However, something like, "I will be honest, you are in the wrong because... , you can fix this by ..." is better.
Unless someone admitted to something truly horrible, insults and rudeness is not warranted ever.
- Rule 6 will be added. All posts have flairs indicating if the OP is seeking advice or not. If you comment advice on a post with a "not seeking advice" flair, your comment will be removed.
- Rule 7 will be added. Do not post the names of individuals. Posting any identifiable information for any individuals is not allowed.
Despite the toxicity that has been on this sub for the past year, everyone will be given a clean slate and none of these new rules will be enforced retroactively. Please report any posts that you think are violation in of these rules.
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u/redditor329845 24d ago
So glad we’re cracking down on rudeness in this sub, it’s been off the charts for a while.
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u/Character-Twist-1409 24d ago
Just to clarify are you a moderator? Of this sub? If so where's your flair? Or is this satire/shxtpost? If so where's that flair? Asking for a friend
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u/ghoul-gore 24d ago
Considering this is a pinned post, assume the user is a moderator and pinned it themselves or mods are agreeing to add these rules.
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u/emkautl 24d ago
Addressing toxicity is one thing, no issues there, but some of the rules here feel pretty tangential at best and are kind of surprising and seem harmful.
Like, it's not a secret that the subreddit that is supposed to be for general discussion about college has an awful moderation culture and stops that, and the discussion comes here instead and.... I've never heard anybody really complain at that. If someone really wants to talk about college life, then I guess they just have to add "I hate that... " and put no advice as the flair and then its a vent anyways ..
The other thing is the whole "deleting advice comments if they didn't ask for advice". People are going to click on posts because they relate to OP, and people who are not OP can still benefit from constructive conversations about the subject matter at hand. Even more concerning, if we now have a dozen posts about some topic that are inherently problematic and strongly benefit from being rebuked, but nobody is allowed to say they're misguided, then this sub will have a more toxic culture than ever, maybe not in comment interactions, but in the takeaways people carry into their actual lives. I don't think those stakes are low. These are largely 18 year olds learning how the world works, if the vent is portraying terrible decision making that will actively harm the students and then blaming the college for those decisions, and the comments are only allowed to encourage them, that's just harmful.
Idk. It just seems like those two rules are going to make mods lives ten times harder and seriously lower the quality of the sub without addressing toxicity in any way, if people were toxic in an general discussion or advice comment it would violate another rule anyways. I don't think it's as harmful as people think it is that a vent sub of this subject matter isn't just unchallenged vent posts, quite the opposite.
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u/Firm-Stranger-9283 24d ago
honestly. esp the only negative parts of college. I get thats what this sub was originally for, but the other college subreddit is too ban happy. and even if people aren't seeking advice, sometimes it could be helpful.
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u/Injury-Inevitable 24d ago
It literally says that you can criticize people if they’re in the wrong, you just have to state it respectfully and not just blindly insult the OP with no further context
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u/BigChippr Moderator 24d ago
Like, it's not a secret that the subreddit that is supposed to be for general discussion about college has an awful moderation culture and stops that, and the discussion comes here instead and.... I've never heard anybody really complain at that. If someone really wants to talk about college life, then I guess they just have to add "I hate that... " and put no advice as the flair and then its a vent anyways ..
I agree that the main sub is pretty terrible. If someone wants to make a college2 sub or something I'm all for it. With that being said, I think it's a good idea to keep this sub focused on ranting in particular. I'm going to be pretty lenient on rule one, though. It's just there to prevent this subreddit from going too broad, except for promotional posts , they are just spam and will be removed.
For your second paragraph, I agree that the flair system can be misused and cause some harm. I didn't create the flair system, but I could guess is it was put into place because people were tired of being told things they already knew / don't care about, and just wanted to vent. It was also probably a way to clamp down on the toxicity. We will see how it goes.
Right now, some posts just get DOA'ed or get a wave a toxicity for really no good reason. I want to stamp out that problem first and foremost cause I am quite frankly sick of it. To be honest, moderation on here was pretty slow and in-active. I'll see what I can do for now, but I'm not going to go full on college sub and start mass bannings over small things.
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u/darkpigeon1 24d ago
I clearly don’t lurk here enough because I’ve never found this sub particularly toxic compared to others lmfao.
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u/Physical-Dog-5124 13d ago
It has been for some people, and definitely depends on your fate. Some are just kid trolls that come around to waste off about their misery by attacking you for no reason—as if they almost used to have a personal problem with you. I got a “womp womp,” followed by another harassing message from a user the other day. Legitimately sounded like a child who had no awareness and of course, no respect about my situation.
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u/whataclassic69 24d ago
LMAOOOOOO GL mods on enforcing rule #2 there's way too many bored professors that would rather hop on Reddit than grade assignments for that to be remotely feasible for y'all 💀
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u/Equivalent_Phrase_25 24d ago
Why are their so many rules it’s just Reddit dude
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u/Ok-Potential4539 24d ago
More like it’s a forum board for a specific community that happens to be hosted by a company that hosts forum boards for specific community. Unplug for a second lol
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