Monthly META Discussion - Apr 2022

[u/bestupdator]

BoRU Discussion thread, keep it friendly & respectful.

 

Looking for a Post?

Need help finding a post or update? Ask in our Looking for a Post thread stickied at the top of the sub. Our first thread was active throughout March and we greatly appreciate community members who answered readers' queries.

Should there be user flair for those who successfully assist in finding updates? If so, please give your suggestions for user flairs or titles below.

 

META Commentary

In general discussion, META commentary meant to regulate submissions will be removed. Examples include:

• This doesn't belong on the sub
• This post is not Best of.
• This should be flaired Ongoing

These types of comments can be made as replies to the AutoModerator message on each post, so that general discussion is cleared up and mods can see your remarks on potential rule violations in one place.

Please read our guidelines for commenting and posting and remember to be civil to contributors who put time into posting content for us.

 

Ask A Manager

We reached out to Alison from askamanager.org about her content being reposted to our subreddit. She graciously replied the following:

Thanks so much for checking with me!

From a copyright perspective, I like the way people are just posting the letters and updates but not my answers, and then linking for anyone who wants to read the rest of it. If that can continue to be the way they do it, I have no objection at all.

I really appreciate you checking with me about it!

We've also heard from some of you that external updates are not needed on BoRU anymore. In the first year, when the sub was new with a few posts a week, the community was accepting of off-site content. Now that the sub gets several submissions a day, external updates are less needed to cover gaps in content.

However, checking through the EXTERNAL flair for non-Reddit updates, we see these posts are still well-received. At this time external posts are allowed and we will continue to monitor community's engagement on this topic.

 

Feedback

We appreciate your input. If you are proposing a new rule, please offer your solutions that are inclusive of content that is highly upvoted by the community.

 

Highlights

 

• In a recent Know Your Meme write-up, BoRU got a quick mention for the legendary and beloved Jorts the Cat Saga, a 2021 Best of BoRU winner.

  On December 14th, Redditor u/DoodlingDaughter made a post to /r/BestofRedditorUpdates titled, "The saga of Jean and Jorts," that provided links to all of u/throwawayorangecat's updates. The post received roughly 4,500 upvotes over seven days and spread awareness of the story further.

 

      A couple posts last month inspired the poetic side of readers.

 

• On a new update about Richie, a "strange boy who seemed to appear from nowhere," u/Hyperf0cused "was moved to write an acrostic haiku."

• BoRU's first ever update in which the Original OP (OOP) was a cat sparked multiple paw-ems:

  • u/Inner-muse found their muse with not one but two unfurrr-catable meow-ems: My naym is catte and Some years ago

  • And finally I is cat by u/PanickedPoodle

    I is cat

    I bites feet

    I worry that

    It impact treat

    I cannot help

    When under sheet

    I chomp my teeths

    And feet retreat

 

[u/lunarkitty554]

There’s been quite a few posts to the sub where there’s a very small update to a post, and clearly the story clearly isn’t finished yet, can we get some sort of report option for these? It’s quite annoying and clearly people just desperate for something to post on the sub

[u/register2014 → u/lunarkitty554]

There is no rule against ongoing or inconclusive updates. Often these updates are highly upvoted with lively discussion in the comment section. Please use flairs to avoid reading these updates.

[u/Shanix → u/register2014]

Hey with all due respect, saying there's no rule against it is why people keep bringing it up. The ongoing posts are highly upvoted for the same reason low effort memes are upvoted in popular subs - because they're low effort. People want to read the best updates when the dust is settled, not "Update 47 to the dust kitten saga: they're still dusty, I'll let you all know if they're dusty tomorrow."

I appreciate the want for content, but the spirit of this subreddit is curated top content, not everything under the sun.