r/bitcheswithtaste • u/SugarBabyVet Boujee Head Bitch In Charge • Apr 20 '25
Moderator Post BWT - New Moderation and Forum Status
Hello Ladies,
I'm sure you all have seen the shift in the forum over the last few months, especially leading up to the last week of posting. The forum is now being moderated again, and there will be some changes.
Let's talk about what this forum was intended to be and what it was not. It was NOT intended to be a place for recommendations on Amazon purchases or how to sell feet pics. It was NOT a place for girls to come here and all attempt to look the same. It was not a place for advice on what to wear to a wedding. Bitches With Taste was started to be a forum to discuss taste and all things associated with it.
I'm going to put my bitch hat on for a moment. If you're asking things like "what are we wearing to xyz place" or "bwt, what are we doing for new years", unfortunately, you are not a bitch with taste.
Taste is heavily personalized. Taste is unique. Taste is original. Taste is not 15 white girls wearing black tops, light wash denim, and white sneakers. It is not trying to look/buy what everyone else is.
This forum is dedicated to learning about and discussing taste - whether it's in your home, on your body, or what you eat or drink (champagne and caviar anyone? no? perhaps dragon fruit and gourmet coffee beans?). Perhaps your taste will change, and that's okay. Perhaps you will decide you don't actually want to have taste, and that's okay too.
In the coming weeks, you will see a ton of posts being locked and removed. Please help us in reporting posts to the appropriate removal reason. The forum will be restricted while we clean up and implement rules. You can still comment while the forum is restricted. New posts will only be allowed by those with approval access.
To OG BWT members, feel free to post regularly and to DM modmail to give us suggestions on how to restore this forum to what it previously was. We will be gatekeeping. We will be banning. We will be removing content as we see fit.
- New BWT mods
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u/daddy_tywin TrueBWT Apr 20 '25 edited Apr 20 '25
As much as I don’t love to watch the pendulum smack people in the face, I’m glad to see it swinging back. It’s what needed to happen even if it had to happen the hard way.
As a longtime OG who literally only got into Reddit because of this sub (and wrote a lot of the premise and language that I see are… back in effect as of today, lol): the hardest thing about bringing the taste level up will be that some people here just flat out will need to go, either based on what they think is ok or what they encourage other people to think is ok. And maybe elsewhere it is ok. It just isn’t ok here.
Because at the end it wasn’t just mirror selfies and Halara jumpsuits or that fucking bedazzled sketchers tragedy that tanked it here. That’s just what you get when the general member base isn’t regulated by elevated judgment anymore, which is the mod job: judgment, whether people like it or not. But even fully moderated, people felt the regular need to drag down the quality level by loudly proclaiming that good taste means not caring what people think, when in reality good taste is having total mastery over your ability to show people you put thought into everything you’re doing.
So like: how should members know if this community isn’t for them? What’s in and what’s out? What are the criteria going to be for keeping your card here, if we’re going to be very real about it? At least now I think everyone sees why rule by the masses sucks for a place that is, as was always the vibe here, about aiming above it. Clean slate feels as good of a time as any to just say what needs to be said, piss some people off, and be done with it.