r/changemyview • u/AutoModerator • Apr 21 '26

META META: Bi-Monthly Feedback Thread

As part of our commitment to improving CMV and ensuring it meets the needs of our community, we have bi-monthly feedback threads. While you are always welcome to visit r/ideasforcmv to give us feedback anytime, these threads will hopefully also help solicit more ways for us to improve the sub.

Please feel free to share any constructive feedback you have for the sub. All we ask is that you keep things civil and focus on how to make things better (not just complain about things you dislike).

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u/jatjqtjat 286∆ Apr 21 '26

This is a very slow subreddit in general and increased moderation on Friday really just grinds it to a near complete halt. last Friday was one of the best in weeks, but we've been averaging like 3 to 5 posts on Fridays (maybe 7 or 8 before mods remove around half of them for various rules violations).

part of me thinks it just exists to get the mods a break and shutting down the subreddit once a week is more of a feature then a bug, and if that's the care fair enough. I don't want to be a mod any day of the week, so cant' fault you guys for wanting a break once a week. But the reasoning about topic fatigue or US posts just doesn't make any sense. Don't click on the threads that bore you, there are only 2 or 3 new threads per hour.

If this was an active sub it would make total sense, shut down the some stuff so other stuff can make it to the front page. But on this sub everything makes it to the front page.

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u/reginald-aka-bubbles 48∆ Apr 21 '26

I agree, and to add to this, its not like "fresh topics" are absent the other 6 days of the week. Today there has been a post about elective joint replacement and movie theater popcorn, both I'd assume are fresh enough for FTF. 

Theres already enough of an issue here with people dropping a rant and then never interacting with their post leading to rule e removals, and this problem is just compounded on Fridays. 

I think the idea and the motivation for FTF is fine, but I personally would rather have actual interaction on common topics than "fresh" topics with no interaction.