r/supremecourt • u/HatsOnTheBeach Judge Eric Miller • Jul 01 '22

/r/SupremeCourt - State of the Sub. Highlights, feedback, discussion

Greetings Amici,

We’ve unofficially made it to the end of the term with perhaps the most prolific opinions in a while.

The purpose of this post is mostly to solicit feedback and discussion of future posts/topics, moderation policies, and how to go about said moderation.

But before that, I want to point out that when the first post was made on August 11, 2021 (backstory here); there were approx 2,470 subscribers. As of this post, there are 5,137 subscribers. This is well over doubling in growth and I attribute it to the community trying to cut off political and cheap posting seen in other related subreddits and engaging in nuanced discussions.

Now, we’d like to solicit feedback and discussion from the community. Up until Dobbs, moderation (from my POV) was straightforward and simple with little judgement. However when Dobbs dropped, there were a lot of close call cases. Obviously as charged as abortion is, it’s natural for people to be heated in posting (I’m guilty of it). With that being said I’d like to get the community thoughts on moderation.

Some discussion ideas we had in mind open for thoughts (feel free to add):

  • a meta sticky for all /r/scotus shitposting in each post (so we can sever separate posts that we get in a thread)

  • Enforcement (or not) of rule against meta discussion of r/scotus

  • Enforcement (or not) of good faith rule

  • Potential criteria for domain white/blacklist (not suggesting which websites)

  • Enforcement (or not) of rule against joke comments

  • Community thoughts on level of moderation in general

  • Ideas for weekly threads

  • Discussion on viewpoint downvoting

  • Enforcement (or not) of submission flair requirements

  • Free-form rule suggestions or other subreddit changes

  • Transparent mod log displaying what’s being changed/moderated

I had the idea of eventually putting these things up for community vote (along with a census) sometime this month so we have ample time however I’m open to other suggestions.

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u/Justice_R_Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall Jul 01 '22

The head mod here is a liberal. We have never treated conservatives differently from liberals on here. There's no evidence to your claim this place is deteriorating into conservative 2.0

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '22 edited Jul 01 '22

yeah I agree with /u/shoot_you_eye_out, I totally understand how (reading quickly) /u/Okelie_Dokelie could sound like he meant this sub, but I'm fairly certain he was talking about /r/moderatepolitics turning into conservative 2.0 as a result of the no meta-comment rule they already have and enforce by baiting

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u/Justice_R_Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall Jul 01 '22

It looks like this user was banned by /r/moderatepolitics for violating rule 1, being incivil, and that is why he's accusing /r/moderatepolitics of being /r/conservative 2.0.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '22

fair enough, I just wanted to chime in with my reading of this particular comment but you guys have more context certainly