Hey everyone,
We want to be completely transparent about what’s been happening behind the scenes.
Over the past few weeks, Reddit admins have started cracking down on subs that post political, off-topic, or “low-effort” content — even when it’s obviously satire or harmless shitposting. Unfortunately, r/CirclejerkSopranos got flagged in that wave.
We were told, directly and indirectly, that if we didn’t clean things up, the subreddit could be taken down permanently.
What This Means
To avoid a ban, we’ve had to remove a lot of posts that don’t fit Reddit’s updated enforcement standards. That includes:
Political jokes or memes — even if they use Sopranos screenshots
Non-Sopranos posts, current-event edits, or general internet memes
Some of the more “random” or off-topic shitposts the sub used to allow
We know that kind of content was part of the sub’s identity and humor. We didn’t want to change it — but Reddit’s moderation team made it clear that if we didn’t comply, the entire community could be wiped out.
The mod team isn’t happy about this either. None of us want to over-moderate or kill the vibe — we’re just trying to keep the sub from getting banned.
Anyways $4 a pound. It’s up to you guys if you’d like to keep this sub around.
EDIT:
Whatever happens to this sub, thank you for the last 8 years. It’s been an honor to be joined by men of honor.
Ah salud
https://www.reddit.com/r/CirclejerkSopranos/comments/1ob5b3n/mod_update_reddit_cracking_down_on/
If there’s one sympathy I have for Redditors (and others), is that switching to the FV and trying to have a ‘Reddit-like’ experience is not only a bumpy learning curve for most, but in some ways simply impossible, based on various types of communities and content simply not being here. Or not being here nearly to their satisfaction.
I’m not saying that’s a great excuse (because it isn’t IMO), but to me it kinda reflects the level of effort many (or most?) Redditors are willing to spend, like it or not. Not unlike, say… the willingness to educate themselves on various political parties and figures such that they can make smart voting decisions.
Anyway, maybe we’ve been kind of hamstrung here by the fact that big social media’s ‘one stop shopping’ experience over the space of ~two decades has succeeded in producing a sort of jaded and entitled user-base, emotionally & psychologically unwilling to expand their boundaries in certain ways. Meanwhile, if something like the Fediverse had come along around the time of BBS’s or early web days, I’m thinking it would have been much more of a sensation, with loads more people willing to approach it in a much more open-minded way. *shrug*