Once again, we are going to vote on allowing moving vacation threads. The vote had such a tiny # of participants that we thought a 2nd vote after all of them being seen would be necessary.
Vote will last for 7 days and end on Halloween. We will try to make daily posts to help spread the reach of this post.
Nobody reads side bars.
apparently a huge % dont even come to the sub, and only comment/see posts that hit their main feed.
This is why megathreads won't work unfortunately. They don't show up in the feed
Yuup, cmon reddit. wake up..
There's a side bar?
We can look into that, but not sure how possible it is.
Alas and alack, it is not to be.
Doesn't help those using mobile.
Go to the main sub page, press the 3 dots, select "Learn More About This Community"
I've been using reddit for 10+ years and had no idea this option existed. I wouldn't presume this is obvious for other users.
It was a feature that was somewhat similar in RIF, but I'd never used the mobile app before you mentioned it, but I was able to find it in only a couple minutes.
So I'd have to search for a few minutes for a function I wasn't aware existed.
Mobile user here of only 8 years, I had no trouble finding this feature naturally when I started using app.
Do not project your shortcomings as normal.
Being unaware of something is a shortcoming, interesting.
To be fair all that does is do a subreddit search for "moving" and "visiting", which is fairly useless. I'm not saying I want the moving and vacation threads cluttering up the sub, but the sidebar links aren't really helpful in getting rid of them or answering the questions that lead to them.
I don’t want anyone moving here, I want to be the only person in this state >:( my state
I love Michigan so much that nobody else should be allowed to live here!
See this guy gets it
Will the winner just be determined by whichever single option gets the most votes? I'm concerned that, if "YES posts on front page" gets the most votes of any single option, but has fewer than "NO" and "ONLY" combined, it will still leave a majority of people annoyed with the result. As in real elections, ranked choice voting would be helpful here.
Should have been 2 questions.
Yah, reddit polls dont give that ability.
I guarantee the mods didn't think that far ahead.
This seems like kind of a crude arrangement. Why must one rule apply to both vacation and moving posts? The latter seem like the much bigger problem. I don't see anyone really getting annoyed by posts showing their vacations? Unless that's not what "vacation posts" mean? I'm unclear and nothing is actually defined here, so we're just voting on our own interpretations.
IMO, the biggest issue is the proliferation of low-effort "should I move to Michigan" posts. The sub is definitely getting too many of these from people who basically can't be bothered to Google and think that r/Michigan is essentially the customer service desk for the entire state.
Posts about moving here that have specific questions and show some degree of effort are probably fine, but the ones that are a single sentence or two, are very broad and have no specific questions, and indicate that OP has zero research on their own should be removed automatically with an automated message urging them to do their own homework and come back if they have specific questions that are informed by that research.
I'm guessing that would cut down on about 80% of the "should I move to MI" spam, and essentially solve the problem of whether they need to be housed in a single megathread or not. If we still find after a couple months that even the more informed posts so numerous that they overtake the front page, we can institute the megathread rule without issue.
It's less about people posting about their vacations and more about curbing the "I want to visit michigan, but I don't know where anything is and can't be bothered to do research independantly" posts. Treating the sub like an AI prompt
Oh okay, that's not at all clear from the poll but makes more sense than just general posts about vacations.
Oh people are annoyed by vacation posts it’s just unlike moving posts they are made mostly by fellow Michiganders so (I’m guessing) we try to be more polite as their part of the community but the laziness is getting annoying
Can't make a decision on your own, stay home.
“I’m thinking of moving to Michigan and have done no research that I’ll tell you about. I’m too dumb to google search a single thing. Tell me what I want to know!”
Stay where you are!
People voting should upvote this post so there is more awareness of the vote.
I vote that we stop allowing posts of any kind in here. It's soooo annoying. No more posts. Just turn the subreddit into a wiki page.
Pin one general one with info. The end.
You can add all the side bar links and sticky posts you want but that won’t stop people from posting what you don’t want them to post.
Meet people where they are at. Anything else is user-hostile.
A single, daily thread could do the trick. Easy enough for people who aren't interested to ignore and move along. Simple for the mod team to post/automate - and when someone breaks that rule it's a single link to redirect them while closing the thread.
You do understand people asking this are looking for a conversation right? Why is it so hard to engage with someone? What else is there worth talking about in state subreddit? Be human for once.
I’ll vote for anything that limits the mods power. The rules in the sub are already too much.
Exactly.
I like the doxing requirements for photos. It’s in Michigan, that’s all you need to know.
Drama queen
What one of the 11 mods are you defending over the 11 uanessacry rules?
Thats a dumb rule.
I personally think they should be allowed one day a week but I don't know the logistics of that.
My idea, but it involves forcing post flairs (not sure if this sub already does this because I don't post here, just comment):
Create post flairs, force every post to assign a flair
For moving / vacation posts, automod can automatically take an action with the assigned flair, directing them to the appropriate place, then these can be logged and action taken depending on this vote.
Opinion:
The problem I see with this is that, these posts get a lot of traction because they ask for personalized responses. Posts asking for opinions or personalized responses get way more traction than pictures of the dunes or whatever (obviously excluding big issue topics like news posts).
Removing these types of posts completely will definitely remove a lot of activity from the sub, as most will see only what comes in the feed and won't come directly to the sub to read through and answer megathread questions.
Also, I accidentally voted no moving posts. I meant to vote yes and misclicked :/
If only we had a "Moving to Michigan?" and a "Visiting Michigan?" link in the sidebar, in a nice, friendly Robin's Egg blue.