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/
The slow but inevitable murder of platforms by their paymasters is a real pisser.
Feels like every platform starts well, expands and just gradually mutates into unusable corporate dogshit.
Those are exactly the three stages of enshittification:
Provide nice and useful platform to draw in users
Once there is a critical mass of users locked in, start with the ads and monetization to draw in the corporations
Get companies locked in, squeeze them for everything until the platform dies
Chasing away real engagement for fake manufactured engagement of powerful groups.
In this case allowing govt to censor users by threatening thd company behind the scenes. Already they send lists of users to violate under other pretext, especially israel related.
1st ammendment means nothing, just as 4th does not as they buy all data broker info and use it without wartamt or judicial oversight.
Another end run around our inalienable rights, sacrificed for short term profits and convenience.