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/

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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    Remember when the excuse for allowing subs dedicated to jerking off to pictures of children was “free speech”? What a difference a few years makes.

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        Was GamerGate really only 11 years ago? That’s spun my head a little, TBH. I mean, it’s the root of QAnon, from there Trump, and just so much about the current US. I could have sworn it was 10 years before Trump got elected, not 2.

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          Yep. IMO, the experience of using social media was pretty good (far from perfect but pretty good) going into 2014, but 2014 set in motion what became 2015. When gamergate-style ““debate”” tactics took over well, everything.

          EDIT: And more importantly those tactics weren’t banned by most subreddits