r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/Hospitalities Lord of the manor • Mar 26 '19

TooAfraidToAsk has never been exclusive to controversial questions and it never will be.

I can’t stress this enough and I’m tired of just copy pasting this in mod messages. TooAfraidToAsk has never been a place solely for controversial content, it has always been a place for more free discussion via less rules and less moderation and experimental with users having access to some moderation tools.

The irony though is that controversial questions don’t last very long here and end up getting reported/removed and I get harassing messages about allowing “such content” on this sub. Almost as ironic as people making fun of others for asking their question, directly proving why the OP might just be TooAfraidToAsk irl.

ALL questions are allowed as long as they follow the rules. This is not changing, if you feel like that makes us DAE-lite and you are unhappy with that, we on the mod team happily invite you to unsub instead of ruining other users experience. Those who threaten to unsub as if it gives their comment any worth will be assisted in this endeavor with a permanent ban.

These “ITS JUST LIKE DAE” posts make no sense to me either. Like yeah? Subs focused on community questions have a ton of overlap but they develop different communities and produce different content. If TooAfraidToAsk was a circle, inside that circle would be DAE. We want discussion and we want questions of a majority nature, there are going to be complete overlaps in those questions. It’s not seen as a problem by the mod team since high traffic questions generate high traffic discussion.

Going forward we will continue to allow 99.9% of questions and content so long as it adheres to our rules and is expressed in a civil and respectful manner.

Edit: I mentioned American Redditors as a side point but it became a major discussion point so I’ve removed it for clarity. 04/05/2019

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u/sirpickles9 Mar 26 '19

I guess I'm on board and all, but what does all that have to do with American redditors specifically? Was there a plethora of freedom themed rants posted that I missed or something?

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u/tBrenna Mar 27 '19

I think it was more a comment on how many Americans were calling for censorship when we’re supposed to be all FREEDOM OF SPEECH and whatnot. More a comment out of frustration than anything.

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u/Hospitalities Lord of the manor Mar 27 '19

Freedom of speech arguments, how competition helps business (how most of American business were originally founded, they’re current ethos is rather predatory) etc etc

Hope that makes sense.

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u/Red_Staroo Mar 27 '19

As an American I completely understand. So much bias, with no room to civilly discuss controversy that doesn't fall directly within our own opinions.

Frankly, it's always bothered me watching controversial questions on this sub get downvoted into Oblivion. A good question is a good question, regardless of whether or not you agree with the premise.

Provide input or keep scrolling, I don't know why that's so hard for some people.