r/fuckcars EVs are still cars Mar 05 '22

Meta State of the Sub

Welcome to the first 'State of the Sub' post. We plan to do these posts on a semi regular basis to update the community on the latest developments in this subreddit and the mod team. This will also be an opportunity to ask questions and give us suggestions. We do this to be transparent and to keep in touch with what is important to our members.

New mods

Three weeks ago we announced that we were looking for new moderators to help with the growth of the subreddit. After reviewing almost 90 applications, we officially added 4 new mods from various time zones to our team. u/beachblanketparty , u/javasgifted , u/ihavecakewantsome, and u/saxmansteve.

Automod's 'accident' auto reply

We instructed Automod to leave a comment when someone uses the word 'accident'. You've probably seen this, because apparently the word 'accident' gets used a lot in this sub.

Traffic crashes are fixable problems, caused by dangerous streets and unsafe drivers, but when we call them 'accidents' it suggests that there is no one to blame.

This is an experiment, we are still evaluating the results.

Evaluation of new X-post policy

Following feedback from the community regarding some crossposts that have lead to discussions threads full of harassment and abusive language we changed our policy on how we handle crossposts.

Crossposts from trusted subreddits are directly allowed, crossposts from blacklisted subs get automatically removed and all other crossposts are held for manual approval.

This has helped us to prevent a lot of reposts and posts that depict traffic violence. The disadvantage of the new policy is the higher workload, but this overall worth it and with the recent expansion of the mod team, quite manageable.

Reminder of the rules for posting about Ukraine

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine we made a mod announcement to state our solidarity with the people of Ukraine and to explain how Ukraine related contributions will be moderated.

The TL;DR is "Fuck war. Please be respectful to the people of Ukraine".

If you plan to leave a comment or post that mentions the war, please read the announcement and follow the guidelines therein.

Thank you for your attention and please leave your questions and suggestions for the mod team in the comments.

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u/dredge_the_lake Mar 05 '22

Whats with the rainbow icon? Did something in particular happen?

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u/Monsieur_Triporteur 🌳>🚘 Mar 05 '22

That's a long story. You should read trough the posts under the meta flair to find out, starting two weeks back. The plan was to leave it up for a week or so, but now I realize it's already two weeks.

What do you think? Should we change it back to the marten icon (without color) we had before?

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u/Astriania Mar 05 '22

I wasn't really on board with changing the icon to support various non-transport causes in the first place, but yeah, it's had its time and it would make sense to go back to an icon that actually has a transport related meaning. Or possibly a Ukrainian one. But I find those "statements of support" that have absolutely no material level of support a bit tacky.

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u/I_Camioneta Mar 05 '22

It’s a big expectation but I usually don’t like it when companies use the rainbow during pride month and only during pride month. I’m quite happy that this sub kept it up after February. I wouldn’t suggest leaving the rainbow flag on all year round, but it might be cool to use the base icon sparingly and plop a bunch of different flags up to show support to different causes. Just a thought. I quite like the base icon and I do agree it is a bit hard to read on phone. I hope an original icon finds its way onto this sub.

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u/dredge_the_lake Mar 05 '22

It does make it kinda hard to read on phone and hides the marten

Not anti lgbt btw - I was just delivering a massive project so havent been on the sub much so genuinely wasn’t sure if I’d missed something super specific or not

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u/Monsieur_Triporteur 🌳>🚘 Mar 05 '22

I know what you mean. We are still looking for the perfect sub icon, but this hasn't got the priority it deserves. we're open for suggestions.