If you're going to down vote, I assume you're disagreeing with the proposal. If so, please explain why, rather than just down voting and moving on. So far, wub has been the only one to contribute a disagreement; favouritism. You may have other concerns. Criticisms are always welcome, but the mods can't change anything if they don't know why you hold them.

First of all, a disclaimer that I appreciate and respect that these are quite considerable, often complex proposals, and the mods are people with busy lives too.

As we see in the end of 2015, there are 4 major reasons I'm suggesting this. The post has become long, so to tl;dr:

  1. Slightly clunky layout of the PPD task bar and tabs, particularly the layout of 'Top' threads; it's unclear how long these have been top threads, and how this differs from the ratings for Hot threads?

  2. Easily accessible PPD archive, where one can see the most upvoted/popular threads of all time-as in, the sub's history-alongside the suggested 'Thread of the Week'

  3. Catch out circular thread conversations

  4. Review 'PPD pill culture historiography'

  5. 'Hot' and 'Top' tabs are often very chaotic and randomised, yet the most popular threads are always heavily up voted. (E.g. the most recent would include [Atlas' one about women misinterpreting the intended recipient of TRP's message, which last I checked got c. 30 upvotes] (https://www.reddit.com/r/PurplePillDebate/comments/3yo780/cmv_women_read_trp_and_mistakenly_believe_that/) and a 'CMV: being a morally upstanding character has nothing to do with your attractiveness to women'which got +40 up votes. So perhaps this tab could go next to 'Hot' or 'Top', or perhaps the 'Top' tab could be rearranged to reflect this.

Perhaps make the cut-off point >15upvotes? These threads tend to be the most popular, unique and insightful. Rather than having to trudge through the back catalogue for days on end, it may help to compile a list of them on one of the buttons on the top tab.

  1. My suggestion here is that we will have a large archive of the most up voted, ostensibly 'high quality' posts of the past 2-3 years of PPD's history, as these are for the most part inaccessible unless you know where you're looking. An example would be Whisper's post on factual absolutism vs. moral absolutism in the pill sphere, which got 60 up votes but is now nearly a year old, yet is still relevant to understanding the recurring style of debate on PPD. TRP has an archive of its most popular posts, and I know this sub is tiny in comparison, but as its popularity grows, so does its rich back catalogue.

  2. Not to be funny, but we have had 2 threads on marriage-the same subject with a reworded title-twice, in 10 hours.* 2 weeks ago might as well have been called 'Nice Guy week', where we had at least 5 threads on whether the pejorative Nice Guy label used by feminists was useful or flawed and harmful, and 3 weeks ago 'Rape week', where we had another 5 discussing the rape culture scare on campus and whether it was justified. We've also had some trolls trying to shit-post about the fate of 'incels' and 'low SMV men', with the obvious intention of riling up FAs reading and caricaturing women's attraction cues, and one too many posts about the nice guy/bad boy false dichotomy. Just check the back catalogue for the last 2 months.

This proposal, if accepted, would also allow us to see whether certain debates have already been covered at length in the past (which is not to exclude, but to complement, the fresh avenues of commentary from the newer PPDers, of course!)

I have been here nearly a year; we are going around in circles. Considering most people here are only willing to compromise on their fundamental value systems which they've invested their ego in a little these debates often go nowhere.(Myself included; we are humans, and prone to protect that which makes us feel secure.) Rarely does anyone walk away from here with a CMV, but rather with their beliefs re-enforced through having to defend them against an opponent who only half understands your perspective, and is only half even listening to your perspective as an equal. That's a complaint I have about both pills, btw. For example, many RPers are unwilling to read a Salon or Feministing source, many BPers are unwilling to read The Rational Male and base their knowledge of RP/Manosphere theory and culture entirely off the TRP subreddit. Likewise, some people refuse to read social science studies, not acknowledging them as credible due to subjectivity and 'leftist bias', and others refuse to read anything to do with evo-psych due to its non-falsifiable hypotheses.

  1. We may shed some insight into the sub's current trends by looking at the 'PPD pill culture historiography' as it were, via the archives. From this, we'll see who agreed with us in the past, who disagreed, how much ideological overlap there is between ourselves and the opposing group (or how much there has been) between the pills, and how PPD pill culture evolved over time. For example:

  • has TRP become less or more dogmatic about evolutionary psychology as its operative theory for inter-gender dynamics? (Seems obtuse, but many TRPers have abandoned it in favour of 'heuristics based off observations and experience', even though I'm fairly sure this latter choice is potentially ripe in confirmation bias...)

  • Have we had a rise of outliers-e.g. purple pill, MGTOW, black pill, anti-feminist bluepillers, feminist redpillers etc.-over time?

  • How has the practical definition of the 'purple pill' flair changed as the sub's popularity has increased?

Etc.

Just a thought. I'm aware that accusations of favouritism may be an issue.

edit: One issue would be that the posts may get removed quite quickly should they be down voted.

a) For this reason, posts X months old could be archived (Read-only) and the up vote button locked as with main homepage subs.

b) Or, we could have an actual list of posts from highest up voted of all time right down to the 0 lists. I'd be quite interested to see if any post has been so popular it's received +100 up votes, for example.

c) Plan C, perhaps only 'Thread of the Week' posts could be part of the archive (I'm not such a fan of this move.)