There is always people posting on the decline of quality on TRP. There's much fewer that post quality content to back up their concerns. There's even fewer that report the very common issues. The biggest, and easiest one is asinine questions on TRP.

RPS has recently stickied posts on removing low quality content. However, there's only a handful of us, and 150k of you.

This is what you can do to help.

Report questions. Report any of the rules from the sidebar. Some can't seem to find them.

Here. Any questions

Don't answer questions in TRP.

Point out why OP is an idiot, as there's usually 100 people who are reading each post who have no idea. Iron sharpens iron.

Remember, these aren't users making honest mistakes. This is either people who are willfully not reading the sidebar, and posting before they know what they are doing, or ones who have, and think that they want a greater audience for their questions, and can't be bothered to keep the quality up here.

Either way, by answering their questions, you're contributing to the problem. I've done maybe a dozen removals this week already. Every single one had plenty of answers, but no reports.

Plenty of the endorsed guys are on board with this. They have lives, things to do. They take time to pass on the things they have gained onto the next batch of endorsed guys, and every idiot poster takes up space and time that could have been spent on 2 others who could be worth a damn.

So do your part. I have no sympathy for people bitching about the quality of this sub, not when the report button is used so sparingly. I would much rather sift through a large amount of reports than to read shitpost after shitpost, removing, pasting the same exact reasons in each, then getting the eventual ego protecting tempter tantrum, which never goes away until you spend the time muting people.

Before joining the moderator team, I had no idea the amount of crap they had to filter through, the very curt and blunt messaging is a direct consequence of this:

A quick example.


Question in trp

from sarenidynow sent 2 hours ago

I see I am banned for two weeks, Which as a first time poster seems a bit extreme. I read your sidebar, the link to the rules along with a couple other of the links do not work. Perhaps that is why people were responding to my question, rather than informing me of rules I was breaking.

Either way, I understand there are rules and it seems you're working hard to keep them. My suggestion would be perhaps make these rules a little easier to read? Provide working links? Before dishing out punishments that don't fit the crime?

Thanks.

re: Question in trp

from sarenidynow sent 4 minutes ago

Hahaha enjoy your internet power loser


No excuses. This sub will reflect the standards of the users, do your part. Good luck