Aquariums - January 2020 Feedback Thread

January 2020 Feedback Thread
Thai Micro Crab. Smallest known fully aquatic freshwater crab.
Convicts are not just black and white!
Ruler of the lands sat in his spot ruling over his guppy subjects
Finally filled in the river with the blue pebbles.
Show grade stud, father's of the many mahachais I've posted before. Topone Betta bloodline
My first thought was that my oto had hung itself. Instead he was just playing Tarzan
My noodle in all his glory
My endlicheri bichir!
Feeding time in the shellie tank
It's not the biggest... it's not the best by any means... but it's mine and I love it.
Taught Lil homie how to jump today
Feeling all the things
75 Gallon coming along nice.
My female Jack Dempsey. Colors are popping tonight.
Had no idea this could happen, my anubias bloomed!
Bought several ghost shrimp from walmart several months back (I know, I'm sorry). Most died off, couldn't really figure why until I saw the last survivor. About 4~5 inches, and growing.
A friend of mine calls this 40gal hex "The Jungle Tank"
My are S.Repens are thicc!
Halfbeaks look so cool from above. I’m super stoked that we finally have these guys after looking for about a month.
Silly Clown Loach trying to squeeze through a hole too small for their body
That's ick right?
After 3.5 weeks of cycling our first planted tank finally has fish!
In Loving Memory of my Moor Goldfish Seaweed
Just like a cat!

January 2020 Feedback Thread

Posted: 15 Jan 2020 08:30 AM PST

Hello everyone, as we do every year in January, we are posting a feedback thread to get everyones feedback on some rule changes and refinements we made over the year as well as open the floor to any ideas for improvement on either rules or content. We are a very busy team (as well as outside of reddit) but we do hope this year to increase the level of content posted at the wiki and sticky post level.

Some rules that we tend to get a lot of modmail or reports about:

Youtube 10% rule (Subset of Rule 2)
Animals (cats, dogs, etc) in the shot with aquariums (Subset of Rule 5)
Harassment and Personal Attacks (Rule 1)

Some feedback on the rules and some reports we get:

Regarding rule 1: We tend to only favor removal for direct personal attacks or where the conversation has degraded to a point that we feel as a team is not adding anymore value to the post or sub. We are not going to remove comments that are constructive in nature, even if they seem offensive to the original poster or the commenter to which they are replying too. Discussion is important even if the overall tone is aggressive. As a principle of free speech of sorts, we always favor less removal over more.

Regarding rule 5: Rule 5 does not just apply to memes, it also applies to images that are heavily modified and altered in a way that we deem is meme-like in nature. Additionally, although we allow watermarks on images and understand their purpose, excessive watermark size or obstruction at our discretion will be removed. Remember that we do look at watermarking as light-weight personal marketing, so we tend to be fairly strict on its size and obstructive nature in a post.

Regarding rule 6: We only remove shitty tanks posted here where the intent is to ridicule or discuss on shitty nature of the system. Out of caution, we will always leave a post up if we think the poster may be asking for help and will only remove it when it's clear that help is not the intention or if the poster is trolling.

Broad brush removals:

We have modified a lot of our rules to be broad-brush (no exceptions). This accomplishes two main issues we've had in the past with team-based exceptions. For one, it allows for even moderation since there is no interpretational element. Two, it has been difficult over time to get enough moderators to vote on specific exceptions since we span multiple time zones and have limited availability to act on a post before it has been up for a long time. We do realize this makes some removals seem overly extreme, especially on gray-area posts. We have accounted for this and after some lengthy internal discussion think that this is the best way to moderate evenly.

Where we need help:

As a small moderation team, we don't have a lot of time to vet heavy re-posts (especially on /r/shittyaquariums) so we ask that everyone help us get these by reporting them directly. We have not yet found a tool or method to check for these easily. We are still accepting mod applications up until the end of this month, so if you have the time available and think you're a strong candidate please apply.

We want to thank everyone for sticking with us and helping with reports. We do realize that with our somewhat rapid growth over the last year or two it can be challenging to keep the sub quality where it needs to be as well as present some interesting rule and content challenges. Although these threads generate only a small amount of traffic, feedback is important (whether positive or negative) and we want to be transparent about how we approach the rules and their results. Please do not hesitate to comment on any positive or negative changes.

Happy new year!

-/r/Aquariums mod team

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Thai Micro Crab. Smallest known fully aquatic freshwater crab.

Posted: 15 Jan 2020 08:43 PM PST