r/RomanceBooks • u/mrs-machino smutty bar graphs š • Oct 07 '24
Community Management Community Survey Results Post - PLEASE READ
Thanks to everyone who took the recent community survey! We sincerely value your feedback. For those who are new here, we do this twice a year to understand what people are enjoying about the sub and seek community input on rule changes. This time we had 1,112 total responses.
Survey Results Here
To summarize the poll results, users are generally happy with the level of rule enforcement. The only change to sub procedure that got consensus was to consolidate sale/deal posts with no context into one weekly thread. We will post that thread on Sunday, October 13 and begin directing sales posts there at that point.
With regard to the comments on the survey, they were generally supportive and we appreciate all the kind words! With regard to commenters that requested changes, 14 were concerned that we require too much detail in book request posts, and 5 felt the sub karma requirement was too high. While 10 comments mentioned that they feel the sub is overmoderated, 20 comments requested that we increase moderation on a variety of topics. We appreciate all the feedback and will continue to do our best to clearly and fairly enforce the rules that the sub has voted on.
A number of comments suggested things that we already do, such as hold a book club and make our megathreads more visible. We wanted to make sure everyone knew those links are in the sidebar! We also have a wiki here with lots of great community info.
With regard to sub karma and book requests, we wanted to provide the sub karma overview post explaining how the rule works and why it is in place. For the month of September alone, the sub karma rule removed over 1,500 request posts from new sub users. These are nearly all posts that were searchable and would have had to be manually removed by the mod team prior to this rule, and it is what's made moderation sustainable for us as the sub has grown. We do not plan to change this rule, and the survey results show that the majority of users are happy with the volume and quality of request posts we currently have.
If you are curious about how we enforce the searchable portion of the book request rule or anything else, our moderation policies are listed on the detailed rules page in our wiki.
Lastly, we wanted to address recent discussion about following/camping comments in request posts - we've heard from users and plan a separate community management post later this week. In the meantime, please do not report these comments as they are not currently against the rules and we're already aware of the issue.
Thank you all again for your participation, and for making this sub such a welcoming and fun place to be!
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u/Magnafeana thereās some whores in this house (i live alone) Oct 07 '24
Thank you for this maāam and to the rest of the mods š„°
But man, Iām disappointed clickbait titles was highly voted to remain, RIP š
It was voted on, and I voted against it, so at least I did my part in that statistic.
Iām just trying to understand why would people want that to stay? Just damn. This makes me worried, especially when we had a very clickbait highly upvoted post about wHy iS aLL roMANcE pOrn come through this sub. I really, really donāt want to see that happen again. That was so disheartening to see that people just trashed the genre this sub is built around and it was so so visible.
And I know someone will probably do it again, aaaaaaaah š«
But š¤·šæāāļø I voted no. So I said my piece on the matter.
How come I didnāt get a āI Votedā sticker, mods, thatās what usually happens š¤
Anyways, thank you mods for looking into the following/camping comments, though! And thank you for keeping this sub democratic, appreciate your hard work, do the cha cha ššæand have an ice cream š¦