/r/Movies - We Need Your Help Regarding All of These Accusations

We've had articles of celebrity accusations in the past, over the years. Our line is "has anything affected the movies?" Plenty of celebrities have terrible personal life drama, and we don't allow it. No stories about Amber Heard accusing Johnny Depp of domestic violence, Chris Pratt and Anna Faris breaking up, or who said who groped them in a bathroom. This is movie news and discussion, not celebrity personal lives. /r/Entertainment handles celeb gossip & drama.

Our fingers can't hold the dyke much longer. We're getting multiple new accusations against celebrities everyday. 4 just today (on top of articles still being submitted about the old accusations). We get dozens to hundreds of articles and submissions about them every day. No one sees them because I've set up Automoderator to pull certain keywords. I've been going through the logs daily to make sure it didn't remove anything substantial, and at times either freed a story or reposted it myself (when an actor was fired, or stepped down, or a movie was canceled.)

This is getting too much for the moderators. The Automod censorship list is uncomfortably long, but if we allowed every article and story about these accusations this wouldn't be /r/movies anymore, it would be dominated by scandal submissions. We moderators aren't interested in reviewing scandal articles, we're here to moderate movie news. These scandals bring out very intense users and the quality of discussion becomes a warzone of insults and nastiness. We don't want /r/movies to devolve into that.

We're also tired of users accusing us of being complicit because we don't allow personal drama stories such as these. It's a rock, meet hard place situation. There is no compromise: if we allow one accusation story in /r/movies we must allow them all, otherwise we'd literally be picking and choosing which ones are more important, and that's fundamentally wrong on every level. The moderators I've spoken with just wish to God this was someone else's problem. Reading these stories is upsetting for so many reasons, and the guilty parties absolutely deserve to have their names dragged through the mud.

It's just still not /r/movies material. Subreddits are designed to be about specific topics, and these stories objectively do not fit our criteria on a macro level.

So - solutions. I personally wish some wonderful /r/movies citizen would create /r/MovieScandals or perhaps an /r/entertainment mod would be interested. That person could crosspost to /r/movies once per accused, or something. Get the news out, but divert it. Or maybe I should do that every morning when I check the automod logs.

But really, we'd like to ask you guys if you have any ideas?

Forgive me if I worded something weird, I'm half asleep.

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And no, the users can't just decide content with upvote/downvotes, that's a recipe for disaster. If you need an explanation why, go compare /r/games to /r/gaming.

Submitted November 09, 2017 at 01:22PM by girafa http://ift.tt/2m62hxX