[Moderator Announcement) From now onward posts asking questions about life in different countries and territories will be prohibited.

[u/cystidia]

As frequent visitors to this community are aware, countless posts asking users "what's life like in ___" have recently flooded the subreddit and many members have expressed deep concerns surrounding the fact that such posts should be allowed or not. The moderator team has had an exhaustive discussion regarding the legitimacy of these posts and have concluded that they will henceforth be automatically removed (through an AutoModerator filter) without warning since they fall under rule 6 regarding irrelevant/extraneous posts.

We recognize the entertainment and interest appeal surrounding these posts, but it is becoming increasingly clear that they are becoming excessive and hold no merit for us allowing them. They're quickly turning into a trend and some of them are intentionally satirized which is plainly low-effort content for no valuable discussion.

We're aware that users will have a difficult time adapting to this new rule, especially people who frequented such posts but we hope that people recognize the underlying reason for why this is being enacted and why it's extremely important.

If you have any advice or suggestions, feel free to comment them down below and we'll make sure to respond to them.

r/Geography

[u/hypnofedX]

As frequent visitors to this community are aware, countless posts asking users "what's life like in ___" have recently flooded the subreddit and many members have expressed deep concerns surrounding the fact that such posts should be allowed or not.

Can someone tell me how these posts don't violate the same rule? I don't understand the distinction between what is life like vs what's the most interesting fact about.

What's the most interesting fact about Easter island that only few people know?

What's the most interesting fact about lake Titicaca?

[u/cystidia → u/hypnofedX]

Open ended inquiries like "what's life like in ___" are most often restricted to the domain of sharing facts about how people typically live in a country, hindering the chance of any diverse discussions from happening - they also tend to accumulate and some are unnecessarily satirized which is plainly low-effort content. Posts seeking a diverse range of facts extending to a country's history, environment, nature, geology etc have much more interest appeal since they allow for much more diverse discussions and dialogue to flourish. As always though, if they also start to become a redundant trend we'd be glad to update the AutoModerator config to automatically delete them too. But so far it apparently seems these types of posts are well-received by the community and there aren't too many problems regarding them yet.