r/indonesia • u/ClosetMugger check /r/sehat out 💪🏾👍🏾 • Mar 30 '23

Meta PSA: No more U-20 related threads

Good afternoon, komodongs and komodettes. Since the past 24 hours, we have noticed a huge influx of posts relating to the U-20 World Cup 2023 fiasco. While we understand that this development has been met by mixed responses, both domestically and internationally, unfortunately this also causes this subreddit to be cluttered with too many U20-related shitposts, memes, repetitive news posts, as well as a lot of circlejerking, doomerism comments and inflammatory remarks. Thus, there will be new, temporary rules with regards to these issues:

  1. Strictly no more posts related to the U-20 World Cup 2023. This includes memes, social media posts, funny videos, infographics, discussion posts as well as some news posts,

  2. Only news posts that are allowed have to be from proper news websites. If the content of the news article is jerkbaiting or ragebaiting, redundant, repetitive and does not bring anything new, it will be removed at mods' discretion,

  3. Posts and comments still have to abide by subreddit and site-wide rules. Please report them if there is violation,

  4. Anything related to U-20 World Cup 2023 has to be posted in the Megathread.

  5. Failure to comply will result in a-day ban.

These rules will be in effect per today 2023/03/30 at 17.00 WIB until TBC. Any posts before will not be removed.

Link to megathread

Cheers

Update 2023/04/01 18.27 WIB

Since it is already official that Indonesia will not host U-20 World Cup 2023 and our U-20 team has been disbanded, these rules will cease to have effect starting from today 18.30 WIB.

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u/ClosetMugger check /r/sehat out 💪🏾👍🏾 Mar 30 '23

Is this going to be a precedent going forward for this sub?

It depends. In this case, some people decided to use this opportunity to spread hate towards a certain group of people which is why we have to resort to this. I personally cannot speak for previous "trends" though.

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u/Tyrandeus Mar 30 '23

Im against this, kalau ada yg hate speech ya ban dia dong, yg gak ngapa2in kenapa malah dilarang?

One of the strong point of r/indonesia is the free speech.

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u/ishmael555 Kalimantan Timur Mar 30 '23

Too much free speech and you end up with pre-2019 r/indo. You understand where this is going right?

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u/Tyrandeus Mar 30 '23

Surely theres middle ground between too strict and too lax right? I just feel that mods are too quick in ruling the U20 topic...

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u/ishmael555 Kalimantan Timur Mar 30 '23

We have a megathread for it, that's the middle ground.

Also I think it is justified. If you know how redditors here work, even when there's nation-wide scandal like kasus Mario atau Sambo you can still find other posts unrelated to that topic here and there.

But these past 2 days, there is nothing but U-20 posts. Even worse I found one redditor who has like 10+ posts about U-20 for the past two days. So yeah the containing the topic is the only proper.

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u/SonicsLV Mar 30 '23

Personally, I find Sambo and Mario spam is much more annoying. This one is much more understandable since we just got official FIFA announcement which is the worst case scenario for us. This is the climax part. Besides if the problem is spam, a better way is to just banning low effort posts like memes or funny tag. This problem exposes a lot of issue in the country which each could be a good discussion in itself.