PSA: No more U-20 related threads

[u/ClosetMugger]

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.

[u/SonicsLV]

Is this going to be a precedent going forward for this sub? Not that I disagree with consolidating a topic into a megathread, but honestly it's still very mild (in the amount of posts and discussion) compared to other "trends", Sambo or Mario case for example. If it is, what the guidelines for future trending topic to be consolidated and forced into single megathread instead? If not, why this topic is an exception? It's very related to indonesia afterall, so technically not violating any sub rules.

Also while we at it, any mods want to give explanation of locked and removed comment chain in the first thread of the U-20 cancellation? I don't see anything worth forced removal in that comment chain and everyone actually still taking in civil discussion when suddenly that chain is locked and removed.

[u/ClosetMugger → u/SonicsLV]

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.

[u/isummons → u/ClosetMugger]

Towards certain grup itu maksudnya timnya Ganjar mod?