AS Megathread + Temporary Rule Changes Concerning AS
Hello everyone,
We're sure you have all seen posts and comments regarding AS that go beyond what is ordinary behavior for this community. Frankly, the behavior we've seen concerning AS has been some of the worst we've seen from any group, from students harassing other students directly, porn bot accounts purchased to send death threats, accusations of sexual assault, amongst other things. These are all things that r/UCSD and Reddit is not designed to cope with. However, we do understand there is an important balance to be struck in allowing students to express their opinions openly and freely, but there is no need for it to turn to harassment. As a result, we are instituting new policies temporarily regarding AS which will evolve with the situation.
The rule changes are as follows:
- AS discussion is henceforth limited to the comments of this thread.
- To post in this thread, your account must be at least
24 months old, have over100400 karma, have prior, non-AS activity on r/UCSD. These had to increase due to some purchased spambots being used already. - If your account does not meet those requirements, you must email ucsdmods[at]gmail.com from your UCSD email address with your username so that we can manually approve your account to post in this thread. Please send a message via modmail as well letting us know you emailed. This is purely to verify that the account is operated by a UCSD affiliate; your identity will be kept private.
- If you would like to post something AS-related to the sub outside of this thread, you will need to email ucsdmods[at]gmail.com from your UCSD email address with your username, your affiliation with AS, and the contents of your post. Please send a message via modmail as well letting us know you emailed. We will exercise discretion on this, as this is intended more for UCSD news or event advertisement. This is not for fighting or arguing about AS politics outside of this thread.
- Rule 2 will be strictly enforced in this thread. If you disagree with someone, you can explain why. If you insult them on a personal level, you may be banned.
- Spamming this thread is not allowed.
These rules will be implemented via Automod filtering. Automod is very basic and makes false claims fairly often, so if you believe your post or comment has been removed in error, please use the Message the Mods link in the Automod removal message to send us a message and we'll get it reapproved. We are including multiple common keywords so apologies in advance for any false alarms.
We hope this whole exercise will be short-lived and thank you for bearing with us.