Hey everyone! Long time no speak. I've been busy with life shit, so I truly appreciate doing most of the heavy lifting lately with moderation.
In the last week or so shit has gone off the rails with regards to how other [decidedly pro-Tesla and pro-Elon] subreddits interact with this subreddit and its users. So I want to take a minute to address how we will contain this going forward.
When I founded the subreddit many moons ago, this was simply intended to be a place to be critical of Tesla, Elon Musk, or anything in that universe. At the time, Reddit was heavily pro-Musk, and there weren't many places you could be negative about the Elon-verse without being downvoted or banned, so I made one.
Not that I'm taking a victory lap [even though I totally am], but the hivemind seems to have come around to our general opinion that Elon and Tesla are....not great. As such we're seeing an odd dynamic in how new users interact with the pro-Tesla subs and our sub. Predictably, drama ensues.
What I would like to do is re-focus on why this subreddit exists in the first place - a place to be critical of Musk/Tesla, or even defending Musk/Tesla against the critics, WITHOUT being banned. Anyone discussing/debating in good faith is welcome - encouraged, actually - to be here to minimize the inevitable circlejerk.
We're aware that a lot of you have been pre-emptively banned from pro-Tesla subreddits simply because you visited this sub. That's ridiculous, obviously, and I have reported this [and the uptick in false 'harassment' reporting] to the admins, and we're in a discussion about dealing with that - let us handle it.
But in the meantime, let's just avoid those subs and the drama that comes with them. We aren't going to change the mind of Elon stans, and they're not going to change ours [most likely]. That horse is already out of the barn.
So let's just voluntarily avoid those subreddits and let them have their peace so that we can have ours. Again, it's why we here - a safe place to be critical. Let's leave it at that.
That said, we have added Rule #9 - no posts about other subreddits, including discussions of bans or screenshots of mod discussions. Let's remove any perception of contributing to the drama, brigading, or anything else. It isn't very interesting, honestly, and our time is better spent discussing things in the real world outside Reddit.
So welcome back, keep doing what we do here, but let's let the other subs do what they will - it's ultimately to their own detriment anyway.
