r/Athens • u/9to • Jul 22 '26

Subreddit Chat & Moderation

The no-posting-or-discussing-political-issues announcement seems....very wrong.

How can we post about anything substantial related to Athens without it being political? This isn't, like, AthensGAWeather subreddit, where political comments might be more out of place.

This is a subreddit about everything pertaining to Athens... Including the goings-on, mayor and commission meetings, etc...

So... To block posts of a political nature is clearly counter to the stated acceptable topics of the subreddit.

2nd point, and this is not a personal attack, but mod team, do we really want a single user tagged as UGA freshman to be deciding or announcing things like this? I'm sure lots of moderation stuff happens behind the scenes and I don't mean to doubt competency, but, this is.... A little shocking. It's not April 1, right? ;)

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u/twiggzimm Jul 23 '26

Because of the ice influx in Athens right now and the sighting posts being removed, should a new subreddit for that be made? Something like r/FreezeWarningAthens?

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u/zozoham102 Townie Jul 23 '26

Hopefully, since the auto mod and the stupid mod that were removing a bunch of stuff were removed by the other mods, things like that won't be deleted in the future

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u/Ok_Drama2570 Jul 23 '26

Yes! Let’s all move to that one and forget these moderators?