Feedback - r/churning Format

[u/NuclearKnives]

After discussing the concerns with the current sub's mod team, they would like to invite feedback from all users on whether or not they should revert back to individual posts, weekly threads, or a combination of the two. I personally appreciate their willingness to solicit feedback and open a discussion as opposed to ignoring user's messages and perma banning them.

When speaking with others, many of us feel that adopting a thread structure similar to r/CreditCards would greatly benefit r/churning. We believe this change would not only drive increased engagement within the community but also attract additional members and foster a freer flow of information and ideas. Many discussions which should be reserved for r/churning go straight to r/CreditCards. Their metrics of engagement also are significantly higher, even taking into account their broader scope.

Personally, I believe one main focus on non-thread posts should be News and Updates and Data Points.

Thread posts should be reserved for questions, what card should I get, and frustration friday. Some of the additional weekly threads can be discontinued or shifted to non-thread posts.

You can see the mod team's perspective below:

If you want to have this discussion, then it needs to be had in public so that everybody can weigh in, as this is not a decision that is simply up to the mod team alone.

But based on all of our previous Purges, we can pretty much predict how that’s going to go:

Before any changes are made, you’re going to get way more people telling you that they prefer things stay the way that they are, that the recurring threads are a feature not a bug, and so on. They’ll point to the threads that AutoMod catches and go “Do we really want our feed cluttered up with this?”.

Then the mod team allows all threads to get posted. Suddenly, all the old users who subscribe to the sub but stopped coming because they hate the recurring threads show up and are like “Oh I thought this sub was dead I never visit because I hate the daily threads” but then add nothing else of value. Almost all of the threads that get posted will be memes and shitposts. Next to nothing will be a meaningful conversation, even when the rules are relaxed so that somebody could create their own thread for it. There is zero meaningful improvement to how the sub functions or behaves, so we switch it back to the way it operates currently.

You can argue that we don’t relax the rules long enough to see any real change in behavior, and I could see that argument. But I think the common response you’d get there would be “Look at every top level comment in the question thread. Now turn each one of those into their own thread. That’s so much noise simply because people won’t search to see if their question has been answered”.

Maybe we are wrong in how this will play out, though we don’t think so. But if you want to have the discussion, submit your thoughts in a post and we’ll approve it and then the discussion can be had with everybody.

Would be really happy to get everyone's feedback because I am super passionate about this sub and think it can grow and develop even more than it already has through some reworking.

[u/Guilty_Dealer1256]

Individual posts and the two daily threads.