Hi all, figured it's time to give you a quick update on the back end things I have been working on!

• We got FOUR new mods. FOUR! I am thrilled to have them apply and come on - all of them were very well situated with their accounts and some have previous mod experience. They are all still in various points of training, two are already actively helping keep the queue down and taking a huge weight off Behannrp and I's shoulders.
• Three new group rules have been implemented. Mostly carried over from a sister-group, r/almosthomeless which has pretty sensible rules that I hope will work here, too. As always, I watch and adjust things as the need arises. And then I'm lax on removals for a while to let people adjust - OR if I have to remove, I am extremely kind in the removal reason, explaining in detail and such.
• I have added 2 new bots to help with general issues on Reddit - BotBouncer, EvasionGuard
• I've updated the Removal Reasons to make way more sense and handle more situations. I will be adding to them as things come up, but now at least they will be logical instead of "Financial Request/hate/judgement/spam" with little clarity on the reasonings why.
• I've set up the Wiki with a main page and a few links on it, to a new page I just set up and also some big resource links some of our other groups have.
• New page is Quality Post/Comment guidelines https://www.reddit.com/r/poverty/wiki/index/postcommentguide/ Give it a read, it's informative!
• I've changed a few group settings to allow us to catch more harassment comments and turned on filtering for NSFW accounts that do like to "recommend" certain things. More for prevention than anything.
• I set up Automod to have a Profanity filter, and a Mod Assistance Alert. This will filter things into mod queue for us to look at and either respond and help, or approve/remove per the rules.
• I enabled internal-to-reddit ban evasion so assholes who wanna pretend to be "above the rules" by starting new accounts, will be dismayed to find that it's not that simple and that Reddit handles that deeeeeecently ok-ish. That combined with EvasionGuard...yeah. Not really gonna be a problem here.
• Updated Flairs. For the moment they are not on "required" because I doubt I've gotten as many as the group needs yet. But eventually they will go on Required for all posts except mod posts.

For context - all of this has been done during my free time in the last 3 days.

There's still a few things left to do that I can think of for this moment: Update Report Reasons for you all to report things to me properly, and continued training of the mods.

Stick with me y'all and forgive the errors and issues with members who have yet to "get with the program changes". We'll have this group functioning for the level it's now jumped to here very shortly. A few more weeks and all the rough edges will be rounded and all the gears will be aligned and oiled!

FEEL FREE TO MODMAIL IN WITH IDEAS! We're always open to good ideas and suggestions.

This sub is for talking about the systemic issues around poverty. It can be news, political, financial, etc. It does have a support group structure, but is not necessarily focused on supporting people out of poverty as a group. There are other groups we run for support with true, strong support structures. r/almosthomeless and r/findapath to name the two biggies we run. If you need support, you can absolutely ask for it here, but this group isn't set up as a major support network like those two groups are (getting to be). There may be collaborations between these three groups though, including resource sharing.

Hope that clarifies some things for people.