The moderation team has been receiving more negative feedback over time about success stories. Most success stories already get redirected to the current "Triumphant Thursday" thread, but we've been allowing submissions that include significant advice or information.
Unfortunately, it seems like a large proportion of the most-upvoted stories leave out important details such as windfalls, financial help from parents, etc. We also see a lot of stories that seem to get upvoted very high (based on the title, perhaps), but the discussion is often much more negative once people have read the details... and any advice seems to be hopelessly lost in the process.
On a more positive note, we've seen the "Moronic Monday Thread" extending its utility far beyond Monday so we'd really like to keep a general help thread up for the entire week rather than bumping it Thursday and Friday for the "Triumphant Thursday Thread". (We only get two sticky posts and we like using one slot for weekly threads and the other slot for 30-day challenges, the "read this first!" post, and megathreads.)
So, we're going to try changing things up a bit:
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"Weekday Help Thread" is the new name for "Moronic Monday" and the thread will remain up until the weekend. We decided against splitting it into daily threads because we think it'll help avoid having questions fall through the cracks and it'll make it less difficult to find topics, but we may revisit this later.
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"Weekend Discussion and Victory Thread" will subsume "Triumphant Thursdays" and "Weekend Discussion". Questions are still okay in this thread, of course!
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ALL success stories now need to be posted in the weekend thread. If success/victory/thanks/bragging is part of your title or a significant part of your submission text, we're going to ask you to post your story in the weekend thread.
We're making these changes based on the considerable feedback we've received on the weekly threads, but if you have any comments or other feedback (on anything, not just this), please let us know here.
Submitted July 24, 2017 at 02:30PM by dequeued http://ift.tt/2v0Rrgs
