r/canadaguns • u/Cre_AK47 Name Prohibited by OIC • Jun 08 '26
Announcement Photo Comments and GIFs Are Now Live!
As per popular request, photo comments and GIFs are now live! Reddit is also rolling out video comments too very shortly. We will make an announcement when that goes live, as well! Enjoy!
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u/MBGLK Jun 08 '26
I appreciate the update, but honestly I think the logic is kind of backwards?
Everything you listed sound slike evidence that the community is functioning well enough to move away from manual approval, not evidence that it should continue.
Reports are relatively low outside major events, only a few users are getting banned each month, flair usage is improving, automod is handling more redirects, you're granting approved poster status regularly, and only 10% of posts need intervention - your words
Those are all signs of a mature community, not one that requires constant approval to post even the most mundane of things
The thing I don't understand is why r/canadaguns is being treated differently from basically every other major subreddit on Reddit. Communities much larger and far more controversial than this one don't require moderators to manually approve every post before anyone can see it.
At some point it starts to feel like the moderation team has convinced itself that the subreddit is uniquely incapable of functioning without constant oversight. That seems hard to reconcile with the actual numbers you're presenting.
The Tumbler Ridge incident gets brought up a lot, but major news events happen everywhere on Reddit. Most moderation teams respond by tightening things up during those periods, not by keeping emergency measures in place indefinitely.
To be blunt, the current system feels less like moderation and more like gatekeeping, it's not the right word but it's like (the metaphorical) you can't let go of this responsibility for the greater good or some illusion of grandeur, you're treating the community like a group of children who can't be trusted to make posts unless a moderator signs off first. Meanwhile the moderators are spending their time manually approving TM22 posts all day, which seems like a self-inflicted problem.
If the subreddit is healthy enough that only 10% of posts need redirecting and only a few users get banned each month, then it's probably healthy enough to let people post normally and deal with issues as they arise, like virtually every other successful subreddit does.