The Revamp Of r/CookieRunKingdoms

Next: https://www.reddit.com/r/CookieRunKingdoms/comments/1iklj90/the_philosophy_of_gacha_posts_the_revamp_of/

sorry for the URL, if I add a hyperlink directly reddit eats the images on this post for some reason

Hey y'all!

Over the next, I don't know, maybe week or two, the sub is going to be undergoing a lot of changes. I'm planning on rolling out changes to make things easier to understand and to enforce higher quality of content on the sub. Many of these things will be things that many of you have (understandably) complained about, such as

  • Sweeping of repetitive content such as people asking where their awakened character went
  • Rethinking our stance on gacha posts
  • Putting in more guard rails to ensure that the rules are more clear, so that people who break them take down their own posts themselves so that I don't have to :|

Why the change?

These are actually things that I've wanted to do for a while. Normally, if we are to do anything to change the sub, I'd consult with the rest of the team, because, y'know, that's the right thing to do when there's four of you in charge of babysitting over 100,000 people. Sometimes when I check the sub on my phone it'll actually say we're a sub that's, like, top 1%, or top 25 in phone games or something.

Problem is, uh, what team? Lemme show you guys a peek behind the curtain here.

I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO'S BEEN DOING ANYTHING

https://preview.redd.it/1ykpip9l2qhe1.png?width=899&format=png&auto=webp&s=f8d0bb8d2e1e06b23de482f319bf08fa5e38c1dd

Have you been wondering why posts that break the rules still stay up? Have you been banned for something because you figured it was okay to post that thing since a bunch of other people have posted that thing? Yeah, it's because it's been almost entirely me. Look at that chart above. 97% of the sub's business has been me. I'm the one sweeping all the posts. I'm the one banning all the repeat rulebreakers. (sorry)

And, like, look, it's not really THAT much of an ask. Every few hours I'll go through the feed and hit "delete" on some stuff. Sometimes I'll check if the person who posting something I delete has done that before, and if they do, I might hit them for a week. But like. Before all this happened, I was actually lower on the mod team list? A lot of the other guys were given the "everything" permission while I was only given select ones like deleting posts and banning people YET I'M THE ONLY PERSON DOING ANYTHING

If I have to be the guy that does everything then just let me be the sub owner at that point :/ At least then I can clean up all the aforementioned things I said I wanted to revamp

No seriously let me drill in to this

It turns out Reddit has an automated system in place that will reach out to your sub if you suddenly get an unusually large influx of content relative to how much you normally get. This is to ensure that mods (hey, did you notice I used a plural there? As in more than one? Yeah.) don't get swamped if things suddenly get really hectic. Like if it turned out everyone decided they were thirsty for a gingerbread clown. Y'know. Hypothetically.

https://preview.redd.it/hhl82tdx3qhe1.png?width=664&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a347a500ee6732a94e5c9589530fcfb607194b8

This automated message told me that FOR THE PAST MONTH, I was the only person doing something they'd probably recommend having ten people do.

Look. Despite what me being a moderator implies, I have a life. I can't be spending all of it on THIS. I stopped playing this game YEARS AGO. Hell, Tower of Adventures came out, and I stopped playing that too. Sheesh.

I had to go through Reddit's (automated? I'm not even sure) mod help tools to explain that I've been the only person steering this ship for AT LEAST a year, possibly longer. It took them about a week to get back to me. I did keep the old sub owner on the team out of courtesy, though.

Now what?

Today is going to be reserved for just this big ol' announcement post. Over... uh, [insert timeframe here] I'm going to make additional posts where we can all discuss what we want to do about various community sore spots.

https://preview.redd.it/16585nfq4qhe1.png?width=707&format=png&auto=webp&s=a8592fff1d7039aa5eda0ab489d100a20e558160

To people who have made posts like this complaining: I'm with you on this! I hadn't taken any hard steps on this yet because I didn't want to shake things up too much without asking the rest of the mod team first. Except there is no rest of the mod team. So screw it. :/

Thank you for being a part of r/CookieRunKingdoms! Please keep an eye out for additional posts about the sub revamp.