Intro Hi everyone! It’s been a while since we last checked in with the community. If you live in the northern hemisphere, we hope you’ve been enjoying the beautiful spring weather, and if you live in the southern hemisphere, well, WINTER IS COMING. (Game of Thrones references are still relevant in 2023, right?) Before we get down to business, let’s highlight some fun stats for the period between April 1st, 2022 and April 1st, 2023: Thanks to all of you for making this community such an awesome place to be. Without your wit, insight, and love of the trending GIF button, … Continue reading State of the Avocado (May 5, 2023)

Greetings, Guacs! We hope you’ve been enjoying the brisk fall weather (spring if you’re one of our southern-hemisphere community members) and imbibing copious amounts of pumpkin spice-flavoured beverages. It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with you, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to talk about some stuff that has been happening on the site. But before we dive into the nitty-gritty of site moderation, let’s talk about some highlights from the year so far. Since our last State of the Avocado in January 2020, you folks have created over 5,000 threads, including new features like A Trek … Continue reading State of The Avocado (October 15th, 2021)

So this is pretty much just me trying to get some site feedback. Other mods are aware and all but just thought we could kinda chat about some stuff, mostly Site (WordPress and Disqus) related and less things like warnings and bans and rules. With the understanding that ya know, I really am trying to keep the place running but this isn’t like my full time job or anything. So let’s not get too crazy with any sorta ideas. But still do wanna talk about some things and get the temperature of the site end of things. First, I wanna … Continue reading State of the Site Town Hall

Hey folks. Been a while. On one hand, that means we didn’t have any huge fires to put out in the last few months. Good! On the other hand, it doesn’t mean there haven’t been issues to address. Not so good. Mainly, there have been two areas where we’ve been wanting to get better as a moderation team: Simplify the rules. As often happens with rule books, the old rules were the result of organic growth over time, and thus had become rather … verbose. This sometimes made them hard to interpret. For the community when it came to the … Continue reading State of the Channel: Rule Revamp

Hello, lovely people! As some may recall, way back in the, uhm, ancient times of the last few weeks, we put out a call for new moderators. Much to everyone’s surprise — mostly our own — we didn’t actually forget about that! However, as is noticeable, it did take us a while to figure everything out. But we finally did! Okay, not, like, EVERYTHING everything, but at least how many new mods to add and who. Baby steps. First of all, thank you so much to everybody who applied! Even if we didn’t end up going with you, we still … Continue reading Mod Squad: The Grand Embiggening!

Hey folks. We’re happy to announce a few things we’ve been working on, along with some general updates. Mod Feedback Survey As announced in the last SotA, we’ve set up a form where you can send in anonymous feedback to us. The purpose of this is to allow you to voice concerns about one of us as well as other users under the protection of anonymity. The results will be processed by Anna, Kaywise and dw. And if you have something nice to say, feel free to do that too! Survey link is here. Thank you for your help! How … Continue reading State of the Channel: March 2020

Hello Avocados! So, after the events of the last couple of weeks, the Avocado Mod Team took an entire week to discuss some major and minor changes to how we moderate. We want every Avocado to feel this is a safe, fun space for them, and we think a lot of these changes will help with that. A lot of users expressed concerns that more procedures for moderation would mean less protection of vulnerable groups: please be reassured this couldn’t be further from the truth! These procedures are meant to increase transparency, NOT to decrease mod action, especially action meant … Continue reading HUGE State of the Avocado: 1/27/2020

Greetings, Avocados! It’s been a busy few months since the last State of the Avocado. For some, like the many wonderful people we’ve seen come in from Pajiba’s comment section, this is your first time seeing a SotA; please don’t be intimidated that we have a long one this time. New Rules and Guidelines As a general note: Rules are non-negotiable and violations thereof may lead to official warnings or bannings. With guidelines, there’s a bit more flexibility, depending on context. Guidelines are things we’d like you to keep in mind when posting, rules are things  you need to follow … Continue reading State of the Avocado: 9/20/2019

Greetings guacs, it’s time once again for the State of the Avocado! Where we gather together to warm our hearts around the updates to the rules and guidelines that keep the site running smoothly and discuss ideas and changes we want to see. First, some updates and reminders. Thirst posts We are aware that the rules around this are somewhat nebulous, and it’s often a “we know it when we see it” situation. Nevertheless we will still be removing posts that are nothing but objectification of people of any gender. This includes just sharing images for the purpose of talking … Continue reading State of the Avocado – May 2019

It’s been a while since we had one of these, so here is your State of the Channel for 2019, guaranteed to contain less incoherence than the recent American State of the Union. Here are some updates, reminders, and refreshers on the glue that holds our site together. Thread Posting Open Threads should be kept relatively short for our many mobile readers, and we ask that posts with more than 3 static images or 1 gif/video use the slideshow feature on WordPress to keep loading easier and open threads more accessible. Instructions for the slideshow feature can be found here. You can also … Continue reading State of the Avocado – Feb 2019

Hi everyone! Here is your State of the Channel: Holiday Edition!   Giftmas is coming – if you have signed up to participate in that, check out details here.   End-of-the-Year pop culture lists are nigh… we usually call them The Pits; please go to here to discuss who is doing what and how and why if you are thinking of doing something so people can coordinate!    As always, the rules and guidelines are here , and you can always go to the Site Info tab to read updates and clarifications about them.  There are several ways of reporting problematic … Continue reading State of the Channel Holiday Edition

It’s time for another State of the Avocado update! The format for this one will be a little different. We (the mods) felt that some of the rules and guidelines needed a refresher and clarification. So below, we are going to have a subthread containing more detailed information for each rule and guideline. If you have any questions or want any clarification at all about a rule or guideline, ask in its subthread. The mod team will answer! Note here that if your question is basically “can we get rid of this rule or guideline?” the answer will be no. … Continue reading State of the Avocado: Rules Deep Dive Edition