Hello Thinkers! This is a long one... First up: when I wrote this post, I used rich text editor to bold some of the headings. Also, dashes are just part of my normal punctuation. I promise this isn't AI. Moving on... In this post, we're going to introduce a new mod - and reintroduce the old ones, for all our new users. To do this, we all answered the same questions: Name/Job-or-Study? What group/s do you stan? Who's your ult? How'd you get into kpop? After, we'll give you some information about the sub rule and banned topics. First up - welcome to our new mod: Penta_verse Hi I’m KJ. I’m a Criminology major and have been into KPOP for 10 years. My ults are Pentagon, I-DLE, CLC and 4Minute which means hating Cube is my entire personality. I’ve also been following XLOV lately and casually listen to a lot of other groups. And our old mods: reallyn0tme Hi, i’m nasi. I’m the attack dog of the team and I will protect my babies if anyone tries anything with them 🫶🏼I study political science and strategic management. My first experience with kpop was SHINee’s Lucifer and it was life changing. I was into BTS all the way back in 2013, but then emo happened, and My Chemical Romance. These days, I ult NCT 127 and Stray Kids, with Jaehyun and Bang Chan as my ults respectively. Rachelmig2 Hi everyone! I’m Rachel, I’m an attorney that does mostly domestic violence and child law. I’ve been into kpop since 2019, and am very unfortunately a survival show enthusiast, so my favorite groups are ZB1, Kep1er, TripleS (who has many survival show alums), and of course the good ol’ group that got me into kpop, Monsta X. I’m also a big fan of Izna, WJSN, Chuu, Jo Yuri, and ARTMS. I go to a ton of concerts so I’ve seen a huge amount of groups live, and am always up to chat about them! I do my best to be open and honest with people regarding moderation, and am always open to feedback on how to improve the sub. lucichameleon I'm Luci. I studied Political Science/International Relations at uni. I'm not really a stan of anything, more a multi-casual. I don't watch lives or buy merch or follow idols on socmed or whatever. I listen the most to Stray Kids. Other groups on my playlists are SVT, BTS, ENHYPEN, NMIXX, BLACKPINK, Red Velvet, LE SSERAFIM and aespa. I first listened to kpop around 2014-ish with 2NE1, but really got into it after watching The Untamed, with Wang Yibo. I listened to UNIQ and wanted more. csiqueiros15 Hello, I’m Cici! I studied physics and music and now work in astronomy. My ult group was NU’EST (rip), but my favorite active group is Stray Kids ❤️. I got into kpop back in 2010 when I saw SHINee’s Ring Ding Dong MV at my local comicon (kpop v. jpop panel). I’ve been obsessed ever since! Future-Firefighter62 Hey everyone! I’m Vivi! I am a musician and I also study music production and recording engineering. My current ults are Stray Kids, but I’m a huge multistan and listen to almost every group out there, old and new! I got into KPOP after seeing EXO and CL’s performances at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and my first ults were BTS, BP, and TWICE! Agentariana Hi I’m Ari. I studied international affairs in college and have the weird history of getting into kpop 3 separate times before it stuck. The first was in 2011ish when I saw a local news interest story about a local kid who joined a kpop group that were having a concert (U-KISS). During that era I listened to a lot of SHINee, EXO and BIGBANG, the second time was in 2015ish when BTS was blowing up and the third was 2019ish when I found NCT. NCT Dream are my ults, but I listen to a lot of different groups: ZB1, CYE, Stray Kids, izna and Kep1er are just some of the groups I listen to frequently. Like Rachel, I am a survival show junkie (name a show and there is a good chance I have watched it) and like Nasi I had an emo/pop punk era leading to a very eclectic playlist. In the comments... how about you? How did you get into kpop, what groups do you listen to, who is your ult and why? Now - on to the sub news! A while ago, we overhauled our sub rules in response to feedback from you guys. You wanted fewer locked posts and removals and more leniency when it came to negative opinions. We've done our best to address that. First, we lifted the number of reports that would see a post auto-locked by a lot. When we lock a post - which isn't usual - we always pin a comment to say why. We've also been trying to leave contentious opinions - as long as they're not insulting or obviously back-handed - alone, so that discussion isn't just... I don't know, a heap of forced positivity. Regarding Rule 5: No Low Effort Content, if you post a poll please also spark some discussion by writing something to explain what and why you are polling. When we introduced the rule overhaul, we specified that copy-pasting news articles with little-to-no commentary was low effort, but we're still getting a fair few of those type of posts. Firstly, news goes on r/kpop and secondly, just copy-pasting really is low effort. If you want to discuss something, rather than just dumping the article, write a post about what's happened and what you think about it, then link the news at the end. But remember: no X! Musk's sweaty paws aren't invited. We also do our best to only remove comments that are being malicious. I'm sure we sometimes get it wrong. The rules of the sub hadn't changed much for a long time, so sometimes we still do things the old way out of habit. Please note, calling other users insane or telling them that they are mentally ill for their opinions is an insult and will be treated as such. There are two rules of the sub that get automatic temp bans - Rule 1 (no insults) and Rule 11 (no censoring of words). If there are enough characters left (rule length is limited) we will add text to standardise the length of these bans. Also, it's not uncommon for people to use gifs or emojis or roundabout phrasing to talk about banned topics. Discussions with the OP talking about 'a certain fandom' or 'a certain topic' are just going to be taken down. Half the discussion turns into a debate about what the OP meant. Say what you are talking about. If you can't because it would break sub rules, then don't say it at all. We're going to start temp banning people for posting about topics that are clearly on our banned list as well, because that's just annoying. Now - speaking of banned topics. We're going to add two. The first is not because it's bad or contentious, but because it's stale as fuck. Minors debuting/sexualisation of minors. Yes minors are a problem, no it is not going to change and no someone is not evil for liking an idol that debuted as long as they are not a weirdo. The posts are always the same and we're going to start taking them down. The second is also a stale topic, and its discussions on whether kpop-adjacent groups are kpop or not. We had the discussion, and it was decided - yes, people want to discuss kpop-adjacent groups here. If you don't want to discuss them, ignore the posts. And finally: the sub’s banner. You probably noticed that it stayed the same for ages and hasn’t been changing much at all. That’s because the mod who did them isn’t modding anymore. But, Luci’s taken it over. She begs forgiveness because she’s not very good at art or design. Luci wants to showcase some lesser known and/or older groups in the banner for a while. The next banner is going to be for Apink. Comment to suggest some other groups or soloists that you would like to see in the sub’s banner! submitted by /u/KpopThoughtsmodteam [link] [comments]
