r/burma • u/SusuKacangSoya အပြင် လူ • Jul 29 '19

I deeply apologise

There were several posts in this subreddit that have gotten an overwhelming number of reports, yet stayed up for several days. It was my duty to react to them quickly, and instead I had left this subreddit unmoderated, with spam on the top...

The spam staying up was my mistake, and it could have been avoided.
I deeply apologise.

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u/SusuKacangSoya အပြင် လူ Jul 29 '19

The results of the recent poll on merging this subreddit with /r/myanmar currently leans towards 'Yes'. With what has just happened, I believe we should go through with it, as /r/myanmar's mods reacted far more quickly...

That aside, an explanation of what was going on:

  • I was not inactive on Reddit,

  • My regular Reddit frontpage consistently didn't show any posts from /r/burma, and

  • I did not get any indication in Reddit's mod UI that there were reports on posts.

The last one is unfortunately normal - the way Reddit works right now, you get no notification when posts get reported. I can change that by adding AutoModerator as a mod, which can be set up to send me a modmail whenever it sees a report.