Hi Everyone,
Unfortunately our attempts to stem the flow of toxicity, hatred and other general misconduct from users who refuse to read and follow our rules within the On-Air discussions for A Love Other Than Yours have been unsuccessful so we will be requiring anyone wishing to participate in these discussions moving forward to have an On-Air Passport.
If you wish to participate in the On-Air discussions for A Love Other Than Yours, please read this post in full and follow the instructions to be granted a flair which acts as an access pass.
General Overview
What is it?
The On-Air passport is a specific user flair-base which acts as an access pass to certain specific drama discussions. The On-Air passport can only be granted by a member of the moderation team. We use /u/Automoderator to grant them to our users in a sign up post (this post). Accounts which do not have this flair-base will have their comments automatically removed from the On-Air discussion and receive a message directing them to this sign up post.
Please note that while automod may grant you a user flair if you follow instructions within this post, in order to participate you will also need to have an account in good standing and a positive karma rating.
Additionally, the mod team reserves the right to revoke access passes based on problematic behavior within our community (which includes r/kdramarecommends) outside of the On-Air discussions for A Love Other Than Yours.
How does it work?
Users without this flair base will have their comments automatically removed from A Love Other Than Yours On-Air discussions by automod. The flair base is a requirement for participating.
As this flair is a mod-only flair you won't be able to edit your flair text once it is set by automod, so please set your flair to the text you want before proceeding to the comment section below.
The flair base requirement applies only to the On-Air discussions for A Love Other Than Yours and does not apply to any other posts in our community such as our FFAs or monthly recurring posts. If you do not plan on participating in these On-Air discussions, there is no need to get the flair.
Will this post be open for the duration of the drama?
We hope so. One of the aims of this is to reduce our moderation load by having users read and understand our expectations for conduct. We do not want to spend our free time reading people’s arguments when we could be watching dramas instead. However, if our moderation load becomes excessive we will lock this post until things calm down.
Expectations For Conduct in A Love Other Than Yours On-Airs
On-Air discussions are for our users to safely discuss the drama, A Love Other Than Yours. If you cannot discuss the drama civilly, you will be excluded.
Users may have differing opinions on characters, plot, the overall drama, etc. Everyone has the right to have different tastes and opinions, there is no right or wrong here. The spirit of discussion in this subreddit is to delve into the details and intricacies in what we watch, what our opinions are, and how we feel about what we watched.
Required Reading Before Participation in the On-Airs
Users participating in any On-Air discussions in r/KDRAMA should read and follow our On-Air-Rules (section 5 of our Rules), a subset of rules tailored for our On-Air discussions. These rules specifically cover permitted user conduct, content and frequency of comments, and spoilers in On-Air discussions.
These rules can be found in section 5 of our full rules or as a standalone section.
Suggested reading:
We strongly recommend users also read the following before participating in any discussions on /r/KDRAMA: (1) Reddiquette, (2) our Conduct Rules (3) our Conduct Related Policies, (4) our Moderation Policy, and (5) the When Discussions Get Personal Post.
These five items form the basis of our expectations of civil behavior in our community, we expect all users to conduct themselves in line with the standards and expectations set forth in them.
By acquiring the flair for access to On-Air discussions for A Love Other Than Yours you are affirming that you have read the On-Air Rules and will follow them while conducting yourself in line with our expectations set forth in the suggested reading linked above.
Most Common Forms of Misconduct we are targeting
The following are the most common forms of misconduct that we moderate. Please avoid such behavior.
Users Making Things Personal: Do not engage in personal attacks, including attributing certain qualities or labels to a user based on their commentary. We suggest to review the tone of your comment is not rude or aggressive before clicking "comment".
Discussing other users:* Rather than discussing other users or other people in general watching the drama, please stick to discussing the drama that this thread is dedicated to. Keep in mind that everyone is allowed to have a different watch experience, opinions and reasons for watching the drama. There is no singular “correct” reaction to the drama.
Users Not respecting cast & crew: Do not make personal comments about the cast or crew and be respectful of their privacy. It's totally fine to critique the drama respectfully but please refrain from personal attacks against those involved in the creation of the drama.
Violence: We get that there are some incredibly hateful characters in this drama but please refrain from listing explicit injuries or graphic violence you would like to see happen or perform on the characters.
Profanity: Use of profanity has been increasing as the drama goes along, as per our profanity policy we strongly discourage use of any profanity. Comments that are found to include excess or concealed profanity will be removed.
Users bringing in drama from other communities: This subreddit is for the discussion of Korean dramas. If you want to discuss [x/MDL/IMDb/other subreddit/etc]'s drama go elsewhere.
Consequences Of Misconduct
A single comment removed by the moderation team due to misconduct will result in a minimum 30 day ban from r/KDRAMA. You will not be eligible to re-enter the discussions.
Comments which fail to follow On-Air rules such as comment limitations, comment quality, use of spoiler tags will be actioned as normal.
If we have a large number of new accounts causing issues we will stop allowing new accounts from participating in these discussions altogether.
Any extremely problematic behavior will result in overall bans from r/KDRAMA community (including r/kdramarecommends) and may be reported to reddit admin.
Reporting Conduct Issues
Reports that are helpful:
Reporting users who break our conduct rules e.g. make personal attacks, make racist comments, use hate speech etc.
If someone makes a personal attack on you please report it immediately and walk away. Retaliating will only earn you a ban.
If a user contacts you via private message regarding your comments in these threads, see our advice here on what to do.
Reports that are unhelpful:
Reporting comments you do not like. Just ignore them; or if you really don’t like the user’s opinions you can always block them.
Using the report function to block people is no longer necessary. Selecting random report reasons is a waste of mod time, please use the block function as explained here.
Once you have read and understood the above, including the On-Air rules, please comment, "I will follow the On-Air Rules" as a direct reply to this post to receive your On-Air Passport.
By commenting “I will follow the On-Air Rules” to this post, you are affirming that you have read this entire post and the On-Air rules linked in the Required Reading section, and will behave in accordance to the standards and expectations outlined in them.
FAQ:
See our On-Air Passport wiki for FAQ including "Why is the password not working for me?" or "Where can I find the password?"
Questions?
If you have any questions regarding this or anything else relating to the A Love Other Than Yours On-Air discussions please contact the moderation team by sending a mod-mail. Please do not directly message individual mods or our host, u/meepmochi_.
Do not leave any comments other than the required ones below. This post is not for commentary or discussion, it is simply for you to read, respond to, and to be granted a flair passport. If you have any issues send a mod-mail.
