State of the Sub and Direction moving forward

Ok yall. For those of us that haven’t met, I’m B1gR1g and I’m a lifelong Memphian and long time r/Memphis user. Definitely not the oldest, but I’ve been around a while, and I have always tried to contribute entertaining and often meaningful content to the sub. I have not been as active in the last few years, but I still try to make all my interactions purposeful and helpful, and that’s why I come to you today.

As of late, I have seen more and more content here that is dividing us, low effort, karma farming and straying further and further away from the r/Memphis that I know. There is extreme division between users and that is to be expected in a city/sub as diverse as ours.

I never want to stifle discussions but I would like to appeal to everyone to refocus on why they joined this sub in the first place, an interest and passion for our city. I have tried to come up with ways to help realign the sub, but what are things that y’all want to see here? If the current content is what yall are here for, then I can respect that and apologize for my assumption but if you want something different and have ideas, I am ready to help as I can. So what do yall want out of the sub?

Edit: Tuesday Update

So what I’m getting is yall definitely want weekly stickied events/happenings posts, that can easily happen.

Decreased repetitive posts (Where to live, where to eat, what to do, will I be safe if I stay ) : what used to work well was an auto response copy pasta I had for these and I am happy to update it and make a few new ones like is it safe to live _ based on some generic zip code data that then directs them to use the search. It doesn’t stop the posts (we don’t want to be r/Nashville) but it politely answers it and tends to cut down on cluttered posts. Once I have them done I’ll Post for review

New and different mods: looks like one person volunteered and anyone else that is interested is welcome to message the mods with your interest.

Less trolls/troll posts: it’s Reddit so it’s going to happen, but Rule one is never feed the trolls. Do not engage with blatant trolling, downvote and if appropriate report the comment/post to the mods. If you are posting think is this related to Memphis/Midsouth or r/Memphis meta? If it isn’t a one step connection then there is probably a better sub for it.