Suggestions/Questions/Comments/et cetera post!

[secretsposter]

Hey guys. Your friendly (usually) simsecret mods have decided to make a post so that you guys have a place to tell us about your suggestions, questions, comments, and any problems you've found in a secrets post

Comments

[anonymous]

My suggestion is pretty simple:
Mods really really need to enforce the ALL of the rules consistently. Particularly and especially the one about not accepting/posting old secrets with stuff edited over them -- in this week's post alone, numbers 3 and 54 broke that rule. I don't know if they were submitted by the original posters of the secret, which made them technically "new", but they certainly didn't look "new" to me.

I know that I'm not alone on this, either -- submission posts 66 and 67, as well as several secrets from each resultant secret-post, highlight the need for consistent behavior from all mods across the board.

I don't care if you unscreen this or not; I'm posting it anonymously, after all.

[kingmike1224]

Well i do have to apologize for this week. I was in a rush to post them as they were late as it was that i did not take the time to actually check the secrets myself.

We will have a greater care when we check secrets in the future.

[orikes13]

I did notice that one obviously exceeded size limits this week (it was 750px wide). The no writing over old secrets has always confused me because it seems to be enforced sporadically.

Things happen, but the community is so big (and bitchy), that it doesn't help you guys when that type of thing happens.

[sinthe]

The thing with the "no writing over secrets" rule might be that the mods don't always remember the secret, which is necessary to properly enforce this rule. We get HUNDREDS of secrets. 50-something, the one that wrote over an old Saltfucker secret? I didn't remember the base secret until somebody pointed it out.

[orikes13]

So, ultimately it's an unenforceable rule. It's almost impossible to tell the difference between someone writing over an old secret and someone writing over a screen cap from site that they're wanting to say something about. And no one should expect the mods to have to remember every single secret that's ever posted. There's probably close to 450 posted each month at this rate.

Maybe just refine the rules to not necessarily ban it, but clarify what is allowed and isn't allowed in referencing past secrets. It was pretty lame when it would be week after week of she said/she said over the same image again and again, but sometimes it was nice to get a rebuttal with a visual reference to what they were talking about.

(I don't care if others read these either, so you can unscreen them if you want)

[anonymous]

I agree to this. I think it would be fun to allow written over secrets, but the rules says no and therefore it shouldnt be allowed. Yet secrets that do this get in the weekly post, and when people inquire about why, they get a mean and nasty remark from a mod about it. The attitude is unnecessary and quite rude. Something has got to change...change the rule or change your attitude when people question about those secrets getting in.

(You can unscreen, idc)

[redikolous]

You weren't there when there was one secret that got resubmitted oh, like FIVE times with different text over it, and the people involved just kept apologizing and apologizing. It was ridiculous. I kinda would like to allow these secrets again though.

(unscreen)