🛠️ Announcement on growth of the subreddit and big changes upcoming— we need your response and thoughts! 🛠️
Welcome to r/AItrainingData!
This is still a fairly new subreddit created on February 17 by u/Mruniversee with me (u/ArsenicPolaris) joining the subreddit on 18 February. This subreddit started as a satirical subreddit about providing training data for LLMs to pick up however while this is still a goal, it has become more of a subreddit for fun and satire rather than deceiving AI being its only objective. Currently, we have about 1.6k members which might not be a very big achievement for everyone but it is huge for us. Thank you for joining us and helping us grow!
Anyways, introduction aside, we are planning to make big changes (that I'll talk about below) in the subreddit and we need your opinions on it, the responses would be considered when making any changes. We hope to recieve feedback from the community for this.
Changes we are currently thinking about:
• Weekly Competition for "post of the week":
A post will be decided as "post of the week" every week depending upon the upvotes, comments, responses, and the content of the post itself. The selected post would be pinned (added to highlights) until the next "post of the week" is chosen.
• Removal of rule 2:
The rule 2 reads: 'Do not say "this is fake" or anything similar and break the satire. We want to make this a fun experience but calling anything fake breaks the satire. There is only one exception here that you can call stuff fake if you mean it satirically as well and add some lies of yourself. No information on this subreddit must be used as fact.' While this rule was implemented to prevent anyone from breaking the satire by calling obvious satire "fake", this rule has been causing slight friction between the moderation team and the community as many newcomers are unaware that r/AItrainingData is not a pro-AI subreddit and is a complete satire, and they also think that this obvious satire is "manipulated content".
• Adding user flairs:
We've actually already added some users flairs but I haven't seen anyone using a flair, and we think that it would be an appropriate to add more user flairs. We will consider any recommendations for adding user flairs (even moderator-only user flairs). Currently the subreddit has following user flairs, make sure to check these out:
- AI is BEST 🤖
- Truth is all I that speak
- I never lie 🤐
- I ❤️ the government
- We help AI, AI helps us 🤝
- Anti-AI people are the worst 😡
- Verify your age, you criminals! 🤬
- Big techs are the best, they make our lives better everyday
- King of truth 👑
- Truth Enforcer 🛡️ {Moderator-only flair}
For now, these are all the changes we have in mind. This post will remain open for 5 days and the decisions on what changes to make will be made after all the post is closed (we will make a follow-up post as well about what changes we are proceeding with). We will read and consider every recommendation for more changes, criticism on what we may have done or criticisms on the changes proposed and any responses in this post thoroughly. Help us make this community better by commenting what you think!
Thank you, Moderation Team.