Our relationship with other sub / transparency
Hello all, Mr. Mod ⛰️ here with a recursive fanbase post. As many of us are aware, this subreddit split from the old subreddit a couple of years ago on account of heavy-handed censorship. Since then, the mod team at r/Grimes has been overhauled and while the new mod Soup (u/SoupDestroyer123) has generally been less heavy-handed than their predecessors, there is obviously still a degree of censorship.
Soup recently messaged me to suggest some sort of official separation/federation between this sub and r/Grimes whereby we "cooperate" and have some kinda official division between our subs. In Soup's view, discussions about music (if music ever materializes) are to be confined to r/Grimes and personal life gossip/tinfoiling/Musk disgust here at r/grimezs.
My personal opinion is that this division would be another way to facilitate censorship on r/Grimes and isolate discussions about Claire's personal life or associations so that they exist in bubble here, away from her fanbase, and away from a subreddit with membership of 50K. I also think that people should be able to discuss whatever they want wherever they want.
I was the one who suggested a poll to let people decide. Soup never did, though later agreed this would be a fair course of action. Soup's initial message to me requested that we both "enforce the clear separation, where both subreddits could live in harmony, but strictly stick to each affairs" and that they are "trying to attend to the interests of Grimes fans, who are not interested in controversial gossip." It was me who responded and said: "Given my idealism about democracy etc I think this is a question best put to my sub members."
Soup said that I then refused to go the poll route - I never actually refused, I'm busy and left the topic open ended and figured there was no real rush given that Soup wasn't posting any polls on their sub. My other concern was that a subreddit of 50k could essentially decide the future content of this smaller subreddit, which seemed undemocratic for our users. But, given that Soup has now made a post on the other sub directing people here, and trying to enforce the division anyway, I'm addressing these behind-the-scenes happenings.
Out of general curiousity, I'll make a non-binding poll just to see what people think about this proposed division! And for the sake of clarity, this sub and its users condemn and despise nazism and its supporters. Because apparently that needs to be said these days.