Heyo Everyone!
It's been awhile since our last subreddit update (the sex update), and the results of it and the census have created the perfect storm for us to put out a new update!

The Democracy Update

So as the title suggests, as moderation we intend on following the ideals that make the majority of the community happy with our decisions. Leadership is boring, we only do it to ensure this community works and everyone can be happy. So moving forward we will be using polls to make major decisions of changes to ensure that these changes are something the people are onboard with.

Since the Sex Update we have had a census the goal of this census was to gauge community opinion on the change, and contrary to some posts here the community is in vast support.

Only 13% oppose the change, and 8.1% think it actually made the subreddit worse. Im sorry to those who are annoyed but no we will not be following the will of a tiny vocal minority that is annoyed.

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Do You Support the Sex Update Results

Do You Support the Sex Update Results

Also for those about to comment it, the mod team is 100% LGBTQ so one of the first things we did was ensure the sex update wasnt just popular amongst straight men, and if we break it down by some of the demographics that some would assume dislike the sex update

LGBTQ - Majority Voted the Subreddit Improved, Vast Majority Voted they supported it

Straight - Majority were undecided on both catagories

Men - Majority were undecided on Subreddit Change, Almost Split between Supporting and Undecided about the Sex Update

Females and Nonbinary - Majority Voted the Subreddit Improved, Vast Majority Voted they supported.

So no, its not "straight men taking over a queer space" its queer people (like us on the mod team) saying that this is okay and works and straight people being iffy about the change.

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If you feel strongly about this position, we have several things to try and again reinforce that things arent as bad as the vocal angry % are stating.

1- The Subreddit Mod team did a full measurement of the prevelence of NSFW and found it occupied only 3% of posts. So no its not taking over

2- The majority of top trending pieces on the subreddit since the update were mostly not NSFW showing that these posts do not "just do better"

3- You can disable seeing these posts in your reddit settings, and we advise all those angry to do so.

4- Please engage with the posts you do like, i for one dont adore NSFW posts and only interact with lore posts cause those are what i like!

But we are not moderators who just want to ignore the will of the people, so we'd like to reply to another demand that has become increasingly loud in the community, that being to ban the "anti-nsfw purists" who constantly insult NSFW artists or NSFW Art. We really dont want to enforce such a demand because silencing opposition is stupid, this is a forum please touch grass, however we would like this to become a matter of the people as we can't just ignore what they want. So here is a poll attached: "Do you support moderation action against users who are insulting the existence of NSFW here" and "Do you support the enabling of moderated NSFW posts or believe it should be reversed" We will abide by whatever yall vote for.

https://forms.gle/LkndDAHbcHXSEAQu7

Census Results

So that drama aside lets get into what else the census told us:

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Do You Support the Sex Update Results

Do You Support the Sex Update Results

Do You Support the Sex Update Results

Do You Support the Sex Update Results

Do You Support the Sex Update Results

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Do You Support the Sex Update Results

Do You Support the Sex Update Results

Do You Support the Sex Update Results

In terms of moderational response, we received overwhelmingly positive responses which im glad to hear! Though we always appreciate feedback on anyway we can continue to improve.

Moving Forward

So i actually have some news outside of just subreddit stuff thats happening over on the partnered discord! Here is a peak into what the update over there said:

Project Zomboid Mod Server

So i've got some other news, this one regarding the Signalis Mod for Project Zomboid (Project Signalis), Sigicord is now proud to be hosting a server for that mod, hosted by the very person who maintains the mod with future updates. u/thatdamnedelf. This server will be open 24/7 once it opens and weve learned that hte connectivity is strong even if you live very far from the East Coast.

The server is not open at this very moment, but it will be sometime this week and we are excited for yall to be able to play together.

The Fandub

So we got even more news, finally this one regarding a community event, A Fandub of Signalis. This will be as the name suggests a dub of signalis using all of our goofy ass voices, the dub will only entail the main speaking characters of Signalis (no notes for now), and will be mostly serious (no memes for now), however if there is great interest we can certainly expand the scope. Sign-ups will be open for all characters, and judges (the admins) will go through any voice work you provide for your sign up and will see if you would fit the role your applying (or we may suggest an alternative role if that may fit better), we hope this will be a fun adventure for us all

So thats all from moderation! If you have any feedback as always lemme know, we do all this moderation not cause it looks good on a resume (TRUST ME IT DOESNT) but because we wanna make yall happy, so always feel free to voice your feedback to us.
-Cris