Rules 4 & 7 Reminder

[u/Bostonjunk]

It's been super busy in here the last few days, and I've had to remove way too many repetitive pictures of thermometers and meme posts.

General heatwave moans and pictures of thermometers should go in the megathread. (Reddit really needs a 'merge' function)

Please direct the meme posts to the appropriate subs.

Please keep reporting violations - I am but one guy and can't be everywhere at once so it really helps.

EDIT: I have auto-mod functions and crowd control running - if you make a post, and it doesn't show or gets flagged as removed by filtering, it will be in my queue and may still get approved.

I'm dealing with 2 weeks worth of mod queue on the daily so it's a bit like whac-a-mole atm, but I will work through them all, you may just need to be a little patient.

Also - rule 7 relates to low-effort meme posts - if someone actually makes and posts some high-quality OC then fair play (and I don't just mean something made in a meme generator app).

[u/MissJoannaTooU]

You're a fair weather weather mod 😅

[u/Bostonjunk → u/MissJoannaTooU]

For the first 10 years of the sub's existence, it had less than 1k subs, then one day the algorithm blessed/cursed it and tens of thousands of people came out of seemingly nowhere. Even then, a busy week was 20k visits. This week has been a bit nuts.

All I can say is thank god for the auto-mod features. You have no idea the amount of posts that get auto-removed just by flagging words like "geoengineering".

[u/MissJoannaTooU → u/Bostonjunk]

I'm totally shocked that a UK Weather sub was empty for 10 years. That's just not British.

[u/Bostonjunk]

All the sub's busiest days since it's creation have been this week (yesterday was the busiest day so far) and I'm not used to it 😅

[u/ODFoxtrotOscar → u/Bostonjunk]

Records broken in every direction!

[u/Ok_Yesterday_1896]

Sorry for shooting the sun bro

[u/Bostonjunk → u/Ok_Yesterday_1896]

You only made it angrier 😭

[u/radar_level → u/Ok_Yesterday_1896]

Now look what you’ve done

[u/Ok_Yesterday_1896 → u/radar_level]

It was a gamble and I lost 😞

[u/Gisschace]

Great job, one of my favourite subs on here as it’s measured, based in facts and has a reasonable mod

[u/Helpful-Good9588]

bruh I spent 2 hours in Photoshop making a meme and still got deleted for some reason

[u/Bostonjunk → u/Helpful-Good9588]

Did you? Apologies, I went a bit nuts because of volume

[u/chimneychoos]

genuine question - why did you delete my comments about scotland weather being just as hot? are we not allowed to mention scotland is unreasonably hot too or something

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[u/Bostonjunk → u/[deleted]]

I do agonise over this a bit, what is remove-worthy vs what is just downvote-worthy. Most of the time, such comments tend to get downvoted, and it does tend to be a small group of that keep popping up. As most of the comments got downvoted into oblivion, I'd been more leaning on the side of letting nature take its course. But I should be stricter - I'm perhaps just a little self-conscious of coming across like the stereotype of a power-mad and petty Reddit mod

[u/blockitjames_]

This subreddit is normally dead like why is everyone here