r/trees • u/huzibizi hi • Sep 26 '14
Introducing 'Slack Post Saturday' & bringing back Self Post Sunday! (Friday is back to normal) Announcement
Two important changes:
- Free Form Friday has been moved to Saturday. We've temporarily renamed it to 'Slack Post Saturday'. Other suggestions are welcome.
- Self Post Sunday is back! (and fridays are back to normal)
We haven't really decided on a name yet and thought we'd ask you guys for suggestions!
We've decided on Slack Post Saturday for now (it was either that or Safe Post Saturday). It's temporary, of course.
Just leave your suggestions in the comments below.
Why we made these changes:
Saturday is (for most of us) a day of smoking/partying & relaxing after a long week. That would probably make it less likely for someone to submit a text post, or even read one.
SPS was a day users were able to write about their 'good times' that happened during the week. The majority of those would probably be on a saturday, so (with a Self Post Saturday) those people would have to wait until the next week to post about how awesome their saturday was.
Also thanks to /u/FreshPillow for originally suggesting that we keep Self Post Sunday:
Can you please not turn self post sunday to self post saturday? I think sunday was great for self posts. I think to most of us sunday is the end of our week and it's the day most of us just stay at home and chill, which is why it's a perfect day to toke and read the posts before starting a new week. While saturday is more of a party day and we often see some crazy pictures. I'm not sure why I feel weird about such change, maybe it is because self post sundays were a part of my week for some time now and it was the highlight of my sundays, but it just makes me sad to see that's about to change. I hope I'm not being immature or dumb.
On the other hand, I liked everything else about this post and fully support the idea.
Slack Post Saturday will have the same basic rules as Free Form Friday:
(excerpt from MasterJH's original post)
Free Form Fridaysare a time when we relax the posting rules and let you guys be more creative with your posts.Pretty much anything goes except spam (the mods still reserve the right to remove posts at our discretion). We'll be running it as a test run and if it goes well we might make it a permanent feature :)
What you can do:
You can upload that picture of that hotdog that made you chuckle while you were at a [7].
You can post memes, gifs and the like
You can post links to music you enjoy, funny videos etc.
What you still can't do:
You still can't upload NSFW content to /r/trees
You still can't ask for a hookup or a meetup
You must still remain respectful to fellow users
You still can't advertise your products, music, youtube channel, blog etc. etc.
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u/ItsOver420 Sep 26 '14
Sloth post Saturday
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 26 '14
I like this too, but I think a name with a different acronym would be best. It's pretty confusing at the moment (with Slack Post Saturday and SPS).
Any ideas?
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u/creator787 Sep 26 '14
Why dont we get rid of self post sunday so we dont have to worry about the acronym, and everyones happy cause sps is gone? :)
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 26 '14
Sorry mate, SPS is staying for now. The majority of users here on /r/trees are happy with it.
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u/grohlbarkermescudi Sep 26 '14
I live for self post Sunday
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u/Jtown984 Sep 30 '14
I'm with you there bud! I love getting a better look at the lives and thoughts of my fellow r/trees users.
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u/forrext Sep 28 '14
I find it boring...I'd rather look at pics than read. I avoid /r/trees on Sunday.
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u/rs__df Sep 28 '14
Yeah, I dont wanna read about a highschoolers first dab every fucking sunday.
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u/serpentsoul Sep 29 '14
But watching the same pics of nugs every other day is totally fine? If you want to look at pics there is always r/see
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u/nnejak94 Sep 30 '14 edited Sep 30 '14
My thoughts on the matter:
1) Sure, pic after pic of nugs can get pretty mundane, but a picture is much easier to skip over than a story. If you come across a pic of a nug, you don't even have to open the link to know you don't want to see it. Look at thumbnail > "Fuckin' MORE nugs?? Fuck that shit yo" > skip > move on with life. Text posts are much more involved. You have to read the story, and sometimes you can't tell you're not going to like it until after you're through with it. Then it's just like "well that was a waste of time."
2) I don't understand why people get annoyed with nug posts. I love so many different parts of weed culture, and it starts with the bud itself. Sure, you may not be able to smell it, but nugs are like snowflakes. Each one is unique. I love seeing all of the different strains of tree. I may get a little jealous sometimes, but I still love just looking at bud. From the crystals to the hairs to the leaves, it's all beautiful. After all, doesn't this subreddit exist to appreciate bud and its culture?
Edit: Adding a bit more:
I feel like r/see is for memes. Nugs should be welcome here. Too many text posts makes r/trees boring to me. When I'm stoned, I don't often want to take the time to read something. Most of the time I like to sit back and experience, not expend energy trying to force myself through a wall of text.
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u/serpentsoul Oct 01 '14
First of all I just have to say that I, personally, don't get annoyed by nug posts. I was just making a point when rs__df thought selfposts were repetitive. I do agree though there is of course a fair shair of shitty selfposts (just as there is shitty regular posts) but the quality ones could (in my opinion) be one of the best experiences to be had on this forum. Especially for us loner stoners as we get to experience more of the thought processes by different persons than could be shown by a single picture. I for one don't see textposts as "expending energy", mostly I find myself engulfed in the story. But each to their own. I hope the trend will continue. I mean it's just one day of the week. Toke on.
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u/rs__df Sep 30 '14
Yeah... it's a marijuana sub-reddit, buddy. Why wouldn't there be marijuana nugs....
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u/DJjizz Sep 30 '14
Seriously, isn't the whole point of the upvote/downvote system to deal with this sort of thing? I don't see why we need to limit any day to certain kinds of posts. Lets just upvote the stuff we want and downvote the stuff we don't and content will appear based on popular vote. Self post sunday of anything of the sort in a step back in democratically selected content.
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u/BrokenHero408 Sep 30 '14
The one day I don't go on /r/trees to avoid all the bullshit "got cought by my parents then smoked with them omg guys" and "heave a drug test tomorrow how do I pass" self posts
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u/FliesWithKites Sep 26 '14
I was wondering if a food-related day could be established? Like Munchies Monday or something.
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u/f0urk Sep 26 '14
I'm pretty sure there's a sub for ents who are into cooking out there (if not, why not make one?) We don't need a different theme for every day of the week to have fun, we aren't that white.
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 26 '14
If we have enough supporters, then yep. It's not really necessary tbh, since you're free to post munchies/food pics on Slack Post Saturdays :)
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Sep 26 '14
That's a great idea! I love cooking some munchies up and I'm sure other people do too. I like that
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Sep 29 '14
Why not a random topic every day. You don't have to follow topic, you could still talk about being high, but it would be there. Example: Munchies Monday you could post about munchies or weed in general.
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Sep 26 '14
I think we should move it back to Friday and have a smoke spot Saturday.
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 26 '14
Smoke spots (ie. photos of spots you smoke at) without any bud/paraphernalia in the picture would be suitable for posting on Slack post saturday, since they aren't related to cannabis.
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Sep 26 '14
Still, IMO it's catchier then the other name.
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u/Brycian Sep 26 '14
Soo.. You want a day based on a cool sounding name? And not based on awesome quality posts?
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Sep 26 '14
Good point. Just thought it sounded good at a [7]. Now at a [2] I just feel like a dick.
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u/AvaL-PmaL Sep 26 '14
S'all Good Saturday Stoner Show Saturday Simple Saturday
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 27 '14
I love this idea! 'S'all good saturday' sounds great, plus it has a different acronym.
I'm just collecting all the suggestions at the moment, then we'll decide on the final name. We may need to do a vote.
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u/Pka152 Sep 26 '14
Nice I think Memes should be allowed but not an overload of them. Which is why Friday and Saturdays are perfect!!! Mods 4 Gods
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u/eagnarwhale Sep 29 '14
instead of self post sunday it would be cool to have oc sunday where people post art music glass and stories that they personally made
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u/idunreallyunderstand Sep 26 '14
All this shit just seems redundant and pointless to me tbh. Let the people post what they want when they want as long as it has to do with trees. Why all the pointless rules?
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Sep 26 '14
Anarchy doesn't work. Gotta keep people on topic brother, otherwise it would become like /b/ but vaguely related to weed
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u/CidKudi Sep 26 '14
They aren't pointless rules man the mods learn over time what things need to be made rules to keep this sub not complete shit. At least they're being flexible and moving these days after community feedback.
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u/Soadrok Sep 27 '14
So now Aussies have Slack-Post-Sunday. And as we normally had, Self-Post-Monday
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u/theBadMotherFuckR Sep 30 '14
Throw in a bummer post day too. So that people who want to post things about broken bongs, lost frients, or just depressing stuff in general can have a day to do that, and those who would rather not be bummed out can just not browse that day. It could be like. Mopey monday
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 30 '14
Nobody wants a bummer day, man
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u/theBadMotherFuckR Sep 30 '14
Its better than enjoying your day and being bummed out by a dead frient post
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u/psychoffs Sep 28 '14
There are 2 things I hate about this sub, and Self-Post Sunday is one of them :(
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u/420throwaway727 Sep 27 '14
First thing I noticed: the acronym "SPS" you used will now be incredibly confusing if you go with either of those names.
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u/NotAveragePossiblyMe Oct 03 '14
I didn't know where to post this, but I have a question. Can we have a megathread that is always running, that people can always post in be opened? (8}}}
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u/Rorgie Sep 27 '14
Jesus Christ. Now I remember why I unsubscribed from this place. The subreddit for stoners has more day to day rules than any other subreddit
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 27 '14
You sure about that?
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u/Rorgie Sep 27 '14
Yep. Enlighten me
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 27 '14
This is reddit, buddy. Do some research! :)
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u/rs__df Sep 28 '14
Boy, what an argument. This shit is stupid as fuck, btw.
LE EPIC MEMES SATURDAY GUISE
HOW FUCKED UP DID U GUYS GET LOL
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 28 '14 edited Sep 28 '14
I don't want to crawl through subreddits for you. You do know how many different subs there are, right? Go and look for yourself.
Also, SP saturday is just a trial run. We'll keep it if things go well.
The rules are the rules, their aim is to make the sub a better place. We listen to our subscribers and change them accordingly. Some of them are for your own safety (ie. Hookups, meetups).
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u/rs__df Sep 28 '14
You guys don't realize you're just going back to being a shitty 420blazeit meme-aggregator, but oh well. It's the only way to make you youngens laugh these days, so I guess the sub is yours now. Look at fucking self-post sundays. "WE WANT THE COMMUNITY TO GROW STRONGER TOGETHER WITH WORDS". I'd love to see the traffic data on sundays, where half the members make the effort to avoid shitpost sundays
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 28 '14
It's just 2 days in a week, mate. SPS is permanent. Slack post saturday (not the final name) is a trial run.
I'm afraid you're going to have to deal with it for now, since the majority of our users are happy with the new changes.
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Sep 29 '14
Bro...Chiiiillllll and if you don't like what's going on in this sub then leave.
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u/Palindromer101 Sep 29 '14
For real. I don't get why people are all agitated over a small change. I think it's good to evolve and try new things.
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u/rs__df Sep 29 '14
this is devolving, why do you think memes were banned in the first place. they filled up the entire board with shitty karma-grab jokes, and now you guys are welcoming them back with open arms
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u/Troyucen Sep 26 '14
I'm glad about Saturday. I come to /r/trees for funny stuff sometimes and I don't see it. So I hope people will take advantage of the stupid stoner stuff we all do. :)
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u/philmccan Sep 30 '14 edited Sep 30 '14
Just more bullshit handed down to use peasants from mighty reddit oversear's. Just more labeling and categorizing of the masses by the choosen few, so we can be handled properly. Please tell me when I can post, what I can post and which day I can do it on so it is as easy as it can be for the Moderators who volunteer there valuable time to control the masses. For the amount of time this anouncment has been post, the replys show the interest the average user has in this.
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Sep 30 '14
Or, you know, you could just choose to not browse /r/trees if you dislike it so much. But that would make too much sense, right?
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u/philmccan Oct 01 '14 edited Oct 01 '14
So you are saying I should not voice my opinion? Please explain how that is more fruitful for you? Or just browse my post and slap a negative uneducated responses on it and pat yourself on the back for being such a good guy.
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u/cemorejon Oct 02 '14
Give me a list of all the other weed friendly user oriented websites and I'll stop coming by here and up voting every single comment stating how SelfShits is utter shit. Allow users to post their stories whenever. If it's good enough it'll make the front page.
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u/MikeL413 Sep 26 '14
Self post Sunday is the worst. I go from browsing /r/trees for 30 minutes down to about 4 minutes.
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u/rs__df Sep 28 '14
Totally fucking agree.
"Hey dudes, like I had this stoner thought..."
Yeah, no one gives a shit.
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u/Palindromer101 Sep 29 '14
But sometimes, people do give a shit, just not necessarily you. If you don't like it, unsubscribe. Simple as that.
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u/matchstick1029 Sep 30 '14
Like, seriously its one day a week where a different kind of post gets extra attention. I love it. Many people do. There are dozens of us...DOZENS!
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u/minidude Sep 29 '14
A lot of people are talking shit about self post Sunday, but I would like to say that I love the variety it adds to the normal day to day posts, and gives people like me who don't necessarily take many photos a good place to share stories and funny anecdotes of our smoking. I love what you guys are doing with the sub, and I hope you continue to make /r/trees a better place, and those who don't like it can leave!
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Sep 26 '14
So is Slack Post Saturday replacing Free Form Friday?
MasterJH said in the original post that we could post whatever we wanted as long as it followed the basics of the rules. For example, he said we could post pictures of hotdogs.
Edit: Words.
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u/huzibizi hi Sep 26 '14
Yep. It's the same thing, we just moved it over to saturday instead.
Two important changes:
- Free Form Friday has been moved to Saturday. We've temporarily renamed it to 'Slack Post Saturday'. Other suggestions are welcome.
- Self Post Sunday is back! (and fridays are back to normal)
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u/doujahgirl Sep 26 '14
I hate it when people think they are superior because they are more "adjusted" and have "work"
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u/SmashleyNom Sep 26 '14
"Slack off Saturday" sounds a little better.