I wanted to know how the community is feeling about the subreddit and if there are any changes you all want to see.

General Updates:

• 2 new moderators have been added since the last update.
• I have been slacking and haven't finished the Q&A bot, but still manually directing people to the Q&A thread.
• The Wiki Rules have been updated to match the sidebar rules.

My Questions For You.

• What is going well in /r/Boise?
• What could be improved in /r/Boise?
• Do you have a question you would like clarification on about /r/Boise?

Trolls/Toxic Community Members And /r/Boise

There has been an increase of trolls, especially when topics like the Boise Pride Festival come up, and I wanted to ask the community about this. Previously it was just myself as the only active moderator so I hesitated at times on taking action against users who were only skirting the rules. However, I think allowing toxic members in a community only harms the community. I have an idea and I wanted to see if this was something you would like now that we have additional moderators.

Proposed Method To Handle Trolls

• Trolls know to skirt the line to avoid a ban as long as possible
  • To counter this we could add a rule that if you are below -30 karma, 3 active moderators can choose to take additional action against a user including up to a ban.

The -30 karma limit is something we can change if you would like a different limit for what we consider a troll or a toxic member of the community. But I wanted to propose this method to handle bad eggs in the community. Please let me know how you guys feel and what you would like to see done.

My personal thanks to every member of this community for your feedback.