The main Kibbe sub as well as DC (and other type specific ones I’m sure) have grown a lot in the last few months. There’s nothing wrong with gaining new members, I think that part is great overall. However, with the influx of so many to this community or r/Kibbe in general, the quality of posts has really deteriorated to the point where I’m considering if it’s worth being subbed.

My main issues (and I’d love to hear feedback from other members) is:

1. low effort posts: most posts are “type me” style with low quality pictures that don’t realistically allow viewers to get an accurate representation of the person making the request. I don’t think “type me” posts have to be perfect, but 1-2 full body

2. Misunderstanding of Kibbe concepts. Many of the newer posters seem to be almost wholly unfamiliar with the Kibbe system. On the one hand, it’s just a styling system, it’s really not that deep - but at the same time, coming here and introducing information that are not relevant to the system whatsoever is kind of annoying. Reading the book or at least the excerpts provided in the main sub to familiarize yourself with the system whatsoever would solve the majority of the issues here.

3. Similar to the second point, asking questions or making comments that take information from other styling systems isn’t relevant at all. One of the many general fashion or style advice subs would be more appropriate for that. If OP posts a pic of their face asking about their “ingenue essence” or a responder comments about how they see “classic with ethereal gamine” undertones on a post - it has nothing to do with this sub.

4. Vibe/Essence tag: this one annoys me so much because in the Kibbe system, your “essence” is your type. There are descriptions of what each type means which you could interpret as a “vibe”, but really it’s just an explanation of why the types are called what they are, your vibe is whatever your present.

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Recommendations to improve sub content quality:

1. Have a minimum account age of one month or 50 karma like the main sub to encourage people rushing here from another platform without taking the time to learn or unlearn any misconceptions.

2. Implement “type me Tuesdays” or even like Tues/Thurs or something to avoid so many low effort "what am I" posts. I think a megathread would be less popular and I definitely see the use of “type me” posts but they get annoying. It’s not worth it for me to try to engage when so many posts are so low effort and repetitive.

3. Mods removing posts where OP or comment or are asking about "essence" (see point 3 in issues), a pic of their face (discouraged for typing in Kibbe), or something from outside of the Kibbe system.

4. Vibe/Essence tag: remove posts or comments misusing “essence” in the Kibbe system/ have a mod respond with an explanation of what it actually means and encourage people to read the book.

Final notes: This is not a body typing system, it’s a styling system. People often misunderstand basic concepts or think it is much more complicated than it’s meant to be imo. Familiarizing one’s self with the books basic concepts would be great but I understand not every can or will do that, and that’s ok. That said, I think a collective effort to improve the quality of the sub by implementing a bit more structure and moderating misinformation would make it much more useful to new and existing members alike.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

TLDR: Small changes can make sub discourse better. Or read the book.