As you may have noticed, the subreddit has gotten two new moderators: myself and /u/ArchitectureGeek . You may also notice some amount of cleanup in the sub. We're going to be more active in keeping this sub to be as enjoyable as possible.

What we want to do now is form a ruleset that our users agree with. First a question:

To what extent do you want this subreddit to strictly be about McMansions?

It's clear no other /r/BadArchitecture sub that really took off (as opposed to other /r/badX subs like /r/badeconomics or /r/badhistory). And discussion of more generally bad houses or bad architecture seems to be enjoyable for our users.

The extent to which we fill this niche depends on what the users here feel is best:

• McMansion Orthodox: This sub is only about McMansions. Houses under 2500sqft can fuck off. Non-house posts aren't even considered.

• Ugly House Liberal: This sub accepts McMansions and more generally ugly houses. We'd differentiate between the two with tagged posts: Certified McMansion^TM and Ugly House.

• Ugly House Liberal : The above but we also accepts tangential posts (eg. bad house interiors like on the McMansionHell blog, but maybe also neighbourhood design or nonsense landscaping type posts).

• BadArchitecture Conqueror: Why stop at houses, let's be the place to discuss bad architecture in general. We'd still tag things appropriately.

• Design Anarchist: We accept anything. Post bad teapot design if you feel like it. Large garages under 5 nested gables are good. Maybe even unban /u/artvandaly-architect

Let us (the new mods) know which position you land on and if you have other proposals. We'll implement them throughout the week.

Here are other ideas:

• Open to discussion thread for relevant discussions (depending on what the extent of the sub is)

• A free-for-all thursday where you can (gasp) post GOOD LOOKING HOUSES (or buildings or anything else you find interesting).

Lastly, users who have a good history can apply to become new mods as well. I'm a busy guy, and I'm sure /u/ArchitectureGeek doesn't want to do everything himself when I'm inevitably missing for a few days at a time.

Cheers, The new mods