So, as some of you may (or may not) have noticed, you have two brand new moderators! Hi, very-pleased-to-meet-you and all that. But I digress; the reason I'm making this thread is not to introduce ourselves. It seems that we've inherited a bit of a problem, and it's a problem that could use some open discussion before we decide on one solution or another.

To put it bluntly, and simply; what direction do we want this sub-reddit to go in? What direction do you, our userbase, want this sub-reddit to go in? Right now our content is a mix of questions, discussions, and posts that are slightly... lighter in nature, such as this one. And that last category seems to be the most problematic, so let's focus the discussion on them for the moment.

I'm in favour of banning links to text-only images - if you want to quote something, you can do it in a self post. That'll be slightly more likely to foster discussion, will reduce (the admittedly minimal) karma whoring, and hopefully encourage submitters to actually explain a bit about why they're posting a quote.

I also think that the meme-like submissions which frequently garner huge number of upvotes should be disallowed; they're frequently only barely related to philosophy, and don't generally produce any constructive responses. In my opinion, the only value lost in banning them would be a few karma points.

However, I understand this is a divisive issue amongst the users here. It's pretty clear from previous threads that there's a lot of unhappiness, both about the current state of r/philosophy and pretty much any possible future direction - so I want to see what you have to say about this, and about any other possible actions the moderators could make to change or improve this sub-reddit. Maybe you think we should leave it well enough alone, and just stick to approving things caught in the spam filter. If so, say so.

Hopefully BreSput and/or illuminatedwax will chime in with their opinions at some point in this thread's lifespan; and equally, hopefully we'll try to take into account the prominent views in this thread when we make the final decision on which path to go.