With the help of the new Modern Moderators, were are pleased to announce a big change here at the Modern sub. That is the closing of the main stay thread, The Banned List Discussion thread. We intend to replace it with the new and improved State of Modern thread.
The Banlist thread became a very toxic place over time, and a place where most discussion was off limits. It was clear that the modern community wanted to talk about modern as a whole; reprints, new card machanics, aggro effecting control, ect. We started the first "State of the Meta" thread as an experiment only to last 2 weeks, seeing if the discussion would grow out of hand and aggressive quickly, but it seems the freedom of topics actually allowed it to include people who normally wouldn't post in the banlist thread and remained civil.
The Banlist Thread will now be an annual thread that is created on the Banlist Announcement day, and last from a week to 3 depending on the import of the news. The State of Modern Thread will now be a pinned continuous thread.
To be clear, the State of Modern thread will be modded regularly to ensure that it does not get spammed or flamed as the Banned List Thread so be sure to read the OP rules. Its much more open in what can be talked about, but much more rigid in the anti hate rules.
Thank you all. We will leave this announcement open if you have any thoughts on this.
The Banlist thread became a very toxic place over time, and a place where most discussion was off limits. It was clear that the modern community wanted to talk about modern as a whole; reprints, new card machanics, aggro effecting control, ect. We started the first "State of the Meta" thread as an experiment only to last 2 weeks, seeing if the discussion would grow out of hand and aggressive quickly, but it seems the freedom of topics actually allowed it to include people who normally wouldn't post in the banlist thread and remained civil.
The Banlist Thread will now be an annual thread that is created on the Banlist Announcement day, and last from a week to 3 depending on the import of the news. The State of Modern Thread will now be a pinned continuous thread.
To be clear, the State of Modern thread will be modded regularly to ensure that it does not get spammed or flamed as the Banned List Thread so be sure to read the OP rules. Its much more open in what can be talked about, but much more rigid in the anti hate rules.
Thank you all. We will leave this announcement open if you have any thoughts on this.