Texas

META DISCUSSION:

The last vestiges of reddit for me include me moderating my local subreddit. I like having a news feed and I post articles that pertain to the city over there.

I've set up a news feed for "Texas", which has a LOT more interesting things since it's a rather wide topic.

I don't know how many I'll post per day - I generally post everything relevant over on reddit and it's like 1-3 per day usually.

I found five things I thought were really interesting and am posting them all today. I don't know what subsequent days will bring, but I'm thinking a limit of around five (and fewer if fewer than five are really interesting), but I'm open to feedback.

…which is a general rule. I'm very open to feedback on how the community is run. I like "ruling" by consent. I think of myself as a facilitator, not a dictator - I try to remove spam, make sure folks are civil, make sure nazis and bigots are removed, but otherwise the community should be free to post and discuss things as it likes.

(One reason I haven't touched the sidebar is that the rules are basically the above and what I consider to be the main basic set of rules for any community. "Don't be an asshat", if you want it in fewer words. heh)

Howdy. Good luck.

Also, a little bit of personal introduction:

• While I was born in Mississippi, my first memory in life was packing up the big U-Haul truck as we moved to Texas before I turned three years old
• Lived my childhood and early adult life around DFW - Lewisville, Burleson, Oak Cliff, North Dallas
• Lived 15 years in Panama City, FL
• Now almost a decade in Hampton Roads, VA
• Texas is where I consider myself to be most from. Family there, friends there.
• DFW rulez, Houston D R O O L Z
• Okay, just kidding about that last one. All of Texas is great (but of course everywhere has its share of problems)

As a bit of moderator history:

• I've hosted and administered most of the resources for Simutrans which includes being the administrator of The International Simutrans Forum for almost 25 years
• I was a default mod on reddit for a few years (pics, videos), as well as moderating a few mid-sized communities for even longer. I'm also the "father" of r/nottheonion - taking a dead subreddit and building it up to 20k people, bringing on a mod team, and when it great to 200k, stepping away as the rest of the mod team and I had slightly different visions and while i could have removed all of them, I felt it better to let them handle things - and in fairness, it became a default subreddit after that, so I made the right call.

c/Texas is not a busy community, but I will be posting news and such as I run across it. So I hope to see y'all around here more! :)