I'm not going to talk about the "strengths" and "weaknesses" since that has been talked about to death to the point of being pointless to discuss. Many opinions on that have already been shared so talking about it isn't going to do much. Nevertheless, I'm going to talk about "ideas of the future" and other stuff.

We've been talking about having automoderator automatically delete certain memetic phrases, such as all caps "DESTRUCTION," "the hardest read," "Press 1 if," etc. This would be applied at first to submission titles, but potentially also to comments.

Please don't do this. It's a bad idea. It's way too easy to automatically remove things that are incorrectly removed. This is an issue in /r/pokemon -- anything involving numbers is removed because it's assumed to be a friend code exchange. It's hard to automatically remove phrases and quite frankly not a good idea. People can always bypass it and it's just a waste of computational effort. Natural language is hard to parse and unicode characters make this type of filtering impossible.

On the topic of frequently asked question questions, I've been thinking about changing the flair system a little bit. There are a few ways we could do this. First is we could have two new flairs, "Question" and "Answered." We could then have a list of approved members who can tag flair once a question has been answered, which then Automod could remove the question after a time (maybe an hour, or maybe even immediately). Perhaps there could be another Answered flair for questions that have been answered, but we don't want Automod to remove because it could be educational for other users.

I don't think the flair system will help the "frequently asked questions" bit. However I do think the question/answer thing to be pretty solid. I'll expand on this more in a bit.

One cool idea I heard on /r/ssbm in regards to how mods can help limit the overreactions is by creating an official summary topic of the facts of whatever drama is going on, while deleting other more emotionally charged threads. Two nice things about this: First off it helps sterilize some of the unnecessary, perpetuated drama that reddit and /r/smashbros is known for. Second, it allows us as mods to help guide the sub's reaction.

I don't really like this idea. On the surface it seems good, because you want to be able to calm down the drama and everything. However the issue stems from moderation intervention to 'guide' the community. I don't think that's a good way of handling it because we shouldn't strive for changing the opinions of the people in our community regardless how silly the opinions may be.

Having the power to influence everyone like so will evidently lead to issues too. People will start accusing the moderators for things that they shouldn't be accused of, such as censorship. After all, if you have essentially full control over the "dramatic" situations then you could perpetuate whatever point of view is wanted while filtering out the opposite opinion.

Speaking of flair, we've been talking about making a Misc. flair for Smash Flash 2 and other mods or misc stuff. Also due to popular demand we're probably going to rename the Meta flair to Subreddit to help clear up confusion/misuse.

Alright, now I can go back to this flair point. This is a good first step for 'reworking' the flair system. This is my envisioned link flair system for /r/smashbros.

Essentially we use link flair as a 'tag' system. With the help of CSS this could turn out to be a very good system and we could even use the link flair tag system to have much saner filtering system.

Some examples of tags are as follows:

smash64:discussion
brawl:discussion
melee:discussion
smash4:discussion
misc:discussion
subreddit:discussion

These could be used for discussion based posts depending on the game. It'd have the appropriate image link flair but the post background would be a different colour to indicate it's a discussion question like light blue.

There could also be some question tags based on the game:

smash64:question
brawl:question
melee:question
smash4:question
misc:question
subreddit:question

and..

smash64:question:solved
brawl:question:solved
melee:question:solved
smash4:question:solved
misc:question:solved
subreddit:question:solved

would denote 'solved'.

The solved questions would have a green background and the unsolved ones would be yellow background.

I don't actually know how hard it is to implement this system but I think it'd be a good idea since it allows you to filter both based on game and based on post type without much issue. You could also have another set for easy to digest content such as gifs or art. As of writing this paragraph I don't know the limits of link flair currently but I'll look into it and keep you guys updated if you like the idea. Like I said, this is just one idea I had while thinking about flairs.

If link flair makes this impossible we could use tags in titles like we do with [Tournament Threads].

And.. for the personal questions..

Do you agree with my list of strengths and weaknesses? What would you add or change?

They seem okay.

What do you think the mission statement of the sub should be? From above, my personal goal for the sub is to make /r/smashbros the best place on the planet to talk about Smash Bros.

I believe /r/smashbros should be all things smash bros related. Art, gifs, gameplay, videos, news. Just not 'jokes' or 'memes'. Things about the game are fine though.

Does anyone have experience hosting fundraisers online, and especially on Reddit? As stated above, we've been tossing around ideas for hosting fundraisers, sponsorships, and even an offline tournament. That can't happen unless we know how to responsibly and legally handle money on behalf of the community.

In order to do these things the money needs to have full transparency.