🎲 ❓ Miscellaneous / Random for Uncategorized Posts 🔀 💡

Here's an idea: Maybe, just maybe you should start asking yourself "why aren't people posting in the right categories?" and "is there something we've missed or aren't doing well enough that spur people to unintentionally, or even intentionally, post in the wrong groups?"

You talk about how misgrouping posts are affecting other users, yet you have been implementing changes that a lot of people have disliked. Your changes aren't small and are "affecting other users" too. I can assure you that some of those posts being placed in the wrong groups are done so as a silent protest to a terrible system that has been forced upon them, and that they feel that - short of leaving the site - it is one of the very few recourses they have to get your attention because they feel you aren't listening to a significant slice of your userbase.

Basically, if they try to give constructive criticism they either get ignored, you get aggressively defensive about your change, or labeling those user as "just being negative". Has it occurred to you that maybe that is why some of them are rebelling? As weird as it may sound to you, maybe some of them do it because they care about the site and find the changes you've made to ultimately be destructive to a site they really want to stay at, and that is the only way they feel they can get your eyes open anymore?

Of course, it's a privately owned site, you can do whatever you want. If you want harsh rules and terrible systems, that's your call. Regardless of your path from here, I hope at least you'll wake up and start understanding your users and why some act like they do.