I totally get your point that it´s nice to have a casual food community. What I don´t get is why this community is called foodporn when in fact 80% of the food pics posted are mediocre pics of mediocre food. I might be wrong here but as far as I understand the affix porn suggests high quality pictures of high quality, good looking food.
I can’t speak for the name of the community (not the one who made it), but we (the mods) have talked about what we should and shouldn’t allow and agreed that Reddit’s sub’s rules were too rigid. Most of the content is good enough. Anything egregiously terrible either in food quality or image quality would be better over at shittyfoodporn. But we’re not big enough to force everyone to have professional equipment to take pictures of high class food. By your own admission, if we shared your standards we would only have 20% of the content. Until it’s big enough, we don’t feel it wise to be picky and discourage users from submitting.
Other mod here, I just want to reinforce that we’re completely on the same page here. We’re of the mindset that this is a growing community that should encourage its members to post more original content.
OP took the time to make some food and felt proud enough to share it. That should be encouraged.
I totally get your point that it´s nice to have a casual food community. What I don´t get is why this community is called foodporn when in fact 80% of the food pics posted are mediocre pics of mediocre food. I might be wrong here but as far as I understand the affix porn suggests high quality pictures of high quality, good looking food.
I can’t speak for the name of the community (not the one who made it), but we (the mods) have talked about what we should and shouldn’t allow and agreed that Reddit’s sub’s rules were too rigid. Most of the content is good enough. Anything egregiously terrible either in food quality or image quality would be better over at shittyfoodporn. But we’re not big enough to force everyone to have professional equipment to take pictures of high class food. By your own admission, if we shared your standards we would only have 20% of the content. Until it’s big enough, we don’t feel it wise to be picky and discourage users from submitting.
That makes perfect sense, especially in the growing phase.
Other mod here, I just want to reinforce that we’re completely on the same page here. We’re of the mindset that this is a growing community that should encourage its members to post more original content.
OP took the time to make some food and felt proud enough to share it. That should be encouraged.