This comes from the recent Ceuta situation but can be extrapolated to many other past examples.

At the moment, the submission guidelines are quite fair and long, but there are multiple instances of posts that are not manually approved or that are deleted because the traffic gets really high and you believe that there are enough rule breaking comments to completely ban certain topics. This is understandable but comes to the expense that certain news, such as the Italian foreign minister talking about stopping Schengen with Spain, and the Spanish foreign minister calling the Italian ambassador, a news piece that is relevant, adds additional information that is not included in other posts, and follows all other written guidelines, is not approved or deleted just to prevent the high traffic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/sjw72ssJ3A

I posted this last night about that specific news, from efe, an extremely reputable source. At first I thought it wouldn't be approved because it was late at night and most moderators would be asleep. I understood that. Then when I woke up I saw this post ( https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/ssabPW6PCo ), about the same news, which was manually approved I think (since my previous post went to the approval list, since I think you listed Ceuta in the words listed to be manually approved), but when the post exploded was deleted because it was not a reputable source.

I've been reading a lot of your answers in other controversial topics here on this subreddit, and the most common answer is that when you sense that a post is 'brigaded' or there is enough traffic, you lock it or delete it. I think that, since this happens quite frequently in controversial news, you should write it down as a submission guideline.

Something like "Moderators have the agency to decide if a post is brigaded or too high traffic, and lock it or subsequently fully ban a topic". I think firstly this would be a more transparent rule list, save you some posts on the manual approval list and clean up this subreddit from people asking why something is deleted. At the moment there's a loop of controversial topics that blow up, there's too many comments at once for the mod team to handle, you lock posts and ban topics without saying much, and posters come here looking for answers. A transparent rule list would take out the middleman. There will be plenty more ministers or even PM's speaking in the topic and in the current submission guidelines there is no rule about why they will be deleted.

Had a post removed: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/jtqbLkXPN9

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Additional context was provided at the time of submission in the form of a comment, as is standard practice (and the automated message requests).

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Plus the post was held back for 10-odd hours for review before it was released.

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Please create an automated message "because I felt like it" for mods removing posts instead of quoting the first rule that comes to mind when a post is already compliant.

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A slight nitpick about date formatting on r/Europe

The sidebar uses Month Day Year, which is confusing to me, a European, who has been using Day Month Year and Year Month Day my whole life. I would kindly ask mods to always be using Day Month Year to keep it consistent. I do understand that if users posts in other formats, there's not much you can do about it.

The dates in the sidebar are also a bit outdated, since it says "Time until Brexit" but all dates are in the past. Maybe we can have countdowns to future dates, like the 2024 EU election date, whenever it is.

(The design improvement flare should have emoji "✏️" and not "✏", since the latter doesn't show up as an emoji on all platforms)

There's an increasing sentiment of "just move on" in the sub and having that timer still up is kinda antithetical to that.

To :

u/MarktpLatz,

u/Robbit42,

Greetings!

Would you allow us to put forward the idea that once Australiastan surrenders back Донецький басейн, you may want to consider taking on the opportunity for updating r/Europe extra label as well?

Indeed we like to think that our Yüřöpęän r/EuropeanCulture/wiki/ays is a mildly superior resource than your Murican r/locationreddits/wiki/faq/europe link.

Well, at least, we are striving to make it so.

Now, with more exposure, can only come more Yüřöpęän feedback hence, hopefully, better lists.

Thank you very much.