287 upvotes, 10 direct replies (showing 10)
View submission: Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)
On /r/anime at the moment we require a lot of the karma whored content to be posted as self posts so that they're not farmed. This allows users to still post those forms of content if they think they're worthy of posting, but stops the subreddit from being flooded by them for karma - and makes it so that we don't need to outright ban those forms of content to keep that from happening.
This change would ruin that entire line of moderation.
At the very least, maybe making it opt-in/opt-out for subs would work. *That way, self post only subs would still be able to generate karma for their users, while subs that use self posts not giving karma for moderation purposes would still be able to function without having to ban all those types of content outright.
Comment by DerpyMcFrakles at 19/07/2016 at 19:32 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Agreed. That was one of the best decisions you mods made when you moved fan art and such to self posts only. So much for that. And what about discussion posts that aren't done by the bot? Rewatch Discussions? Best whatever contest? Watch this threads? This whole thing seems like a huge mess for you all. I foresee a huge drop in content quality.
Comment by encoreAC at 19/07/2016 at 18:45 UTC
25 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Indeed, I really don't like this change speaking for /r/anime.
Comment by Porkinson at 19/07/2016 at 19:40 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
i always have appreciated the text post from /r/anime, i think that they are trying to give an incentive for people to write more text posts but in reality the people that wanted to share something will do it anyways and this will only spawn a lot of shitposters and karmawhores, but i might be wrong ¯\*(ツ)*/¯
Comment by accountnumberseven at 19/07/2016 at 19:13 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The sub's an interesting balance of typically circlejerky content (fanart, anime news announcements, episode discussions, rewatches, bracket contests, best/worst discussions) all kept in line rather precariously. I'm worried that this shift is going to cause a shift in content submission, especially once the karma whores start trying to exploit the sub's upvoting habits.
/u/holo_of_yoitsu takes away the issue of people spamming discussion threads as soon as something airs or streams (she had 30 comment karma when I started typing this!) but only so much can be outsourced to wisewolves.
Comment by Takamiya at 19/07/2016 at 19:11 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Discussion bot is gonna explode!
Comment by mithikx at 19/07/2016 at 18:52 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I forsee this happening: https://gfycat.com/SafeBelatedArchaeocete
Comment by SerCiddy at 20/07/2016 at 18:04 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I know it may be difficult for such a popular sub like you, but I feel as though the only way the admins will listen to us regarding this matter is to just disable self posts.
It just seems like to me the admins are trying to increase pageviews and ad revenue. With the addition of karma for self posts there's more incentive for people to post which will increase traffic, clicks, and shares which just increases reddit's internet presence in general. I don't want my, or any other community to be ruined by the increase in karma whoring. Even if a lot of the posts don't make it to the top, they're still there, taking up space.
Turning off self posts is the only action I can come up with that will get the admins to listen to the mods who care more about the community that we've worked so hard to manicure and grow. If we threaten their traffic, it may have some effect.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 21:34 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Good thing you guys have a bot that does the anime discussion self-posts or it would be really bad.
Comment by Zadujj at 19/07/2016 at 19:46 UTC
-1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This change would ruin that entire line of moderation.
In the case of /r/anime, this might be for the better, since the current moderation is complete garbage.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 19:48 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
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