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I follow a number of trading/investing subreddits and one thing I noticed is that regular users of these smaller subs are expressing concern that there is an overflow of new users from r/wallstreetbets that will turn their helpful subs into the next wsb. Namely r/options and r/investing.
Is there anything mod teams from smaller helpful subreddits can do to prevent the community from turning into wsb?
Comment by KeyserSosa at 06/02/2021 at 00:53 UTC
93 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Growth is awesome, but it can also be scary to be sure! One thing we’d recommend is just make sure you keep up on adding more mods; many hands make lesser work, and having a bunch of folks around to help out when things get busy is a good way to make sure you stay on top of things, but also don’t burn out.
Also, if you haven’t already, make sure you have Automod set up and able to help do kind of a ‘First pass’ on your content. You can find help and documentation in r/Automoderator for that! You can also get help from your fellow mods in r/modhelp, help from mods and admins in r/modsupport, and you can find some great resources in our Mod Help Center[1], and especially our section on crisis management[2]. That article alone has some good tips for you of things you should be on top of before a crisis hits!
1: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us
2: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041256671-Crisis-Management
Comment by tahlyn at 05/02/2021 at 22:21 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Honestly, based on the information we got in this post, it seems there were a lot of brand new users.
The best thing these small subs could do is use automod to remove any post from any account under a certain karma threshold or under a certain age and to auto remove any post with one of the meme stocks in it. Be super strict about it for a month until the new users get bored and that'll probably help you more than anything the admins can do for you.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/02/2021 at 16:57 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Get with the r/showerthoughts because the auto mod there blocks so many