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Can you tell me a little more about why usernames in feed are helpful for your moderation workflow? We've found that most mods tend to click into PDP to learn more (where you can still see usernames). Thanks!
Comment by pk2317 at 19/04/2023 at 22:15 UTC
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Here’s a very standard use case for my subreddit(s), that takes a lot of my time/effort/focus:
I moderate several fan communities for different TV shows. One of the most prevalent content that we have is fan art for these shows.
One of our strongest guidelines is that artists *must* be given appropriate credit for their work. The artist must be named, and a direct source link must be provided to where the artist/artwork can be found. Typically this will be done by the person who posted the artwork adding a comment with the source.
Frequently we have artists who post their own work. This is great, we strongly support this, we have a distinct post flair that we encourage them to use to indicate it is their own work, and we don’t require them to credit themselves in the title (because it’s their work). We’ve found that the term/concept of “OC” doesn’t help at all, because to fan artists that means “Original Character” (someone you created within this fictional world).
So, when a piece of fan art shows up on my feed, all I have is the image and the title. I can’t see the post flair, and I can’t see who posted it. If there’s no named credit in the title, I have no way of knowing if it was the artist themselves who posted it, or if someone found it and just added it in violation of our requirements. If I can see the username matches the artist (by using the same name as the signature on the image, or a close variation of it, or because I recognize the artist/username), then I don’t *have* to click into the post, because I already know this rule is being followed.
Even if they do properly mention the artist in the title, that doesn’t mean they’ve provided the source link (as required). I have a handful of users who frequently post Fanart that I know the artists involved have given them express permission to repost on Reddit. They are familiar with the guidelines and I can trust them to follow them. Some are even fellow moderators. If I can see the post is made by one of those users, I don’t *have* to click into the post, because I know the rules are being followed.
Without the username showing (or the post flair), I have to click into Every. Single. Piece of fan art that’s posted, to see who posted it, and if the source link is provided, and if the correct post flair is applied (which obviously we can fix ourselves if we need to, and for a brand-new user on the sub who is posting their own artwork for the first time, I’m happy to do so, but I have to see it to know). This is a *considerable* burden on my time and effort, and due to the nuances and complexities it isn’t something that can easily be handled by AutoMod.
Now, *IF* I’m (only) browsing by my Mod Feed, I can still see the usernames (but, again, not the post flairs). So I can come across a piece of artwork, and 90% of the time since I can see the username, I know it’s in line with the rules. But I don’t *want* to be restricted to *only* browsing the specific subreddits I moderate.
My preferred method of browsing Reddit (*prior* to this) was via a Custom Feed I had created, consisting of a mix of the communities I moderate, and other, similar fan subreddits for other, similar shows that I enjoy. As I go through this feed, I see all the posts in my communities (and can moderate them as needed), while *also* getting to enjoy posts from the other communities (and, sometimes, to give them a hand by Reporting posts that I notice violating their similar guidelines).
Now I can’t effectively do that anymore. I have to solely browse my Mod Feed, and once I get through that, *if* I still have time/energy/inclination, then I might go through a *separate* Custom Feed that I had to set up consisting of the same set of communities *minus* the ones I moderate (otherwise I’ll just be seeing all those posts multiple times). This is detrimental to my being able to just enjoy Reddit, and has made me basically limit my time on here to *just* be focused on moderation and not just being able to enjoy myself and my time here.
Comment by Oscar_Geare at 03/05/2023 at 09:43 UTC
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Why let us have flags next to users in modnotes (ie, spam, abuse warning, etc) if we can’t see it easily? We use those tags to warn other moderators about potential bad actors. If we can’t see it without clicking on *every single post* what’s the point of this cool new feature? We use this extensively to be like “hey this user is known to only post links from this website and they’ve been warned, ban them for advertising next offence”. If we can’t see the username and the ModNotes flag next to the username, what’s the point??
It saves us a click (or tap). Someone is sharing a link to SnoosTechBlog. Cool. That persons account is SnoosTechBlog - probably not cool. I see that and it prompts me that I need to actually dive into that post and check out the users prior content and see if they are breaking the rules about self-promotion/advertising.