Comment by pk2317 on 19/04/2023 at 22:15 UTC

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View submission: Mobile moderation on Reddit

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.

Sidebar 1: for this, and other reasons, it would be *really helpful* to be able to pin/sticky *anyone*’s comment to the top of the comment section, rather than only our own mod comments. Or at *least* let us pin a comment *by* the OP, if not allow them to pin comments on their own posts.

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.

Sidebar 2: it would be *really helpful* to see the post flair from the feed as well, on *any* feed, to immediately know if someone is claiming this is their Original Fanart or not. Also if someone is claiming a “news” article is real or a joke, based on the post flair

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.

Sidebar 3: if nothing else, it would be good to have *Custom* settings on our *Custom* Feeds where we could choose ourselves to *Customize* if we want to see usernames, flairs, etc.

Sidebar 4: Since I want to make sure I’m not missing anything while browsing through my feed (*ANY* feed, be it Custom or Mod), I’m going to nearly always want to sort by New rather than by Hot. It’s *really* annoying having to change that setting Every. Single. Time that I open the feed. Once again, this should be a *Custom* feature that I can set on my *Custom* Feed, if not a universal setting. It saves my last-used preference on a subreddit level, but not on a feed level.

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