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View submission: Improvements to subreddit rules
I was going to post a more structured message last week, but ended up forgetting to do so.
Anyway, I'm a moderator for /r/friendsafari and /r/pokemontrades. The reason we've so far opted not to implement this feature in /r/friendsafari is that our biggest rule necessitates proof photos for each violation.
For some context, /r/friendsafari is a Pokémon sub, and the games in question assign each user three Pokémon in their safari, which other users can visit if both add each other as friends. If someone lies about what's in their safari, another user can take a picture of the other safari while they're visiting it and prove it. However, without a picture, claims are just complete hearsay.
As such, we don't want *reports* for violations of this rule. We only want modmails so other users can easily provide the required photos and we can get back to them if anything is missing. The fact that it would almost certainly lead to many non-actionable reports (which we've already gotten a number of in the past, even without it being an explicit report reason) is why we haven't used the rules page on this sub.
Would it be feasible to have an option to have certain report reasons direct users to modmail instead of going through the standard report system, or maybe have rules that simply do not produce report reasons?
(Also, please mark /r/pokemontrades down as another sub that has rules too complex to fit clearly into 500 characters. We do try to format them[1] nicely to improve the odds of people reading them, but we've had to go with the "link the wiki" solution there.)
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemontrades/wiki/rules
Comment by powerlanguage at 07/03/2017 at 02:11 UTC
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Would it be feasible to have an option to have certain report reasons direct users to modmail instead of going through the standard report system, or maybe have rules that simply do not produce report reasons?
This is something we may look adding in future.