https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/gjat2k/hide_inappropriate_awards_from_posts_or_comments/
created by redditcma on 13/05/2020 at 23:46 UTC*
420 upvotes, 54 top-level comments (showing 25)
Over the past several months, we’ve added a variety of Awards that allow redditors to express themselves in new ways. Unfortunately, not all users have the best intentions, and we have seen a few instances in which Awards have been used in inappropriate ways to poke fun at a serious/sensitive issue, posts, or comments.
To address this issue, we’ve added a tool that allows the original poster and moderator(s) to hide an inappropriate or insensitive Awards. When the poster, commenter, or moderator hovers over an Award, they have the option to hide it - and this can be used on multiple Awards. If hidden, future Awarders will not be able to give this particular Award to the post or comment. Below is a screenshot that shows the hide button when hovering over the Bravo Award:
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This feature is currently only available on new Reddit. To inform our next steps, we are building internal tooling next week to track how this feature is being used. If we see that this feature is helpful and being used, we will build on our mobile applications.
Let us know if you have any questions, I’ll be around to answer questions for a while.
Comment by [deleted] at 13/05/2020 at 23:58 UTC
154 upvotes, 7 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 13/05/2020 at 23:54 UTC*
172 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by darknep at 13/05/2020 at 23:51 UTC
114 upvotes, 6 direct replies
How about just having gold silver and platinum. The awards are getting obnoxious.
Comment by redditcma at 13/05/2020 at 23:47 UTC
1 upvotes, 3 direct replies
We’ve also seen reports of users using the anonymous giving function to send abusive PMs. We can commit to building out better reporting flows for this in the future. For now, please use this form:
https://www.reddit.com/report?reason=its-targeted-harassment[1][2]
1: https://www.reddit.com/report?reason=its-targeted-harassment
2: https://www.reddit.com/report?reason=its-targeted-harassment
And paste the link to the message you received so our Safety teams can look into the issue for you.
We’ve also seen concerns that users would be informed of the usernames of moderators who hid specific Awards -- **this is not the case**. Unfortunately, there was a design SNAFU that made it appear as if your specific usernames would be disclosed to the user whose Award you hid. This was an error on our part and was never actually the case. We’ve removed that notification to avoid further miscommunication. Sorry for the scare!
Comment by jpr64 at 14/05/2020 at 00:18 UTC
59 upvotes, 1 direct replies
/u/redditcma how about you just allow us to turn off the new awards in our subs if we want.
Comment by PotRoastPotato at 14/05/2020 at 14:45 UTC*
17 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The main question I have is this:
I cannot believe your proposed solution to this problem we've told you about for *months* is this reactive.
I'm sorry to be so blunt and rude but it seems clear you guys don't get it.
Comment by geo1088 at 13/05/2020 at 23:49 UTC*
16 upvotes, 5 direct replies
I can't actually see any hide button on the screenshot you posted. Is that a mistake or am I blind?
Edit: image was updated, it's definitely there now.
Comment by Overlord_Odin at 14/05/2020 at 00:24 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Can mod awards be moved to the top of the "give award" list? It's a pain to have to scroll down to find mod awards each time and it won't actually change anything for most people.
Comment by cahaseler at 13/05/2020 at 23:59 UTC
13 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Can you make it available via automod or api so we can handle it with our slack bot and get notifications?
Comment by shiruken at 13/05/2020 at 23:57 UTC*
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Wait, are you just announcing a feature that already existed? I used this the other day[1] to hide inappropriate awards given to a post in r/science...
Comment by MysteriousPanzer at 15/05/2020 at 01:29 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
“New Reddit only” Ah, so it doesn’t exist, then.
Comment by reseph at 13/05/2020 at 23:55 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Hmm, I thought this feature has been around for a while? Are you saying this is new as of today?
Comment by WarpvsWeft at 14/05/2020 at 16:58 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Just curious, how many times a day does someone in the product team say *"Maybe, but our job isn't to make the moderators happy, it's to make the users happy"* as a reason to ignore our input?
Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2020 at 00:00 UTC
46 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2020 at 00:26 UTC*
55 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'll be blunt: this does jack all shit.
(1) Only applies to new reddit.
(2) The award has to be given first, so the issues with it being used to harass people through related messages or the image of the award is *still* a problem.
(3) We cannot disable it in advance. If we do disable it, users get a notice the mods did it.
(4) ~~The award giver AND recipient are both notified when it is hidden, further pushing point 2. (Also, if multiple of the same awards are given is *everyone* involved notified?)~~ Nevermind, seems you retroactively fixed this, although that doesn't prevent users from bitching to the mods in modmail about it.
(5) It doesn't remove the award entirely, it just replaces it with ?. Can't wait for the 9000 comments about "what award was that?!?!"
Why even bother? You're clearly not listening to the problems mods and users are having with this. You're clearly not interested in stopping it from being used as a form of harassment.
I won't bother to include screenshots, since I'd only be accused of faking them anyway.
Comment by ani625 at 15/05/2020 at 03:14 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
FYI
Dailydot did an article on this - https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-awards-harassment/
Comment by WarpvsWeft at 14/05/2020 at 16:55 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
"Unfortunately, **we apparently had no idea until the moderators mentioned it that** not all users have the best intentions"
FTFY.
Comment by DubTeeDub at 14/05/2020 at 00:38 UTC
20 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I raised this issue earlier this week and appreciate the response and effort here
I still have several concerns
Comment by LoudImportance at 15/05/2020 at 16:21 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I am, as ever, curious about one thing: do any admins actually use the site?
Comment by HandicapperGeneral at 14/05/2020 at 06:07 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Maybe instead of continuing to create stop gap solutions for a problem of your own making, just fucking stop. Stop trying to turn an eternal increasing profit. Let the community just be a goddamn community and stop forcing your capitalistic bullshit on us. The three awards we had before were honestly terrible enough and then you added custom Capitalism. Pay 4.99 to get your face on this reddit post. It honestly feels like you jerkoffs have been intentionally making the worst decisions you possibly could for the last five years. I hope one of you grows a brain and some balls sometime this decade
Comment by db2 at 14/05/2020 at 07:15 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Go back to just gold, this problem gets instantly solved.
Comment by starfleetbrat at 14/05/2020 at 01:31 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Any chance we could get some extra stats we can use for awards? like, for a "top contributor" award it would be useful to see who posted the most in a month/year.
Comment by O-shi at 14/05/2020 at 20:50 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Finally some progress. When get we get this feature on old Reddit or even mobile.
Comment by binarysaurus at 14/05/2020 at 22:34 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
When will this feature be made available on old reddit? Since all the awards are visible on old reddit why can't hide functionality be extended to it too?
Comment by CaptainPedge at 14/05/2020 at 00:50 UTC*
14 upvotes, 2 direct replies
This feature is currently only available on new Reddit
Fucks sake. Really? So if someone on bad reddit hides an award will users on useable reddit see it?
Yet again, you've come up with a new feature nobody asked for which has made it harder for the volunteer army who do most of the actual work on this site. When will you stop pushing shite like this out and actually talk to the moderators?
