Comment by 0perspective on 20/08/2020 at 20:12 UTC

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View submission: Updated Feature: Scheduled & Recurring Posts

If you were to write the product specifications for post as a subreddit (aka post as a mod team), what would your top features and requirements be?

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Comment by Georgy_K_Zhukov at 20/08/2020 at 20:22 UTC

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The post would need to be editable by any member of the modteam , regardless of who posted it. Sometimes relevant info changes, but the mod who posted it went to sleep or something.

Comment by MajorParadox at 20/08/2020 at 20:16 UTC*

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It should work like "reply as subreddit" in modmail. That way we can do so from our own accounts and other mods can see who posted or commented.

It would also have to work as a pre-selection, unlike distinguish. Otherwise, users would see your username before you set the flag. On that note, might as well add distinguish options when posting and commenting so we don't have to set it after the fact either. Or maybe roll it all into the same feature at once (regular, mod-distinguished, subreddit-distinguished).

Comment by reseph at 20/08/2020 at 20:22 UTC*

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The ability for any moderator to edit the resulting post after it has gone live if "post as a subreddit". And revision history would be ideal.

Comment by itsalsokdog at 20/08/2020 at 21:23 UTC

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Not for any subreddits I mod, but I have seen other subreddits like r/modguide and r/modhelp have a permanent sticky post.

Being able to bypass the archiver for team-posts that are also stickied could be useful for some subreddits.

Comment by kenman at 22/08/2020 at 15:57 UTC

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I think it's high time that u/AutoModerator posts as the subreddit.

u/AutoModerator *appears* to be a real user, but isn't. Those of us who've been around awhile obviously know this, but what's your onboarding look like for introducing users to the nebulous u/AutoModerator?

*So we have this bot, it looks like a real user, but it's not, so don't message it because you'll be ignored.*

Replies to u/AutoModerator (which as you would know, happen quite frequently) are not surfaced to the subreddit's mods. You can append whatever blurb you want to their comments, but people still reply. You ain't going to fix the user end of that problem.

Comment by argetholo at 20/08/2020 at 21:15 UTC

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Echoing others here;

1 Same idea as "Reply as Subreddit" in modmail, be able to post as the Subreddit instead of the individual

2 Allow all mods access to edit and log edits in mod action (or create toggle to limit access in mod permissions)

Comment by bakonydraco at 21/08/2020 at 19:47 UTC

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This is a big step forward, but the main thing I'm missing now appears to be the ability to set sticky position on a *recurring* post. The use case I have is a subreddit that has a weekly thread that's always the same in the bottom sticky position. I want to be able to set it and forget it that a fresh post goes up at the same time every week and is stickied. I can do the former as a recurring post, but it still has to be manually stickied.

Comment by MadlockUK at 21/08/2020 at 10:07 UTC

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For me I'd like to be able to do the following:

• Scheduled an Event post with the event starting at a different time. For example, r/lcfc 's match threads will post an hour before to discuss the line ups and build up to the match. The match will go on for roughly two hours then replaced by post-match thread
• Sticky series would be good. I noticed in the new scheduling you have a 'first sticky' and 'second sticky'. It'd be good if we had a sticky series as football subs will always have rival watch threads each week, pre-, post- and general match threads every week (if not more often), and then transfer discussions weekly. Plus we do occasional community events for fun competitions or to announce changes to the sub.
• As a Mod, I'd like to post as the sub. I get a lot of 'glory' for leading the charge, but if we have mod created things, it'd be good for there to be a generic user of 'lcfcmod' for r/lcfc as an example.
• In terms of scheduling events, it would be nice if we could arrange this in a calendar or even a step further sync it to a calendar to make for easier management. Again, in the football world, events will change to accommodate various competitions and manually editing can be quite laborious as it stands, and hard to read in a list format sometimes.

Comment by riiga at 21/08/2020 at 06:54 UTC

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That it works on old reddit.

Comment by Hugo_Chadvez at 20/08/2020 at 21:18 UTC

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The post would need to be editable on both new and old reddit. Old reddit should have the capacity to create these posts and view them natively.

Get what I'm saying? Old reddit support damnit.

Comment by wm_1176 at 20/08/2020 at 20:16 UTC

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The ability to have scheduled posts be pinned (which you already have)!

The ability to ban users from commenting on specific scheduled posts (i.e. a user is good most of the time in your community, but on a weekly thread they always do one annoying thing).

Thanks for you constant work that you do to make reddit even better!

Comment by nevertruly at 31/08/2020 at 14:23 UTC

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Specific to scheduling posts: The ability to automatically lock the post. We have scheduled posts that we use as announcements of themed days and currently have to lock them manually each time.

Comment by lovethebacon at 10/09/2020 at 19:54 UTC

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This is almost exactly what I asked for in the recent mod poll. I'm thankful that enough other mods had the same idea for it to be considered. Thank you!

My thoughts were around the API. I suck at product specifications as I make them overly technical. I really would like a comment to be marked as having a hidden author on submission,

• Introduce isAuthorHidden parameter to POST /api/comment.
• Introduce isAuthorHidden parameter to POST /api/submit.
• Introduce CanHideAuthor moderator permission. Only moderators with this permission may set the parameter to true.
• Modify POST /api/distinguish to add "isAuthorHidden" parameter to modify the comment or submission. (Not convinced by this, might need a new endpoint)

When comment or submission is retrieved, if isAuthorHidden==true then change author to the subreddit name like what is done for POST /api/mod/conversations

From reddit's frontend, add a toggle to comment (good luck figuring out that, as I have no idea) and submission form to enable author hiding.

Comment by allhands at 10/09/2020 at 20:15 UTC

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Not exactly what you're asking, but a removal note when removing a post (right now you can do this by assigning and editing a flair, but that's clunky and time consuming).

Comment by AssuredlyAThrowAway at 20/08/2020 at 20:38 UTC

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I think users should be given some insight into who made the post for the purposes of oversight.

Beyond that it should work like any other sticky post.