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Comment by GaryARefuge at 28/08/2020 at 20:54 UTC
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One thing I really want that relates to Item 2 is a system to leverage Post Flair in a much more meaningful manner.
Allow a sub to choose a default set of Post Flairs to show a user that is visiting the sub.
We have very strict rules due to the overwhelming amount of noisy submissions made by our community. Our rules reduced our quantity of posts by about 75% while raising the quality of posts to a meaningful level.
That said, we want to have the means to foster a specific culture in our community while encouraging people to make more posts.
If we could use Post Flair to hide those noisy submissions by default, that would be huge.
A user could then click on specific Post Flair or a pre-defined set of Post Flair to change what they are seeing.
It would be even better if a user could customize what set of Post Flairs they wish to see by default while visiting a sub.
This would allow Moderators to highlight what they feel is the most meaningful content for their members while also allowing the individual member to further curate the content they most want to see. It would improve everyone's overall experience and level of engagement.
Loosely Mocked Up Filter Controls tied to Link Flair (User POV):
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1: https://i.imgur.com/KnU7mhe.png
2: https://i.imgur.com/KnU7mhe.png
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3: https://i.imgur.com/cAlC9I7.png
4: https://i.imgur.com/cAlC9I7.png
Comment by uhyeahokwhateva at 28/08/2020 at 23:46 UTC
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This is the most important and meaningful thing I've read in this thread IMO. Agree with all of the points. We can't even do CSS markup on new reddit and that was promised when it launched and hasn't been officially (to my knowledge) scrapped. Paid admins are trying to round up the volunteer troops to make them more money when we already do our damndest just to keep whatever communities we moderate/curate alive. Now we have to wear the uniform too? No thanks.
Comment by CedarWolf at 29/08/2020 at 05:56 UTC
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little to no tools that allow us to effectively communicate with our members directly,
Point of order, it's actually *harder* to reach out to users these days, because there is Old Reddit, New Reddit, a slew of competing third party apps, and subreddits also have direct chats and chat rooms.
It used to be if you sent someone a direct message, they would get it.
The least we could do is merge direct chats and private messages into a dedicated inbox for each user, so you can easily browse your incoming messages.
Comment by Watchful1 at 28/08/2020 at 20:56 UTC
-4 upvotes, 4 direct replies
For 1, what extra work do you have to do to replicate things between old and new reddit? There's the sidebar, which I admit is annoying, and the style, but that's only a big deal if you change it all the time. But for most everything else you can just do stuff on the redesign and the old site follows along fine.
For 2, that isn't really any concrete ideas. What does "highlight our members as mentors or leaders" or "roles to empower our own community members in supportive roles to us Mods" look like to you? How do other social media platforms address these issues that reddit doesn't?
For 3, I think this is the worst idea I've ever heard. Tying moderation to making money would be absolutely terrible and would be a fast track to ruining reddit. There are so many ways this would be abused and very little chance it would lead to better moderation.
Comment by justcool393 at 29/08/2020 at 08:00 UTC
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1. agree
2. flairs, stickies, polls all exist on reddit natively. heck even the welcome messages, etc, etc all exist.
3. lol monetizing moderation would be a terrible idea and would encourage mods to be straight up abusive. you'd get the worst of the worst for moderators who just do it for money.
