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Hey—This is a really great call out, and “Reddit literacy” is something we absolutely want to improve. We have a few initiatives around onboarding new redditors into communities as well as plans to talk directly with moderators to understand these types of concerns. With all of that said, it does make sense to also ensure new redditors understand not only the rules within a community but our Content Policy as a whole. Thanks for this feedback—we’ll look more into it, and would be interested in hearing more from you (or others) if there are ideas you have on what else you’d like to see.
Comment by Overgrown_fetus1305 at 02/06/2022 at 22:42 UTC
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Follow-up question to the above suggestion- would you consider requiring this of moderators if they want to make subreddits, or mod subreddits as taking effect after a certain date? I suspect it's a controversial suggestion indeed, but it would potentially improve the standard of moderation and stop things like users being banned from one sub for posting on other subs, or other cases of mod abuse. And I'm saying this as somebody that mods a roughly 6.3K user subreddit, with a stack more users likely on the way in a few weeks due to some US politics.
Comment by SolariaHues at 03/06/2022 at 20:08 UTC*
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Hi :)
One thing might be a short and concise optional 'tour' for new redditors to highlight navigation, and that Reddit is made up of communities with their own rules, how to find help, and the intended usage of the vote buttons.
Or more instructional guides in the help center?