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Loving the shorter smaller posts lately!
Why was the recent post on birding removed? It was popular, got a lot of engagement, and many users were celebrating the return to form of small stakes hobby drama. Sure, there weren't sources, but the recent rules update only says sources must be provided if possible, not that they're required. And i can easily believe that for local drama there aren't any.
Sorry, that was in error – I must have reflexively removed it while looking through the reports queue and not vetted it properly. Mea culpa!
Apologizing and fixing your mistake? That doesn't stir up drama!
Why aren't you doubling-down on the removal and accusing the poster of personally harassing you? I expect more from the mod team here.
The day this sub gets featured on r/youtubedrama, we'll have come full circle.
Thanks for restoring it
It got edited to add a gambling ad for Stake lol
Original version, compare the last paragraph
Sigh of course it did.
Keep up the good work, mods and community. This place is starting to feel alive again 🤟
I use arctic shift (a website that lets you see deleted reddit posts and comments) frequently, just for the lulz to see the deleted posts in this sub. Thanks to the mod team for dealing with fake posts and general spam as fast as you do.
Also, a fake post about people just believing things people claim online, hilarious.
I thought there was going to be older popular posts recycled through the sub to get some activity going? Am I crazy and make that up? Or was it just a suggestion that never made it far? Because I’ve been waiting for that to start happening lol.
...er, can't say I recall any of us ever saying that, but happy to be corrected! What we did say was that we encouraged long-form Scuffles posts to be made into full-on posts.
At the end here
I guess I assumed incorrectly that there would be some sort of push to make that happen with older posts being moved to the main page. Shouldn’t have assumed that! I got it in my head that this would be a thing going forward haha. Should have paid more attention.
Not a mod, but if you're excited by the idea, maybe you should make a push for it to happen? I don't mean this as a snide suggestion, I swear. I was just thinking that, even if you don't have any Scuffles posts you yourself want to repost, maybe people who have good Scuffles posts would enjoy being contacted and asked if they'd mind you adapting it into a full post?
Have you considered turning off archiving? I'd love to at least be able to vote on old posts.
Theoretically possible but we don't have a live feed of new comments coming in, and there's a lot of risk inherent in letting users post in very old threads that are hard for mods to monitor but which turn up easily when searching offsite.
Ah, that's true I suppose. I honestly mainly wanted voting, I like reading old posts and seeing my upvote is an easy indicator I've read that one before.
Yesterday, a post I saw about niche perfume got removed for likely being AI. Good job, mods. One thing I did see was the mod removal comment that said it was caught when the moderator couldn’t fact check any of the content. Could a moderator explain what’s typically done and why it was done in this case? I imagine it was because of a lack of links.
Do y'all maybe want to set new post submissions to be manually approved by mods? It's been a few times now I saw a write-up with an interesting title only to come back to read it later and find it removed, with no way to know if it would be reposted again in two weeks or if it had some other issues.
The one that was just removed today was actually an ai submission posted by a bot. Another one we had recently was posted by a spammer that edited in a spam link.
Sounds even more so that manual approval could be beneficial, then.
The classic tradeoff for that is visibility, mainly because the mod team is neither very large nor very consistently online, and so we'd risk throttling the reach of new posts by doing that. For what it's worth, I do manually go over recent posts to approve them, but posts come infrequently enough to not be easily worked into a normal moderating workflow. We do at least try to specify in a removal message whether and when to repost something (though if we've slacked on that, mea culpa), but I admit that's not an ideal outcome.
Long story short, I don't know that there's an elegant solution to the issue, but a more robust approvals process does have merit.
Late, but I'm rereading this post because I forgot I'd read these comments already until halfway through them, and:
Just to clarify, but what would be the issue with visibility? Perhaps I'm overestimating the level of inactivity, but wouldn't a post not be really affected view-wise by when it goes up? I don't think time of day particularly matters considering posts stay on the front page for a good while; we get posts slowly enough that I don't think a 24-72 hour wait period would be all that bad, and I don't think us plebians would particularly notice a difference in the rate of writeups getting posted. So maybe there might be less downsides to this than you're thinking!
Mainly because not everyone browses Reddit by looking at specific subreddits, but instead might look at a general feed. There's a recency bias to the algorithm for showing you posts from your subscribed subs, so a post not actually being visible for 8, 12, even 24 hours will mean it never gets promoted to many if not most users.
Is there something special about the hobby scuffle's posts? I've noticed they are invisible once I view them, and that doesn't seem to happen to other posts. I have removed every post I have ever hidden on Reddit from my hidden list, so it can't be me hitting that button every week.
It happened after I started using RedReader, but I can't see the post in the browser either. Is there a second way of hiding posts I might be doing by accident?
This sounds like a reddit bug. Mods can't affect the visiblity of comments unless we remove them and 99% of scuffles comments stay up.
Sorry, to clarify: The entire POST vanishes, not comments inside it. If I use a link, the back button, etc, I can view and comment on the post, but I can't see it when looking at the reddit.
Yeah this makes me certain it's a reddit bug. Try r/help or r/bugs.
Thank you!
I am here seeking clarification regarding flairs.
Is "Heavy" flair applicable to hobby history posts or is it just for hobby drama posts? If the second, what's the policy for hobby history posts that can be considered as rather heavy?
I am currently writing a hobby history post about infamous Diabolik Lovers and the whole franchise is based on heavy topics.
Also, having a clarification would be useful for potential hobby history posts focused on horror, vulture culture and other hobbies that tend to come with trigger warnings.
Heavy is a separate flair for a post that has heavy content.
Trigger warnings can be put in separately at the top of posts.
I'm interested in maybe posting something on here but wondering if there is a karma minimum as I would want to use a throwaway. Thank you.
There is but we don't like giving out hard numbers due to bots/spammers. We've had to instill some slightly harsher anti-spam measures in recent weeks. So the alt would have to be a bit experienced on reddit to be able to post.
Though I guess I can vet the post and approve it after you've posted it.
It seems like the official discord server linked in the sidebar isn't really affiliated with this subreddit anyone? At least that's what they told me on there. It might be better to rename it.
Even if we’re separate we still drive traffic to each other (plus the discord is a cool place).
yeah it's just that i asked questions about stuff on the discord server and was told to ask on the subreddit instead
If it's a question about the subreddit, then ask the subreddit, if it's about the discord, then ask on the discord.
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We’ve had the profile pic/banner for years. Way before ai was even a thing lol.
I stand corrected. My apologies! Where are the graphics from then/who created them?
This is the info I could glean from the sidebar on old reddit. Ill try and do some digging later.