r/ideasfortheadmins

There should be a “new user welcome” identifier

Honestly, I kinda wish Reddit changed how downvotes worked.

Right now, people mostly use them as an I disagree’ button instead of what Reddiquette originally intended. Half the time, you can post something completely reasonable and still get buried just because the subreddit's mood is against you.

I almost feel like if you downvote someone, Reddit should pop up a small window to make you pick a reason first:

• off-topic
• misinformation
• harassment
• low effort etc

At least then people would know WHY they’re being downvoted instead of just getting silently dogpiled by subjective opinions and hivemind voting.

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Screenshot of and Link to Reddiquette provided

If people under the age of 13 aren't allowed to have an account, why are their pictures allowed on Reddit?

There is zero reason to allow photos of children. We shouldnt be using photos without consent and kids arent able to consent to their photo being shared.

Im open to being wrong, but I would love for this to be implemented.

Hello, I’ve encountered an issue. I have received notifications for comments that say that I should kill myself. If I click on it to go to it, it isn’t there, because reddit’s filters have snagged it. But there the abuse is in my inbox. Because it was caught, the comment isn’t visible. Because it isn’t visible, I can’t report it. But there it is in my notifications.

So reddit knows this message shouldn’t be visible, but sends it to me anyway? That needs to be fixed. There are plenty of vulnerable people all over this place. What is currently happening is they are the only people who see the abuse, and they have no way to report it.

Note: My previous post on this subject was removed by the mods, because it was construed as complaining. So in this post, I am trying to avoid anything that looks like complaining.

I have found some Reddit sub-forums have moderators who will instantly ban you on your first post on their forum for no good reason. I will give you an example shortly.

So if you are like me and have a wide range of interests, and like to post on hundreds of different Reddit forums, after a few years, as your Reddit account builds up more and more bans, the account becomes rather restricted in terms of where you can post.

Thus my proposal is that on Reddit, bans should not be permanent, but only have a certain duration, like say 3 months or 6 months. That way, if you happen to be banned for no good reason, your account is not permanently restricted by the ban.

Here is an example of a ban I recently received for no good reason. I came across some information that might help prevent the development of myopia from near work (near work such as reading books or staring at computer screens). As I software developer myself, I believe my myopia was made a lot worse during my 20s from spending all day gazing at computer screens as part of my job.

So I thought this myopia prevention idea might be valuable to other software developers, and made a post about it on the Reddit C++ software language sub-forum. The result was that my thread got deleted, and I was instantly banned. That to me seems like a ban for no good reason. (However, I am not complaining, I am just giving this an example of how bans can occur for no good reason). So now if I have any C++ questions, I cannot post on that forum, because my Reddit account is permanently restricted from posting there.

I have had many similar bans like this, for no good reason. It's one thing to have your thread deleted because mods believe it is not appropriate for their forum, but it is quite another when they also instantly ban you from the forum as well, often on your very first post on the forum.

Edit: I wrote the word in for you guys, remove periods. The word seems to refer to underage people

I'm not sure how long things like this typically take or what steps need to take place for something to be done, but I'm a little concerned why the word "b.o.p" is still allowed to be used in subreddit/account names

I feel like there are other variations of two/three word phrases that can be used in conjunction with "b.o.p" to combat comments using this term as well

Sorry if I'm missing something here! I wanted to gather your opinions on this

Have you ever wondered if any of your other Mods are online?

Perhaps an indicator/icon beside their name? Only for other Mods to see though (like the Inactive tag). Public would not see it.

Ideally, accrued Online time for each Mod could be logged within the Mod Tools Mods and Members page.

This would be anytime they're logged in to the site, not just viewing or acting within each community they Mod, though that might be nice too.

My idea is simple, really. Instead of asking users to be "civil" and "constructive" and not be "destructive" in every set of rules, how about ensuring a certain quality to the moderators in place, who delete every post they happen to personally dislike, no matter the upvotes it gets?

Concentrating only on the "tech" aspects of a community at the expense of what makes it a community is bound to lead to disaster. I am not going to stay long here myself, as this is not the discourse I look for, but I have used reddit a lot in the past and it has always been a source of information, so it would be sad to see it go. And by the many messages about the state of things, it is not a completely impossible scenario.

As a developer, it seems that if I don't meet the posting or commenting requirements, reddit could grey out those links or turn them red to indicate I need to check the rules, or something else in real time instead of having a bot notify me after the fact.

Many comments get removed for not enough karma. It's frustrating. Especially after I craft a thoughtful response. I've learned to copy my response and put it in my notebook so I can use it again later, since a lot of questions resurface.

This account is new because I want to separate my personal reddit account from my professional account. When it was just for fun, getting a post or comment removed after the fact was easier to brush off. Being back at the beginning of karma is difficult and being unable to post or comment impacts the time I should be earning money.

I've been on the internet since 1987. I'm not some fly-by-night scammer. I remember the first USENET spam and the difficulties brought on by Eternal September and allowing commercial use. I'm hoping to help reddit be more healthy and useful.

Thanks!

Specially after reading comments, would be good to have a "back to the top" arrow

Based on the current situation across the site, I feel that I would enjoy using the site more if shady and karma farming accounts could be hidden en masse. I have thought about this for a while, and I hope this could be implemented easily.

The current system provides a way for toxic users to send insults via a chat request, so their insult is conveyed whether you accept or ignore the request.

If a user is banned and sends a brand new modmail I want to archive it and then tell him to use the modmail that got him banned from that modmail (very easy for the user to accidentally archive it and it cannot be restored)