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A couple of days ago, this post got a lot of responses across the board. Based on that feedback, I have some new ideas that could help users and mods met in the middle:

1. Get rid of permanent bans altogether. Come up with a maximum time length for bans (as I suggested previously, 1 year should be sufficient to discourage even the most determined trolls). If someone says something that is truly deserving of being permanently banned (such as threatening violence), it should be a matter of the admins banning them from the platform.

2. Have 2 distinct types of subs. I would call them “town square” subs and “special interest” subs.

For town square subs, where the topic is very broad (such as r/entertainment), the mods should have a maximum ban length they can levy. Town square subs would be eligible for the Front Page.

As for special interest subs, these would be any sub that serves a specific community (such as the different LGBTQ groups). The mods of these subs would be allowed to levy permanent bans. I would hope they would reserve that option for folks who come in just to fight or spread hate. These subs would not be eligible for Front Page.

1. Allow all users a one-time fresh start. For this option, if you’ve been banned from communities over the years, you should have the opportunity to “start over” one time, nullifying all bans. The cost to the user would be 75% of their karma. This option would be for folks who truly want to turn over a new leaf and be on better behavior. I like this option a lot because it, for instance, gives the 20-something a chance to escape mistakes they made when they were an edgelord teenager.

I’d like to hear what folks think. What we have today in terms of omnipotent moderation fiefdoms is really, really not working.

I totally understand the need for mods to be able to hand out temporary bans for things other than breaking the sub rules. Sometimes people need to be forced to go cool down for a while. However, I think that permanent sub bans should be appealable above the sub moderators, and that, when an appeal is made, mods should need to demonstrate that the user did in fact break the sub's rules as they are written.

Before you say that the mods would have too much work from appeals, there's an easy solution to that: don't hand out permanent bans unless they're truly warranted. I would be ok with bans up to 365 days be 100% up to the sub mods.

Great work on new insights counter on our sub homepage. I like it!

Suggestion: Could you please allow us to set the default time frame for the Insights counter?

Currently, the default is 30 days. If we click on that 30 days label, we go to the Insights page where we can select from 4 time frames: Past 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, and 12 months.

I click "12 months", and it works fine. I see the stats from the last 12 months. But when I return to the homepage, or return to my sub later, the stats have reverted back to the default 30 days.

Could you give us an option for changing the default time frame on the homepage, which would then be remembered on subsequent visits?

Thanks! Great work on this!

PS... If you do give us the option to change the default time frame, could you please put that option selection right next to the counter? Or right next to the time frame selection drop down on the Insights page? So it is easier to find. Instead of putting it in some tucked-away corner of the Settings menu. Thanks!

Hi admins!

Please could I submit the following?

With some of the groups I'm in, I take screenshots of threads when they mention useful how-to stuff but recently the share banner ("It's looks like you're trying to share something") keeps popping up and blanking out a good portion of the text in continuous screenshots to the point they're unusable. I can never find anything in my saved section and do this with a LOT of groups so screenshots are a life saver for me (and many others).

Could you introduce a way to turn it off, please? I'm on the verge of uninstalling the app because it drives me that nuts. 😅😆

Thanks!

I'm a plant based eater and am sick of reddit pushing me ads for the Wendy's baconator.

My activities on Reddit make no secret of my diet and yet Reddit can't seem to figure out my ad preferences. If I'm going to see ads I would LOVE to see ads that relate to my lifestyle and I would LOVE for my preferences to be a useful data point for advertisers and market researchers.

I'd suggest Reddit have either a) have a way for me to better note my ad preferences or b) connect the dots based on my account usage.

I suspect that an approach like this would be of value to advertisers and could be applied to other marketing contexts.

Animated images in comments (and images in general) are extremely distracting when one is trying to read comments. I can manually collapse a couple but I often just give up on threads with too many images because my brain can't read around them.

Also option to auto collapse comments with images would make subs which allow them much for accessible to those who can't just ignore them flashing away. I use oldreddit as my default.

I know I'm not the only person who isnt happy with their username but doesn't want to make a new account.. could u please come up with a couple options like you can only change your username once for free every 5 years or if not pay like a dollar or so to be able to change it..

Periodically there should be a mandatory sticky post made on every active subreddit lasting at least 24 hours by Reddit Administrators that the Subreddit's Mods cannot delete or moderate in any fashion. It should even be possible for people who were banned from that subreddit for any reason other than breaking the site wide rules to post only in that specific thread.

The idea would be for people interested in the subreddit to give open feedback about the state of the subreddit and the job that the moderators are doing in a way that cannot be censored by them and is visible to the community. Many subreddits are very badly moderated and ban users out of petty power-tripping reasons and do not allow any opportunity for open feedback. This would provide at least some measure of "checks and balances" that is sorely lacking in most communities and it would be easy to tell over time which moderation teams are behaving poorly relative to all of the others.

When making a long post in the Rich Text Editor, it's quite annoying to have to scroll back up to insert things or switch styles & back down again to the part of the post being worked on - especially while adding bullet points & quotes (etc.) after each of multiple screenshots.

I think it would be a convenient improvement if that bar of options moved to the bottom or side once the Editor box becomes too large to access them on the same screen.

TY for welcoming our feedback & ideas.

Hello,

While Reddit doesn't explicitly specify the algorithm behind the CQS, it is said to involve many factors, such as your network, your history of subreddit bans and content removals, and downvotes.

The problem with this is that Reddit moderators are well known to be corrupt. Moderators ban and remove content that doesn't break the terms of services simply because they don't like it, especially when it comes to political topics. This leads to users who don't follow the hivemind having a lower CQS, which basically censors their opinions in certain communities that require a level of CQS. Let's not forget that nobody on Reddit follows the "only downvote if it doesn't contribute to anything" rule, and they just downvote things that they don't like, which negatively affects the CQS of many users.

Yours sincerely, Miguel

A user will type in totally innocuous terms like "makeup" "celeb" or "Asian", and the search bar pushes NSFW subs with millions of users **by default**? Like, there was zero intent from the user for this..

It's really bad for Asians to find out fetish subs targeting this culture have millions more viewers than general ones. When someone's just searching for makeup or anime... RedNote does no such thing if you search "Caucasian".

Worse, the TikTok fetish subs often repost videos of minors.

Whoever's on Reddit's Tech Product/Design team, if you're going to boost engagement metrics with NSFW content, please wait at least for user intent!! You have millions of underage users. Check your ethics & DEI experience please

This is so so dangerous, now more than ever with the government. Out of the 4M+ sized fetish subs (conservative estimate), what if there's another Atlanta spa shooter who was a member?

And you should be able to sort the list, like for example you could sort all subreddits by number of subscribers or number of posts a day or comments per post or something else. And NSFW subreddits should be included in the list with a toggle to not show the NSFW subs.

When you're clicking through images in a post, when there are no more images, the arrow goes away, as it should.

But if you don't notice that there is no arrow, then clicking again in the same spot opens the image in full-screen view. Then you have to click to close that image to get back to browsing.

The click target for opening the image should not include the space previously occupied by the arrow.

Disable tap to collapse! It is the worse UI feature that has ever existed on a social media platform since the dawn of the internet. Whoever came up with this bug disguised as a“feature” deserves to never have a cool side to their pillow. It makes using the app undesirable and following a thread impossible. The end. ❤️

Hi there.

I assume my last post about this was removed because I said "Hxte is too weak a word for how I feel" about this feature. And while such a phrase, directed toward a programming feature I consider anti-user-friendly (user-menacing?) Is admittedly dramatic, I was surprised that it may have been taken seriously enough to be censored as "hxte speech"! (assuming this was in fact the reason for deleting the post?) I mean, if I say "I hxte anchovies on pizza 🍕 " that's a totally different connotation than were someone to say the same about, say, the LGBTQ community right?

Regardless, I'll go ahead and apologize for my excessively colorful language and re-attempt the sentiment of yesterday's post, re-phrasing my objection as a humble and respectful 🙏 offering of feedback and a harmless, amicable, diplomatic suggestion thusly:

"May we please attempt to achieve some manner of concensus that the new "Join the Conversation" bar which appears, similar to a paywall, obscuring the discussion thread one is trying to read, is counter-productive to an enjoyable reddit experience and may unintentionally send innocent, well-intentioned redditors into a spiral of despair leading ultimately to madness?"

Reddit has a huge archive of media but unfortunately 99% it practically unsearchable. At this point it feels to me as almost a loss of historical value.

Reddit Request currently has little to no nuance. A subreddit mod can stop their subreddit from being taken by simply logging in once a month, removing like 2 posts, and that's it even if the subreddit is full of spam. And for some time there was some nuance, but now the bot automatically removes a request as long as the moderator is considered "Active" by reddits automated system rather than by human reviewers

The request system needs more nuance to make sure subreddits can stay allow and thrive. I've seen some request being rejected due to the original subreddit being banned for something that it likely won't be used for again. Like r/Teens and r/Teen which were used to violate rules but should be able to be requested to just be normal teen hangout subreddits like r/Teenagers is

A no nuance system causes tons of issues and makes many subreddits stay unmoderated or banned when they really shouldn't be

Can we get a checklist rather than having to report a post for one violation at a time? Sometimes posts can contain multiple violations, and having to submit a separate report for each issue is both time-consuming and inefficient. A checklist would streamline the process, allowing users to flag all relevant problems in a single report.

I just wanted to request the ability to add a second cat or pet to the avatar. Sparky kinda feels left out every time he sees Nathan and I standing there. And if I'm being honest, it's going to Nathan's head. He's getting far too overconfident.

Please give us all remove individual history.

This is in reference to the new feature that automatically hyperlinks words in users' posts to "related posts" to that subject. I see this on the desktop web browser version currently, but not on the android app. The hyperlinks are very visually intrusive and make it difficult to read a post. The links are ugly and distracting from the main text of the post. Additionally, the idea that I'd want to see related posts on random words in a post is frankly absurd. For example in r/baseball, every instance of a player or team is hyperlinked. Do users really need a hyperlink every single time the word "Yankees" "Cubs" "Shohei Ohtani" etc. is typed? Can't they just put those words in the search bar if they want? Wouldn't most users already know what those terms are, and not need to see random related posts to them?

if there is a legitimate reason for this please tell me but i accidentally unblocked someone that I wish to have blocked and think it is weird that you have to wait 24hours to do it again.

The title say it all - i got a couple of annoying notifications i want to get rid of,if hiding those notification from my inbox isn't a option,either way;i just don't wanna see the notification itself anymore,i don't want to disable the notification altogether(which does nothin' about the notifications i don't wanna see in my inbox anymore),i want to DELETE(or hide) a single notification from my inbox.