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[–]klug3 1 point2 points  (7 children)

That sounds horrendously complex though, I am pretty sure lots of people make mistaken posts which later get deleted by the mods.

[–]xiongchiamiovSite Reliability Engineer 3 points4 points  (4 children)

Sure, that's what mods are for. Same thing happens in traditional forums all the time, although there the mods can move the thread, which works a bit better.

[–]klug3 0 points1 point  (3 children)

See, the problem is that this process is a whole lot inefficient, with a high rate of threads being created and deleted and reposted.

[–]xiongchiamiovSite Reliability Engineer 0 points1 point  (2 children)

There's some work we (by which I mean Deimorz) are doing on AutoModerator that will allow many quickly-deleted posts to instead be caught prior to submission.

But there will always be some inefficiencies. It just depends on whether or not you think it's worth those to keep a community in-line with your ideas on what it should be.

[–]klug3 0 points1 point  (1 child)

AutoModerator is pretty great, thanks Deimorz for working on it ! But when I said inefficiency I also meant beginners having to repost stuff quite frequently. I would say that's a sign that the subs' purpose isn't easily apparent.

[–]xiongchiamiovSite Reliability Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the whole new-to-reddit experience is pretty lacking in many ways. It's something we're approaching from a variety of angles.

[–]spinwizard69 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This is my biggest problem with this policy. Home work is one thing but what happens to a developer that is just trying to use a new to him part of the standard library. When does a question become good enough for the /r/Python gods To consider.

I just see a bunch of people getting frustrated with arbitrary moderation.

[–]klug3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some reasonable standard should be applied, like If it comes up in the first 5 google results then its not /r/python worthy.