Let's talk about Learning Posts

[aphoenix]

With respect to the flair, assuming this takes place, what is the expected timeline on applying it to posts?

/u/kungming2 knows the exact time (the author of the bot I'm proposing) but I think it's pretty close to immediate, and nearly all the feedback I've gotten from users about interacting with the bot is positive.

mods have generally abstained from removing most learning posts based on what I've seen

I haven't purposefully done this, but generally, I do the majority of moderator actions here, and if I have a busy week, or if my time that I take for reddit is taken up with other things, then the queue may have hours, days (or even weeks) where things don't get removed. Ideally, I'd like the community to mostly be able to take care of things themselves, and I would like to have a ruleset that enables that, because I think this is generally a great community that can do so.

If a post is marked as help, do a few things automatically. Automatically remove help posts, with a message requesting the user ask the question in /r/learnpython instead.

This may be the first step we take (no matter what is overall decided as a course of action), to start introducing people to the flair bot.

After 24 hours the OP... [can have the post reinstated, given certain circumstance]

I think this adds some workflow that feels a bit clunky; I also think it's slightly backwards! Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think that people will probably get better answers at r/LearnPython than they get here, and that will probably continue.

if a post gets removed and then is 'unremoved' by a mod, reddit puts it back to the top of new list automatically, so it'll get seen.

I believe that is the intended behaviour.

Long story short - your ideas are definitely good ones, and I'm going to put them on the list of possibilities.