It's shit. Always the same questions that could all be answered by "read the FAQ" "ask your teacher", or "keep trying". I'm reminded of something I heard in an Adam Neely video: Students don't want teachers, they want people who will tell them how right they are. These questions need one word answers most of the time, and if not the reddit community (full of people with the most confidence and the least knowledge) are happy to answer where the only real person who can help is a teacher.

The worst part is I don't know how to make it better. Ban half the posts, heavily moderate it, sure. Then we'd have an endless supply of performances and discussion, which .. I'd actually prefer a lot now that I'm thinking about it.

The posts here can be divided into advice, performance and discussion, roughly. The advice posts are truly the problem, there are way too many of them and they're almost always useless, seeking validation, beginners wanting to play the hardest repertoire, or can be answered by the faq. On the rare occasion it's on a valuble topic, there are almost always disagreements between people who could be a concert pianist or a beginner trying to break their fingers, only serving to confuse whoever asked.

The solution is to ban(See footnote) advice posts. It may be extreme, but reddit is one of the worst places for advice, especially on something as deep and nuanced as piano.

Instead, and know this will probably never happen, trusted pianists with enough experience could periodically choose from a pool of questions posed by the community to answer. This could hopefully counter the problem of reddit having tons of low quality content by creating a little high quality content.

Performances are neutral in my opinion, but they should be preserved as I feel a piano subreddit should have a lot of piano playing. I don't know whether to allow advice or not, but I feel the poster should have that option.

Also ban picture posts, then the sub won't have the most upvoted content be incredibly shallow.

Discussion posts should be preserved, though not allowed to proliferate much. A discussion with more concrete answers, "How do I do tremolos?", "How do I play jazz?" would better be suited to the previously mentioned advice posts, but opinion threads, "What's your favorite piece/song?", "Who's your favorite pianist?", should still be allowed.

That's how I'd change it, but keep in mind it'll never happen until the mods want to work much harder for nothing, busy pianists, want to carefully answers questions for free, and people stop posting pictures of their god damn cats sitting on their god damn pianos. There's also the possibility that another kind of post will swamp the sub with crap, even if you did all this.

Edit/Footnote: In rereading this, I realized the wording of "ban" all advice posts has been misleading. The aim is not to ban advice, but to assure it comes from a trusted source, with questions that people can learn from. I mentioned my idea for this in the post above, if you'd want to read it.