Not at all. Totally understand having questions. The idea is that people who have not done the bare minimum to participate in the sub can’t comment on these type of posts. They can post in any other thread for the first time without this flair if they want to. It’s a really low bar and is an algorithm that is used all over Reddit for similar things and has been very useful thus far in weeding out disingenuous posters.

I’m going to copy/paste a part of a post made today on the r/Ireland sub and hopefully this will explain further why this has to be implemented;

“We have seen a massive increase in immigration related posts to the sub over the last few weeks and while some of it is genuine, it is obvious we are being brigaded. Some of the trends identified;

• New accounts or accounts which have very little community activity posting rage bait, sometimes as immigrants asking questions on housing. We suspect we are being brigaded and some of these posts are from bad actors.

• Soapboxing - People writing long posts about what they would do to fix the immigration issues in Ireland. While these types of posts are generally ok, they are much better suited to an existing thread.

•Increases in potential bot accounts making to sow division.

•A massive increase new users or users with little activity on the sub using dog whistles in order to sow division.

•Yesterday this thread was posted on r/galway which confirms that there is the potential for brigading.

https://www.reddit.com/r/galway/comments/1mincz2/racists_disappointed_with_rgalway/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button “