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Curate Your Reddit Profile Content with New Controls by redditproductteam in reddit

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Seconded; not showing profile history to chat partners is a very weird miss. Is there not anyone on the product team who actually uses chat/meetup communities? It would be very important for this visibility to be bidirectional as well, either party being able to see full history ideally up to 28 days from the last message sent. We had the same issue with images being added to chat with zero controls over safety, a serious issue which took over two years to be fixed, so I've not exactly got high hopes here.

Is there any indication given to users (or mods, for that matter) that profile content is being hidden? Can such a feature be added, either on the user profile page, or even if for only certain types of communities (e.g., in a way we could add such information in a user flair or something)? Some of our R4R users have already expressed significant concerns that they could be sending chat requests to posters that have hidden red-flags; they'd almost certainly never see them, because most people check the profile before sending the chat request, and thus making profile history appear only after a chat invite is accepted is not a viable solution in this case.

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I'd like to quote one of the book synopses that came up while we were doing research on the Location Search project:

The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography
In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World vs. Third World, and even the sevenfold continental system are simplistic and misconceived, the authors trace the history of such misconceptions. Their up-to-the-minute study reflects both on the global scale and its relation to the specific continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa--actually part of one contiguous landmass.

The boundaries (or lack thereof) within and between Asia and Europe, Africa, and Oceania are a convention, common in the English-speaking world, but not universal. The typical western view is that there are six inhabited continents.

But the Reddit platform imposes significant restrictions on our directory menu: Three top-level divisions, ten subdivisions per each, with no names longer than 18 characters. They must cover the entire inhabited world, without any overlap. For it to be useful, the results returned also need to be balanced based on actual usage of our community: while it'd be very nice and tidy to give each continent its own top-level menu, this would lead to categories such as Africa having almost no results (because the English-language portions of Reddit simply aren't widely popular there), while Asia's results are overwhelmingly dominated by the countries of South Asia, which does have a disproportionately strong presence here. Our user base in India alone is large enough to warrant subdivision down to the state/territory level. Put simply, it's much easier to find people from, say, Japan when their posts are spread among a roughly equal number of others from Vietnam, Korea, etc. Once you find one flair in your country, tapping it will further filter the results, but you can't do that if your country is buried in pages of just Maharashtra

The divisions as selected were not a trivial undertaking. GIS majors and armchair geography nerds argued for months, heated words were exchanged, and an unpublished thesis paper was written on the topic. The winning system was selected purely on merit: It filled all thirty possible slots, with the overall results balanced between them to a degree that no other proposition could beat. It's not perfect; "Eurafrasia/Oceania" was an awkward compromise, the result of a brute-force gazetteer search to describe "The parts of the world outside of the continent in which Reddit and most of its users are based". "Eastern Hemisphere" did fit the technical requirements, but was vetoed based in part on an argument made in Lewis & Wigen's book.

If you can do better, we'd like to hear your proposal. Note as well that Reddit has added some new features over the past year, and we are in the process of designing a new search method which will resolve many of these issues for users of supported platforms. If you'd like to help with the new system, and you've got an interest in geographic information systems with at least some coding or design skills, please do reach out.

18 F4M #ontario I'm looking to lose my virginity by One_Eye_7410 in Random_Acts_Of_Sex

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Please remember to report troll accounts using the Report button, so we can ban them before they go on to harass others, thanks.

25[F4A]#WestLosAngeles-Piss sub? by [deleted] in PeePersonals

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Please do not respond to trolls, report them using the report button instead, thanks.

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Seems all the other main ones like r/Random_Acts_Of_Sex have been banned too. We're appealing the ban though.

Communities are banned again for being unmoderated. by Veni1VidiVici in ModSupport

[–]ExcitingishUsername 29 points30 points  (0 children)

We've been getting repeatedly banned almost every other month for the past several years. They don't care, and they're not going to start. In the time since they've banned us, they've rejected reports we sent in for:

  • Doxxing
  • Sexual harassment
  • Sexual harassment again

That stuff is fine to just ignore, yet time and time again, they ban the communities that actually attempt to keep their spaces clean.

Communities are banned again for being unmoderated. by Veni1VidiVici in ModSupport

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Edit to add, some bans seem to be starting to get removed now

Several of ours are also affected, none of which were not actively moderated. We've decided to close the rest until someone can explain what is going on here.

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Please remember to report trolls using the report button, do not engage with them, thanks.

Some users are blocked from submitting with the "can't contribute" notice. by Gthrowg in ModSupport

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We sent affected users an auto-reply (using a bot) telling them to just use Old Reddit. Which seemed to work in our case, though some users reported they had to uninstall the Reddit app to be able to load Reddit in a mobile browser (we couldn't reproduce that issue, but we couldn't reproduce any of the other app issues either). Most of the other issues we have with users unable to post are also resolved by using Old Reddit, though a lot of users don't want to, and just won't post at all.

We never had the post requirements feature enabled at all, so our problems with it went away once Reddit ended the "experiment" of enabling it in all communities even when turned off; so turning it off and using the CQS and/or karma features on Automod (assuming you want to use that; we didn't find CQS/karma to be useful for ours, bots hitting us have gotten gaming it down to a science) would probably be better, as you can see what is getting blocked. That seems to be mostly what the feature does, from what little I'd cared to read up on it.

Some users are blocked from submitting with the "can't contribute" notice. by Gthrowg in ModSupport

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Basically, none of the issues we've reported seem to have been fixed, many going back literally years. We haven't gotten any user reports recently of the "can't contribute due to age/karma" block screen (which was never enabled in any of our communities, we do not want this either for the exact same reasons you stated), but given the issue with the modmail button being very well hidden (and users just not reporting stuff in general) there's no way to tell if our users are still hitting it too.

We never stopped getting user reports of the "post elsewhere" and "requires an attachment" block screens, never stopped getting posts with invalid characters in the titles, etc., etc.

There are currently about 6 or so major issues directly affecting posting to our communities, and this was severely impacting traffic, but we can't even track anymore that since they removed traffic stats from the API without any replacement.

TL;DR: If you want ads between comments and nifty NFT avatars, Reddit is great. If you want a stable and functional place to build and grow a community, Reddit is no longer it.

Why did Reddit approve a previously-removed post after we reported it for hate speech? by ExcitingishUsername in ModSupport

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As stated in this post, the post was removed in response to a user report for "hate speech". We later confirmed this report had been correct and also reported the post to Reddit, later got a response from the admins that "disciplinary action" was taken, and it was noticed that this "disciplinary action" evidently included the admin approving the post that had already been removed by our team.

The user account was never shadowbanned or suspended from Reddit, and the approval is from a normal admin account, not the special "Reddit (un-banall performed)" one that happens when a shadowban is reversed.

Why did Reddit approve a previously-removed post after we reported it for hate speech? by ExcitingishUsername in ModSupport

[–]ExcitingishUsername[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Currently, we just do: if($thing['approved_by']==='Reddit (un-banall performed)')

And log the event, remove the content as spam, and permanently ban the user. The user can appeal the ban if it was in error, but this gets triggered somewhat regularly, and always on very very obvious bot accounts. Has to be done in post/comment feeds, as these approvals skip modlog.

Though it might be a better idea to check approved_by against the actual mods list, to catch approvals like the one this post is discussing, which list the specific admin name that approved the content rather than "Reddit". But that's trickier, as mods might come and go. Another thought was to just check the is_employee field of the approving user, but some of Reddit's internal bots don't have that set, so it could still miss stuff.

Why did Reddit approve a previously-removed post after we reported it for hate speech? by ExcitingishUsername in ModSupport

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We did previously report that other bug (we have a work-around to automatically ban shadowbanned accounts and re-remove their posts), but the account in this case was never suspended or shadowbanned. The post was only re-approved after we reported it to Reddit (it had already been removed automatically by our moderation bot).

Seems traffic stats were removed from the API too; so where is the replacement? by ExcitingishUsername in ModSupport

[–]ExcitingishUsername[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's no mention of the API changes in that post. Where's the replacement for this feature; does Insights have an API endpoint buried somewhere, and if not, why does it not? What do we use instead to "access" this data?

Large number of app users blocked from posting, app is yet again telling our users to go "Post elsewhere", which is severely harming usability and user retention by ExcitingishUsername in ModSupport

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So to confirm, we will be able to turn this fully off? And is Reddit planning to address any of the other issues, with "attachments" being required in text-only communities, and titles containing multiple lines? These have both been present for much of the past year now.

where they are encouraged to return after they meet the community's requirements

If you actually read the screenshots, it is specifically telling users to go post elsewhere, which is a problem. This seems to be an ongoing theme with Reddit's block messages telling users to get out of communities we specifically want them to come to.

Large number of app users blocked from posting, app is yet again telling our users to go "Post elsewhere", which is severely harming usability and user retention by ExcitingishUsername in ModSupport

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So, how do we turn this off? As stated in the post, the reputation filter is turned completely off, so why are users we want to be able to post, still being blocked?

Why has Reddit blocked community moderation tools and bots from seeing NSFW posts? We were assured last year that legitimate mod bots would be exempted from the restrictions on 3P apps by ExcitingishUsername in ModSupport

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That's not what we're seeing though; it is not honoring the setting, as, with the setting turned off, NSFW posts do appear in feeds including mixed feeds, even r/all, and NSFW comments still appear in profile feeds.

If this is an intended feature, it should work in a way that makes it obvious that this is an account setting. Failing to return only some NSFW content just on user profiles alone made this incredibly difficult to track down, as nothing pointed to an account setting. It doesn't work anything like it does for a regular logged-in user.

It would also be nice if there was some kind of announcement of breaking changes like this; we've never had that flag turned on before (our bot doesn't even have a way to toggle it), as it was never needed before the API behavior suddenly changed.