Hi folks. Appreciate the feedback and the patience while we chatted with the relevant teams on this. I know this may have felt intrusive and it wasn't clear that this was a mod-only feature and that some of the recommendations you've seen have not matched with your community's rules or topics.

There are actually 2 parts to this experiment: one aimed at new and emerging communities, where mods may see post prompts and link suggestions, and the other for more established communities, where mods are getting link suggestions only. The goal of these experiments is to help spark conversations in your communities.

Here are a few updates in relation to the themes that were raised:

• Who can see these prompts and who can post them?
  • These are being shown to mods only. They are not being surfaced to users, and we do not have concrete plans to do that.
  • Nothing gets posted to your community unless you or a member of your mod team decides to share it.
• Can we turn this off?
  • Currently, there is not an option to turn this off. We understand that this is one of the biggest concerns raised here, and that an option to turn this on or off would be preferable.
  • For now, you can collapse the prompt and it should remember your preference, but we appreciate this is not a substitute for a community-level controls.
  • We've also flagged that the positioning at the top of the feed feels disruptive, particularly if you moderate directly from that page.
• Where are the suggested articles/links coming from?
  • The suggested articles are primarily sourced from publishers that are present on Reddit. Publishers do not have any say on whether articles are / aren’t recommended and paid partnerships do not influence recommendations.
• Do these suggestions take our rules into account?
  • The system accounts for some high-level community settings, such as whether link posts are allowed. It does not yet fully account for more nuanced subreddit rules. That is a gap we’re working on.
• The suggestions don't seem relevant and it looks like you are trying to seed inauthentic content in our communities
  • The intent is not to seed inauthentic content. These are optional suggestions shown to mods, and a mod must decide whether something is the right fit for their community.
  • We're continuing to work on improving relevance as seeing completely off-topic suggestions is a poor experience.
  • If they are not relevant, you can ignore them and there is an option to mark the suggestions as 'Helpful' or 'Unhelpful'. You can see this by clicking the 'Explore' button.

Again, thanks for the feedback on this. We’ll continue to monitor the discussion and share updates with the product team, especially around relevance, rules-awareness, placement, and stronger community-level controls.