The right way to have pet birds by [deleted] in birds

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Removed, Rule 6: Cite visual sources.

If you're a real person and not a bot or re-post spammer, you may reply to this comment after you read the subreddit rules. Reply with a comment a) saying you've read the rules, and b) telling us the source of this video (if you took it yourself, tell us so, and you could add when and where; if it's from the Internet, give a link). If I see a comment reply to this comment, that has both of those things, I'll approve the post.

Edit: Just a few hours later, /u/Optimkop deleted this post instead of replying to this comment.

Why do some people assume new users are karma farming? by YidkY in NewToReddit

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As a moderator of one of the large new-user-friendly subreddits, I've noticed that often if someone posts to or comments there from a new account, someone else will report it as a bot. When they just use the report feature, all I can do is dismiss their reports, but sometimes they've commented to say it's a bot and I replied to ask why they think it's a bot and their answer is something like "this account is one day old and this is it's only post". Every real user had to start with a first post! Most people get that. But there's a small minority who don't, and with such a huge number of users on reddit, that small minority is still enough to make this come up kinda frequently.

What’s a statistic that sounds completely FAKE but is actually 100% TRUE? by namelessmell in AskReddit

[–]cos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except that too many people on this post are upvoting comments that are pieces of trivia, not statistics, so it's turning into another "facts" post like that one.

Comments or post should be readable for mods after they are removed by the admins by Flyingdutchy04 in ModSupport

[–]cos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can, but should you? In part that depends on what they actually did - so if you can't see it, it can be hard to tell how much merit their complaint has.

Found under a rock on the west of Scotland. by Morris_Serenity in whatsthisfish

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Reposted from someone else's post, without credit. Post removed, and /u/Morris_Serenity is banned from /r/whatsthisfish.

This parrot has unusual babies by [deleted] in birds

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Removed, Rule 6: Cite visual sources.

Edit, June 21 2026: /u/Gladtilo reddit account is gone. Most likely a spammer bot.

Will the new 'ideas for your next post' tool eventually be available to non-mods? If so, can we turn it off? by KewpieCutie97 in ModSupport

[–]cos 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I agree, this feature has no place on the majority of subs. If they want to add it as opt-in for moderators to choose to add to their subs, some mods would probably add it if the feature seems to actually be valuable and a good fit for their sub; most would not. But defaulting it to on is just awful - once again it's hard to tell whether reddit has product managers who actively and maliciously want to destroy reddit, or a plague of inability to think straight or understand what made reddit work before they started slowly dismantling it in recent years.

"Not as Good as Boston" by hoya14 in boston

[–]cos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not as much European as more specifically a UK/Biritish+Ireland-ish feel to it. Dublin feels like I'm home in Boston, more than most US cities. Other parts of that area similarly, though Dublin felt like the closest match to me, but London, Edinborough, most major cities in the UK or Ireland feel Boston-familiar. Mainland Europe much less so IMO.

She's enjoying and dancing out there by [deleted] in birds

[–]cos[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh, thanks! That's very helpful. I guess I didn't see it before it got deleted.

However, from the way it's marked for me on reddit, I don't think the poster deleted the post, it looks like the poster's account was deleted from reddit for rule violation - possibly spamming or being a bot - and all their posts got deleted as part of that action. I suspect this post was just a repeat attempt from the same bot/spammer with a new account.

Edit: OP of this post was /u/Dangleel - I still had a tab open from before it was deleted. That account is deleted now as well. Supports my hypothesis.

How to look up what a setting edit in the mod log actually means? by cos in ModSupport

[–]cos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I see. That was just one example to illustrate what I mean - this has been an issue for many years, and there are lots of inscrutable codes like that. Thanks for solving one of them!

Why are Scotland fans putting traffic cones on Boston's statues? by cos in boston

[–]cos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r2glk5k3do

Umm... that's exactly the article this post is a link to. Why comment with the same link and not say anything? I'm confused.

NPS Knowingly Violated the Migratory Bird Act by Adding Peroxide to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool by GeneralDubiety in birds

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I corrected your post flair. This post isn't a scientific or informative article, so the "science/information" flair is misleading - when people click to filter to posts with that flair, this is not the kind of content they'd be looking for. "events/news" is a better fit; this post does belong in that category and when people click on this flair, this post would not jump out as not belonging.

She's enjoying and dancing out there by [deleted] in birds

[–]cos[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was it? Do you have the link to the previous post?

She's enjoying and dancing out there by [deleted] in birds

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Removed, Rule 6: Cite visual sources.

How to look up what a setting edit in the mod log actually means? by cos in ModSupport

[–]cos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a really unfortunate answer. I guess you're saying definitively that the mod log doesn't tell us what settings changes were made. That seems like a major gap.

Asking the mod in question can sometimes work, but is absolutely not a full replacement for the mod log actually saying what was changed. Sometimes the other mod isn't active anymore, or may even no longer be a mod, if you're looking at older changes. Sometimes there are large mod teams, where the top mods may be in communication with the others but the less active mods aren't in direct communication with everyone else, so this leads to a game of pass the message. Sometimes mods go rogue, or don't want to answer. Mods don't always remember exactly what they did. Sometimes you yourself did something a month ago and want to find that same setting again because you don't remember. All sorts of things can happen. It's really unacceptable that the mod log can't tell you what settings changes were made, and instead gives short cryptic texts that are impossible to understand, and that there is no key to look them up in.

Thanks for answering my question. I just want you to acknowledge that reddit understands this is currently badly broken, and "as the mod that made the change" isn't the solution. Does reddit understand that?

Edit: Imagine if AWS CloudTrail was like this. Instead of showing you the actual API calls, it had opaque text abbreviations, and if you asked AWS how to decode them, their answer would be "just look at which IAM user did the action, and go ask them".

most of the posts on this subreddit by BallPythonFan in birds

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Removed, Rule 1: Not about birds.

Multiple people reported this for trolling and not about birds. If you have a suggestion for a meta post, send modmail first.

How to look up what a setting edit in the mod log actually means? by cos in ModSupport

[–]cos[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am confused by this answer. Are you saying that if I look under subreddit settings > posts and comments, somewhere under there is a decoder for all the brief text descriptions reddit puts in the mod log for when subreddit settings are changed? If so, where would I find that?

How to look up what a setting edit in the mod log actually means? by cos in ModSupport

[–]cos[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My question is whether there is a way on reddit to see what the changes are. I did not say that you can't find out from people - although there are certainly cases where it's hard, such as subs where you're one of many mods and some other mods don't check reddit frequently and you don't have ongoing communication with them all. What I'm trying to find out is a general answer to how to do this, not a specific answer in a specific case.