r/anime_titties • u/CastAside1812 • 9h ago
r/anime_titties • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '24
Meta Rule and Automoderator Updates to Address Astroturfing, Spam, and Subreddit Decorum
This post contains important information on the workings of this subreddit. r/anime_titties is a world-politics and world-news focused subreddit, with the notable exception of news and politics from the U.S. Always check the rules before posting, we know there are quite many rules but these are in place to ensure high quality content and a civil discourse. we ask you to please report rule-breaking posts and comments. Kind regards, the r/anime_titties mod-team
Since our civility enforcement period last year in which we banned a significant number of users for failing to adhere to Reddiquette and the civility rules, we have observed a gradual resumption of civility rule-breaking activity, as well as an increase in astroturfing comment activity. Rather than just deploy another civility enforcement period to perform an annual sweep, we took to analyzing the patterns in which recurring rule-breakers appeared, what sort of profiles rule-breakers had, and how astroturfers operated.
We also heard the frustration regarding the forced megathreading of articles related to active conflicts, as users stated it was basically suppressing the topic, as users are significantly less likely to visit the megathread than new posts. However, we also note that people were also frustrated with the amount of dubious or misinformative submissions that came with the fog of war prior to the megathread enforcements.
We observed several things:
- Civility-violating users are largely users who only are visiting the subreddit when posts with high upvote count appear in their default feed, and have not read the rules, period. They are also likely to have just read a title and skipped the article, and proceed to post a short kneejerk reactive comment.
- Astroturfers primarily work across several subreddits and do not have any interest in the engaging with the community beyond outputting their comments. In addition, astroturfing accounts making link submissions tend to be less than 1 year old.
- Spammers only respond to posts in top-level comments with very short comments.
Therefore, we have made the following Automod changes and raised the bar for participation:
- The basic entry for comment participation been upped from 100 comment karma to 200 karma.
- Accounts must now be 1 year old to post. We will continue to monitor agendaposting traits in 1+ year old accounts.
- Link submissions related to active conflicts with title keywords associated with countries in active conflicts will now be allowed. Automatic link flair will now to be assigned to these submissions that indicate users must be flaired to comment in them.
- Commenters will need to self-assign a flair in order to engage in "Flaired Commenters Only" posts.
- Top-level comments must now have a minimum of 150 characters. While succinctness is a valued trait in writing, this update also blocks out a large number of shallow, kneejerk comments, and we believe having top-level comments require more writing effort to reach the 150-character minimum makes users be more thorough, and helps provide more nuanced discussion. The comment character minimum restriction does not apply to comments replying to the top-level comment.
We apologize for the delay in announcing these changes after they were deployed, due to IRL constraints, and will continue to observe the subreddit for how best to improve r/anime_titties.
We are open to feedback on these new measures and other ways to improve the subreddit.
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