Some subs on Reddit are ridiculously complex to post in. It put me off posting things that I thought were interesting so many times.
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I've used that mechanism as a moderator intentionally.
Some subs just get a lot of low effort, low quality posts, by setting certain automated rules, you can filter out people that don't read any submission instructions. In practice those are nearly always low effort.
A simple example is "set post flair to X before clicking on submit" and if they don't do that, just autoremove the post and tell them why and to contact the mods if they disagree.
Anyone that cares will delete and resubmit correctly. Anyone that doesn't really care will move on to something else.
Truegaming was like that: you had to make a post that fostered a discussion...but you couldn't frame it in any was as something that could possibly be asking readers a question, or imply a demand for reader input.
So, you had to write something that people would reply to and not reply to at the same time...
The bots are incoming imminently. Which subs will use them, is less certain. Obviously beehaw will be like a straitjacket, but i think anywhere else should be ok
This, to me, is the really cool thing!
Yeah.. I remember posting multiple times on some subs EVERY time I wanted to post because I thought I understood the rules.. I mostly comment nowadays because of it tbh! Posting anxiety is a solid way to put it
I definitely gave up on many subs over the years because apparently I couldn’t figure out how to post just the right way to not get auto-moderated. Can’t use X-word, or post included a link or whatever. Too many rules, and I gave up.
It's tiring reading something written by someone (or spoken esp) where they hedge and lawyer speak around their post/point.
It could be related.
I never had posting anxiety because I stuck mostly to small subs but I despised how automod could just do that. That said, it would be cool if we had a (smaller) automod here, before things get out of hand. We don't need bots and trolls to ruin everything.
Fk AutoMod. There were some subreddits I actually couldn't post, even though I wanted to (League of Legends being one example).
I've made https://kbin.social/m/lolesports if you want to discuss all things League of Legends esports! This includes fantasy (no betting), fanart (no NSFW), post-game match discussion, roster news, really anything!
It started to get really overdone on the moderation side for sure.
Yeah posting is like walking on eggshells. Too many rules that aren’t always obvious/easy to find. Or that time I got auto banned from r/news for responding to someone on r/conservative with my liberal perspective…
A huge and important sub like r/news really shouldn't be banning people for those reasons. Not defending conservatives, but even they should at least be able to participate in the default news sub. This has big "go back to your echo chamber where you belong, how dare you broaden your perspective, heathen" vibes.
It gets harder when you realize that an awful lot of conservatives (well, in the US at least) literally tie their personality to being bigoted. They simply can't not say offensive things. Even if it's completely irrelevant, they gotta slide something in somehow.
(Then again, as Mastodon has shown, there's the tenderfolk on the other side, but at least they're a pretty small group and don't make too much noise overall.)
Yup, was at a party last night and of course someone had to mention the holiday in the US tomorrow (Juneteenth) with "A most ridiculous excuse for a holiday, but that's another discussion" right in the middle of a harmless conversation. Like he just had to say it.
I remember in some communities when I was posting where I hadn’t submitted a new post before (I commented much more than posted), going back and forth to the rules over and over again to make sure I didn’t miss something, only to have my post removed by auto mod or a regular mod anyway, for not following some rule that wasn’t in the list of rules.
I got used to not caring about downvotes on comments much, and to not caring about hostile replies, but not the new post “did I somehow violate a rule that wasn’t in the list?” anxiety. I will not miss that at all.
(To be clear, I’m not anti-moderation or anti-mod at all, this is limited to this specific situation, which happened more often than you’d think, sadly.)
Absolutely. I got tired of some subs because of being unable to even talk about things they decided were immoral or wrong.
I would definitely agree that posting on reddit was difficult.
By default I feel like most posts were handled in a, remove first, ask questions later fashion.
Commenting was a bit better but there were a lot of set opinions and/or blatant misinformation.
Comment and post anxiety still exist for me here, and it probably won't change for a king time.
I wasn't posting but I commented a lot. I can't say I had any anxiety regarding commenting.
I had 105k comment karma so I must've been used to it at least, right?
Glad I'm not the only one noticing this! Didn't realize how much it had affected me. It took me days to dip my toes in when I came here, and I still felt that 'twitch' waiting for the automod to slap my post down, or feeling the insta-flames or downvote parade in some of the big subs.
I barely created posts on Reddit. Sometimes automod was a real pain in my ass, not gonna lie, but only in few specific subreddits. Although it's true that the mood here is more friendly to create posts and/or comment in them. I don't feel myself questioned, despised or attacked by others.
I also really, really like the ability to microblog at a magazine. A whole tab just for the casual, quick, less thought out posts that would make people sneer in disgust and smash the downvote button for having wasted their time on reddit. Probably with a "cool story bro" or "sir this is a wendy's" on the way past. I feel a lot freer to just engage without worry here.
Though I find I'm hesitant to use this feature on communities that aren't hosted on kbin (e.g. lemmy), knowing they'll probably just see it as a regular post and have exactly the reaction above.
What I'm probably going to struggle the most with is getting half-way through a post or comment before thinking, "eh, no one's going to read this anyway," and then deleting it. People seem much more inclined to engage on the various Fediverse platforms than I'm used to.
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