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I moderate a reddit community with ~200k subscribers, and I really wish I could disable downvoting. Automod takes care of most posts that violate our community
by robbyking 5y ago
I moderate a reddit community with ~200k subscribers, and I really wish I could disable downvoting. Automod takes care of most posts that violate our community rules, and I usually catch the ones that slip past within an hour or so.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, quality posts are almost always downvoted immediately. (I assume it's by self-promoters hoping that it will cause their content to rise in the rankings.)
Hiding posts scores has helped with bandwagoning, but I wish the two options were "upvote" and "report to mods."
- FpUser 5y ago>"...upvote and report to mods." This to me seems like the best approach.
- mjevans 5y agoFurther: A) It would be nice if the mods had a way to flag the post to make it require additional work to see on most / default clients. B) If multiple mods sign off on a given post being a poor match for constructive discourse that is when most clients wouldn't even display the existence without a special viewing mode or preference. (This assumes an append / write-only forum.) C) For all USERS, it would be nice if a special type of reply allowed for a post to be a "contrasting viewpoint", which might get displayed at the same node-level as the post being replied to, as part of a package of tightly related views on a topic.