Did you ever have that feeling on reddit of “I better word my post just right, otherwise AutoMod will take it down”? Some subs had such strict auto moderating that it was a crap shoot to post something. Not so here. I know there’s value in moderation, and I’m sure Lemmy/kbin/etc. will add more of it with time. But, for now, it was just nice to not be nervous when I was submitting a post here.
Some subs on Reddit are ridiculously complex to post in. It put me off posting things that I thought were interesting so many times.
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.
@DeathWearsANecktie aka r/showerthoughts
@FrostBolt
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…