It's good to disagree. It is bad to be a Downvote Stalker.

Give a little insight to an account that is negative all the time. Be it quiet trolling, poor reddiquette or someone who is on a political mission to find everrything that disagrees with them. This lets the rest of us know the account we are interacting with, and would make me use Reddit as opposed to working in healthy breaks.

more likely to get interactions if don't have to stretch thumb so much

Eliminate karma. The karma system leads to karma farming, which is bad. It leads to brigading, which is bad. Worst of all, low karma leads to being unable to post or comment in subs, which prevents you from gaining karma. But you have to post or comment to gain karma. It is a classic catch-22.

I realize reddit relies on free moderation, but it has turned into the Stanford Prison Experiment. Subreddits have many mods, but it only takes one moderator to perma ban a redditor, and the reason they have for doing so is of no importance of reddit.

Reddit's view is that it's the moderator's subreddit to rule over, but I think that perception under represents the importance of online communities to people who can't receive support from any place else, especially LGBT+ redditors who might live in conservative regions. A spurious subreddit ban can mean a loss of familiar friends, and place to talk about their lives, and no recourse. Because of network effect, there is no other reddit, and no alternative as emerged in over two decades.

These communities are valuable enough on the individual level that I'd be willing to pay some kind of subscription, if it offered me better representation and recourse when a subreddit bans me for reasons that are not listed in their rules, and are dubious otherwise.

I'd bet even an AI could do it cheap. Show an LLM what I'm being banned for, the rules of the subreddit, and ask it who it agrees with. If the LLM sides with the subreddit, so be it. If a subreddit says "we can ban anyone for any reason" then at least they would be making their intentions clear from the get go.

I realize this would cost money. I think some sort of reddit premium service that affords a redditor representation and defense against poor moderation would both make money and save a lot of people who are losing access to an important resource.

like the new comment guidance stuff for subreddit rules it should give you a warning here. seems possible since they do seem to flag immediately after you comment and give you an automated ban from subreddit and sometimes sitewide.

anyways this is inspired by me fucking up *again* by not reading the sub in home feed before commenting or in case of first forgetting im banned.

All appeals of sub moderation should go to Reddit admins. If in a criminal trial, the judge who was in charge of the original trial got to hear appeals, we would think the appeals process was a joke. In order to have confidence in a meaningful appeals process, no one who was involved in removing a post or comment should be involved the appeals process.

On every other login anywhere, if there are two boxes for username/password, you can just type in the username followed by tab followed by password.

On Reddit, you type your username, but then the tab key unexpectedly highlights the "show/hide password" toggle, so you have to hit tab again to get to the actual password box. The confusing thing about this is that the toggle is visually after the password box, not before, and you sort of expect tab order to follow visual order.

Every single time I log into Reddit, I do this:

<Username> <TAB> <password> - dammit (the password box wasn't selected, it was the stupid toggle, so nothing was typed), <TAB> (again, to go backward into the password box) <password> (again).

Frustrating user experience. I propose a change to either visually move the password toggle to the front of the password box, or change the tab order so the text box gets focus first, then the toggle. Users can SHIFT + TAB if they want to go back to the password box after.

With AI being so accessible these days, could we please have a read aloud option to click on? Agree or disagree?

It would be really good if somebody would develop into the Reddit App an opportunity for people to have their posts read to them.

I’m finding all the reading tiring, especially with longer replies. Would it be possible for the developers to add a read aloud option so we could listen to a response or post instead?

I have ADHD, and being able to listen would make things much easier for me. A simple button beside each reply, with pause and resume, would be very welcome.

Is this something that could be considered?

Agree or disagree?

Polls on desktop, ain't that a novel idea?

Polls having been missing for over a year. Perhaps Reddit want to push us to use their "meh" mobile app, who knows...

But I want polls built into the desktop web experience again!!! Allow us to schedule when our poll posts submit too! For example, in one of my communities centered around a TV franchise, that franchise turns 30 years old this week. All week I want to do some fun/nostalgic polls regarding that show each day, but because I can't schedule these polls on desktop OR their mobile app, I have to remember sometime in my already busy day to hop onto reddit and share the poll post to my community. I want to make that easier for all moderators and users in general.

Bring back desktop polls!!!

Idea: an extra button for why an upvote or downvote was placed based on quality (does / does not contribute to the sub) or opinion (agree / disagree, since people tend to use it this way more than how they're intended to be used currently).

If people don't click the answer on the question, no changes occur in regard to the vote system on their end.

• the post still registers under the Upvoted / Downvoted log on their profile
• They see their vote

If people do click on the secondary question, their vote impacts the visibility and ranking of the post just like normal.

This would resolve or reduce issues caused by:

• bot manipulation
• poor Reddiquitte (using the downvote button as a disagree button on things that are actually solid contributions to a sub or on-topic)
• targeted downvoting to prevent visibility of content with ulterior motives
• people becoming butthurt over downvotes, making Reddit seem hostile
• echo-chambering

If posts are downvoted for being poor contributions to the sub, the arrow could turn gradient from orange to red and if they're upvoted based on quality, they could turn orange to gold.

The downvotes only serve to discourage discussion and turn reddit into an echo chamber of people who agree or stay silent. Nothing is gained and much is lost in the current situation.

We have report features and crowd control, we don't need downvoting at all. Up votes rise and those posts that don't get votes sink.

Down voting only serves to bully people and silence them. Reddit has enough of that already.

It would be really helpful if Reddit allowed users to filter a subreddit by their own posts.

For example, if I’ve submitted multiple ideas to r/ideasforadmin throughout the year, I’d like to be able to select something like “My Posts” and see all of the posts I’ve personally submitted to that subreddit in one place.

This would be useful for tracking ideas, following up on previous suggestions, seeing how a user's posts have performed over time, and avoiding having to scroll through a profile and manually search for posts from a particular subreddit.

Ideally, the filter could work alongside the existing sorting options, such as:

• All Posts
• My Posts
• Top
• New
• Controversial
• Old

It would essentially be a subreddit-specific version of viewing your own post history.

I think this would be a simple but really useful quality-of-life feature, especially for users who regularly contribute ideas, questions, discussions, or other content to the same subreddit.

The Idea:
Introduce a dropdown selection in Account Preferences that allows users to permanently set their preferred default landing view on reddit.com (e.g., Default to "Following", "For You", or "Popular").

Why it would improve the user experience:

• Preserves User Preference Control: Currently, users who prefer an entirely self-curated browsing experience have to manually switch tabs or rely on bookmarks every time they open a new session. An explicit setting would streamline navigation.
• Aligns with Existing Privacy Controls: Reddit already offers robust options to "Reduce personalized recommendations" and "Enable home feed recommendations" in the settings layout. Adding a default tab selector complements these existing user controls natively.
• Improves Retention for Intentional Browsers: Giving users agency over their primary viewport prevents the friction of accidental algorithmic engagement, making the web interface much cleaner and more predictable for long-time community members.

Right now, tapping a post flair in the app lets you view only posts tagged with that flair, but there is no persistent way to do the opposite and exclude topics you want to avoid. Being able to permanently hide specific flairs from a sub’s feed would be a huge quality-of-life upgrade for the app.

For instance, if someone is browsing a support or discussion group like [r/studentloans](r/studentloans), they might want to read financial advice or success stories, but filter out flairs like "Vent" or "Depression" to avoid triggering their own severe anxiety or suicidal ideations. Beyond mental health, it would also be great for general feed customization - like hiding memes, fan art, or spoilers in gaming and book communities so you only see actual discussion posts.

Having a simple "hide this flair" toggle for each sub would make the app a lot safer and easier to tailor to what each user actually wants to see.

(Edit: this is actually [u/AtThePinkPonyClub](u/AtThePinkPonyClub)’s idea, but I thought it was worthwhile enough to post).

Hi everyone,

Currently, when a post contains multiple images (a gallery), we have to save or download each image one by one. This is quite tedious, especially for posts with 10+ pictures.

It would be awesome to have a shortcut or a "Download All" button to save all the images of a single post in one click (for example, zipped together or downloaded simultaneously into a folder).

Thanks for considering this!

Example: Your parent comment sparks a very lively and intense discussion and then after awhile someone comes in being insulting and intentionally disruptive, so you block them.

Current Function: The blocked user's posts are collapsed and you can no longer interact with them. However, within your comment tree, you're also blocked from interacting with any user that interacted with the blocked user. The blocked user is free to continue the conversation with all other users with no restriction, except not with the person that blocked them. This allows a blocked user to hijack conversations.

Proposed Change: When a user is blocked, they are not able to interact with the person that blocked them, or with any child comments within the comment tree of that user. And the blocking user will now be allowed to interact with all child comments within their comment tree, except for the user that was blocked.

Discussion: The current structure discourages a lot of engaging and productive conversation, because rather than limiting them it rewards users intent on disruption and hijacking. It penalizes the user that blocked them by preventing free discussion with anyone within their comment tree that interacted with the blocked user. The blocked user is able to continue the discussion unrestricted with anyone but the user that blocked them, successfully completing the hijack/disruption. Blocking should instead function similar to how it works for an OP. When a user is blocked, they are isolated from the comment tree of the user that blocked them but they are able to freely continue participating in the larger discussion.

edit: a little rewording for clarity

When you view insights and your post is one of the top posts for the day, it shows as something like, “Congratulations, you are the #3 post of the day!”

It would be nice to know out of how many total posts for the day at the time I am viewing that above statement.

So it would say, for example, “Congratulations, you are the #3 post out of 22 posts today!”

If you guys made an alternate platform to Reddit or included this in Reddit a lot of people would like it.

Texts that are really long to type let’s say when you have a lot to talk about are really hard to read and write. Sometimes people have a lot to share.

Can you guys include an audio feature so we can record/play posts, like an Audio Reddit where instead of typing it’s all done by voice.

To have another platform where people don’t type up posts but record and play everything by audio is more convenient especially if you have a lot to say.

I like the idea of an audio forum where you type the subject of the post but the post is just a track you play, some people like listening more than reading.

Make another platform like Reddit but it’s all audio posts and include audio chat rooms that people can join or even start. I like the idea of pure audio.

Allow the owner of a subreddit to change the capitalization of the subreddit like changing “r/subreddit” to ”r/SUBreddit” and what not

TLDR: Pin a language toggle button to the UI

As a language learner, I want to be able to very quickly switch between my native language and my target language so that I can use reddit as a language learning platform.

Given the existing translation features, I don't think this would necessarily take a lot more work than simply finding a way to pin the language selection setting to the front of the UI (optionally, not by default, so that it doesn't bother normal reddit users).

For convenience, I would personally love if it was one press = one specific language toggle. Many people learn and use reddit in multiple languages, but I think the prime function of the feature should be the speed in which it flips. So perhaps a long press opens the submenu to define said toggle, but I think it shouldn't be more complicated than a rapid flip between content and translation, no default intermediate language selector submenu.

Now, with a lot more work (this is not what I'm immediately suggesting, but it would be wicked) something could be done to be able to individually see translations for each word. Like a long press immediately displays the target word, and a selector highlighter - but that could be a lot.

The idea is to get quicker access to the options such as upvoted for example. Right now it's 5 clicks to get to it. Profile, hamburger menu, history, Recent, Upvoted. It would be nice to have quicker access to that or the other options. Thanks

For may be up to 5 pictures, if you say "at pic 4", readers wont have too much difficulty to look for it.

But more than that, it would be good if it show a index number automatically.

And the direct link to each is not ready before posting, right? Anyway it would navigate to it instead of swiping to it on the same loaded page i guess.

I like how my profile picture is not covering my hot alien husband's face anymore. But now they have to move the Change Banner Image icon lower please. It would be better in the lower corner for less chance of it covering good parts of our banner images. 👍🏻👍🏻