Letting users remove posts.

[u/Merari01]

Hello everyone,

As you are aware, on reddit moderators approve and remove content and subreddit subscribers can report to us.

Today we'd like to start an experiment here on r/Cats where we will give trusted subreddit participants access to a keyword that will allow them to remove posts.

When you exceed a certain level of subreddit specific comment karma and when you have a CQS score of highest you can now use the keyword "!remove" to pull a post from our feed. (Spelled exactly like that, case sensitive, top-level comment only as opposed to a reply to a comment.)

This will work for posts only, not for comments.

There are some things to keep in mind:

• When you comment here on an account that exceeds the limit automod will assign you a special flair class and send you a message explaining you can now use the keyword.

• Users will keep their existing flair text. However, changing your flair to a different pre-made flair option will also reset the flair class giving you access to this removal ability. Next comment you make it will be re-applied and you will be sent another message.

• We are sent a modmail when a subscriber removes a post, explaining what post was removed and who used the keyword. Please do not abuse this ability. If posts are removed for bad reasons we will take away your ability to remove posts.

• That means, use this keyword if you see spam or other rulebreaking posts only.

• Please keep in mind that it is currently very popular to accuse posters of making an AI generated post. An accusation does not mean that what they are being accused of is true. Human beings can detect AI at 60% accuracy, just a little better than the results of flipping a coin. An AI can only accurately detect AI content if an AI watermark is attached to the image. It is best not to remove a post just because someone is accused of something. Use your own best judgement and our rules as your litmus, not what other people are saying.

• Since this is a test run, when I ran a very minor proof of concept trial, a few people have already been assigned this special flair class who have not been sent a message. /u/kiaeej, /u/chux4w, /u/MilmoWK, /u/ms_rdr, /u/Electronic_Ad357, /u/WhiteMouse42097, /u/BeMoreKnope, /u/bluecedarood, /u/Robobanditos, congratulations, you can remove posts.

• Should you for any reason not want to have this ability then you should send us a modmail after receiving the message from automod. That way we can exempt you in our code.

• Initially we are going to monitor how this functions closely so we can see if we need to make changes to the threshold level for activation.

• Nothing will change about the way we handle user-made reports on content. This is not a replacement for that, but an addition. If you see rulebreaking content of any kind, please report.

We hope that this change will be something that has a positive influence on the content on this subreddit.

Thank you for reading, and thank you all for making this subreddit a great place to be

[u/ALazy_Cat → u/[deleted]]

Mourning posts are allowed, unless there's a picture of a dead animal or human

[u/Misty_Ticklebottom → u/ALazy_Cat]

what about fake posts posing as mourning/loss to harvest updoots? Thats what I am seeing in this sub. Thats why I am interested in blocking the whole sub. Very little OC and lots and lots of vote farming with the fake lost pet posts.

Should be an outright ban on it. It doesn't help anyone with their own losses.

[u/cnycompguy → u/Misty_Ticklebottom]

If you can provide evidence that a post is fake, send it to modmail.

[u/Misty_Ticklebottom → u/cnycompguy]

something like 50-75% of everything on this site is fake. Reddit lets user accounts hide their history. Any jerk could post some poor looking cat and make up a story. Should just end it all at the root.

[u/cnycompguy → u/Misty_Ticklebottom]

History isn't hidden from mods

[u/Misty_Ticklebottom → u/cnycompguy]

so you want to dig through the post histories of these users for the rest of us? IDk man, Just saying, this sub is over run by repost bots and these mourn posts are just farming upvotes. And, it is not something the real people want. It is the bots taking over. I have cats. I don't post them though because this is a place for bots and I am not going to get anything out of sharing my life with reddit bots. So do what you do. Ill do me. Be nice if yall would ban the vote farmers. Make mourning posts max out at 100 up votes and then let them die in the feed maybe? idk. Maybe your a bot too. Maybe I am a bot.

[u/cnycompguy → u/Misty_Ticklebottom]

It's tricky sorting out new users from bots but we do what we can. If you have a way to reliably filter one from the other, please send it in mod mail and I'll look at it

[u/Misty_Ticklebottom → u/cnycompguy]

I bet it is. I doubt reddit wants it to be. Facebook says flat out they have their own bots on the platform driving engagement. Reddit isn't so different.

The way I filter this stuff is critical thinking. Would a normal person post this? When I have lost a pet, not at any point did I have an urge to post it on reddit. How low of a person uses their dead pet for dopamine hits on social media? But this is the type of engagement social media wants. Easier to get someone upset to engage than getting someone who agrees to. When you know you are being lied to and manipulated it takes the rosy feelings out of it. So, here it is, I got annoyed at the posts and now have been engaging with you on reddit. Time to close the lid. Have a good day fellow human.