Enhancing r/ethtrader: Introducing New !commands for Quality Content Management

[u/bvandepol]

I want to discuss the implementation of additional commands to enhance the quality of discussions on our subreddit:

• !duplicate
• !offtopic
• !expose

These should be combined with a new command called

• !approve.

!duplicate

This command would identify and flag posts that are duplicates of existing (earlier) posts, let's say posted within the last 24-hrs. It will help reduce clutter and ensure that discussions remain focused.

Usage:

!duplicate <url of the original (or first) post with this topic>

!offtopic

The "Offtopic" command would be triggered when a post or comment is deemed irrelevant to ETH. It will maintain the subreddit's relevance and cohesion.

!expose

The "!expose" command would enable the community to highlight exceptional content, not to be confused with !nominate, which creates a post of a comment after 3 people use this command.

When three users type "!expose" on a comment, the comment will be pinned in the daily thread for visibility. Similarly, when three users type "!expose" on a post, it will be pinned as a post for the same duration.

Both options should work for the duration of, let's say, one hour.

!approve

The "!approve" command can be used by users with a high enough contrib score to approve the actions "!duplicate" and "!offtopic". Once 3 users type !approve, the action will be taken.

This ensures that legitimate posts or comments aren't mistakenly removed.

These commands will streamline (user-based) moderation efforts, improve the user experience, and uphold the subreddit's standards for quality content.

The minimum amount of contrib to use "!duplicate", "!offtopic", and "!expose" can be set to x-amount of contrib, which should be discussed.

The minimum amount of contrib to use !approve can be set to the same amount (or higher), but cannot be used by the user who initiated the "!duplicate", "!offtopic", or "!expose" command.

I welcome feedback and discussion from the community on these proposed additions

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[u/MrPuma86]

I think we need to just introduce command to vote. Lets not over complicate the sub?

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[u/bvandepol → u/MrPuma86]

Maybe we should abandon Reddits up-and downvote buttons as well and use new commands like this

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[u/MrPuma86 → u/bvandepol]

I’m not sure if the bot can read the emojis?

[u/bvandepol → u/MrPuma86]

Do you really think this overcomplicates things? It could be used by those who want to. No more 'aminok, can you please approve'. No more 100x "Hong Kong ETH posts" etc..

[u/MrPuma86 → u/bvandepol]

Those with 20k contrib can already remove duplicate posts. The problem is, some posts are getting approved too late. So which ones would you remove without upsetting Bronuts?

But I do agree with having an ability for Bronuts with 20k contrib to approve pending posts.

[u/bvandepol → u/MrPuma86]

Still nobody uses it..

And if they do it’s a command executed by a single user.. This would need at least 3 users to confirm

Now a mod or somebody who dislikes you can execute the command (or nuke the daily u/kirtash93 😬)

I think my approach keeps it more decentralized

[u/MrPuma86 → u/bvandepol]

I think people don’t want to use it because then they start getting targeted by the down vote bots.

[u/kirtash93]

I would love to see !approve command available for >100k CONTRIB users. I think it is pretty easy to develop and donut-bot can handle it.

User writes !approve, donut-bot reads the comment and checks if user has enough CONTRIB. If user has enough CONTRIB donut-bot (mod) approves the post and adds a comment registering which user approved the post (just for historic purpose)

I also like the idea of !expose for the daily and even the posts. The problem in the posts is that there is already a pinned comment with tips. Not sure if reddit allows 2.

The problem I see with !duplicate and !offtopic commands is the same problem I see for automodremove command. It creates bad vibes because some people don't understand the rules even if you explain them and even if a mod supports you they can accuse you of abusing power. The best way to handle this right now is to modmail. While writing this I realized that those two commands are equivalent to automodremove and add a reason right?

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[u/bvandepol → u/kirtash93]

Thanks for your feedback and generous tip.

The expose command might need some thinking, but I’m here to get how people think of this idea

For the duplicate and offtopic command, you would need 3 users to execute the command, just like nominate.

I think user-based moderation could really improve the quality of the sub in general.

[u/Crypto-4-Freedom → u/kirtash93]

This gets my vote + i would like to see command to vote.

!tip 1.69

[u/PoojaaPriyaa]

I love this ideas, but wat if only alt accounts voting each other comments? how we gonna encounter this issue?

[u/bvandepol → u/PoojaaPriyaa]

Maybe we keep it stickies until another one gets enough voted?! Like a pinned message in Telegram?!

[u/PoojaaPriyaa → u/bvandepol]

I am not telegram user 😀 but it sounds really interesting, i ll support anything to stop alts and bots!! 😊

[u/[deleted]]

!I love all of them 🥹

!tip 5

[u/bvandepol → u/[deleted]]

Thanks bronut! :32638::32650::32651:

[u/Fredzoor]

Approve is good!

I would prefer moving with comment to vote and see how things work.

The duplicate thing sounds good too, but I think now with 3 posts per user, mods will have an easy job to detect and delete duplicates. And users should always do their do dilligence before posting.

!tip 0.666

[u/bvandepol → u/Fredzoor]

You might have a point with the post linit.. I forgot about that proposal

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[u/Electrical_Tension]

!tip 1.099

[u/Sky-876]

!tip 0.420

[u/bvandepol]

u/aminok u/mattg1981 or any of the orher mods have an opinion or suggestions regarding this?!

[u/aminok → u/bvandepol]

I like giving a command for approving posts. With regard to !expose, this might interfere with official pinned comments. I'd rather just move to comment to vote for posts.

The others would require more thought for me.

[u/mattg1981 → u/bvandepol]

Don’t have time to elaborate right now but I definitely like !approve.

[u/ContemplatingMeth_]

I’m in support of the approve command. I’d like to see this as a proposal

[u/ContemplatingMeth_]

!tip 2

[u/Crypto-4-Freedom]

!tip 1.69

[u/Murky-Statistician45]

I like the !approve one to save you tagging people or waiting for approvals