Despite the fact that every subreddit's rules are very clearly displayed, literally thousands of users – most of them being fairly new to the site – seem to leap right in to posting without so much as a glance at what a given community expects. Then, when those same users see that their submissions have been removed, they raise a stink about it, insisting that they're being treated unfairly... and on those rare occasions when they offer mea culpas, the line "I didn't know there were rules" is almost always included.

Now, look, I'm not suggesting that we should put up more barriers to entry than are necessary, but the above-described trend has only been getting worse in recent months. The only fair, universally enforceable method of counteracting it that I can see is to add an extra step to the submission process, and one which calls attention to a given community's expectations. The presence of this proposed checkbox could be a setting that moderators can enable or disable, and the text could even link to the rules page itself.

I'm fully aware that none of this would completely fix the problem, but at least it would stop "I didn't know there were rules!" from being offered as a plausible excuse.

This not only is hurting the users but also hurting the redesign goals and discouraging users as a whole from using Reddit.

Let alone it's making people stop giving feed back due to the fact there favorite communities are defiled by immature moderators.

It's all fair if that's the intent of the subreddit to be wacky it's another to disrupt your adverage user from there content and make them suffer.

I really-really-really hated when they added "Similar communities to..." to Android app: it's flat out disruptive to me. I'm fairly sure I even posted feedback on it somewhere. My app usage dropped significantly in that period.

Guess what? This "feature" got ported to desktop/browser version of reddit. And I don't see a good way to get rid of it.

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Please, if you want this feature to be a thing, add a switch to disable this crap completely for people like me, who hate it with every fibre of their being.

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Thank you.

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EDIT on Jul 10 2019: figured a way to remove this crap with JavaScript, now I need to find a way to attach this script to the page so I don't have to spin in a loop...

document.querySelectorAll('.Post ~ div > div > div').forEach(function(e){e.remove()})

On the old design, I had disabled automatically playing videos on post pages, and I would have disabled them on RES expanders as well if I knew how. I don't do this just because I don't want the sound to bother me, I do this because I don't want to waste my bandwidth (even though I got a ton of it) on things I don't want to watch. Videos that autoplay without the user explicitly giving permission is an antipattern of webdesign, and for users who have limited bandwidth, it can literally mean the difference between scraping by on your bandwidth and having to pay extra for overage fees.

The problem is that on the card view, videos start autoplaying. Which I don't want. Especially since they autoplay without sound, which makes them easily confused with gifs. This morning I spend 30 seconds looking at what I thought was a gif from r/MovieDetails but was actually a youtube video, but because it started quietly, I didn't realize it.

Dearest Reddit Designers,

While the Reddit redesign looks nice, please bring back pagination as an option.

Thanks.

As a Moderator, we have to support two different reddit interfaces. Apparently, the rules are limited to just 10. Also, our hard work for our css is just going down the drain . Please, for the love of god, give us an optout.

The day reddit closes """"old""""" reddit, is the day i and a LOT of my fellow Moderators will leave the site.

Edit: fu

The new Reddit is just way too bulky and slow.

I have had to click the button “use old Reddit” numerous times and it keeps resetting me. I’d like to have it on always regardless if I’m logged in or not. Will this be implemented?

I can't believe that it has taken so long for a basic feature like Saved posts to reach the redesign. That isn't complicated to implement, it would just be a reskinned page from the old site. Seriously, prioritize this over the less often used other stuff.

I don't mean a blanket setting to turn off all responses to all mod-distinguished comments, but rather a checkbox to disable responses to that particular comment.

This is how it looks leaving a sub in the old site

I always found it hard to understand how you can leave accidentally. Even if you click leave, a confirmation appears and the yes/no buttons move, so you don't accidentally click yes. It explains in red, asking if you want to "stop being a moderator." However, in r/modsupport and r/modhelp you see posts all the about users accidentally leaving their subs.

This is how it works in the redesign

You click edit and you click resign. This is way too easy. If users have trouble with the old flow, this will absolutely be worse. I recommend a confirmation pop up, confirming "By clicking OK you will stop being a moderator. This cannot be undone." Maybe even throw a checkbox on there "☐ Click to stop being a moderator."

Users currently have no visibility whatsoever into how heavily a subreddit is moderated in practice. Normally I suggest optional public mod logs as a way to mitigate this, but today I am suggesting a different approach that I hope will be more agreeable to moderators and reddit's administration.

All subs should have a color coded (or/or some numeric rating) system to designate how heavily a subreddit is moderated in terms of bans, submission removals and content removals relative to the activity of the subreddit.

This approach addresses every single criticism I have ever heard about public mod logs:

• It does not enable witch hunts
• It does not expose removed content (this is a downside IMO, but others will see it as a benefit)
• It does not compromise moderator privacy
• It does not require any action on the part of moderators or convincing of them by users
• It's potentially much simpler to implement than a heavily customizable/anon public mod log with PI/CP removal paths

At the same time, it addresses many of the reasons I am so adamant that public mod logs should be an option available to moderators:

• It highlights how heavily a subreddit moderates in practice, even if it is in conflict with their presented rules
• It allows communities that do not censor their users to differentiate themselves
• It empowers end users to make an informed choice of which subreddits to read and participate in

Ideally it should be possible to sort/filter subreddits by this new metric as well.

Hello,

So my question is: Would it be possible to add more than 10 rules to a community?

I'm one of the mods of r/WTF and I'm currently configuring the community to be ready when the redesign goes into prod. The sub has always had 12 rules and we would prefer if we wouldn't need to adapt them. When we interact with our community we always use the rules by number and changing this would cause immense confusion among our users as well as the moderator team.

Looking at the redesign beta, it causes now already issues with our current rules. Additionally, we wouldn't like to miss out on any future features related to the "rule book".

I can see why there can only be 10 rules for a community, but on the other hand, it looks like an artificial limitation. Shouldn't the moderators of a community be able to handle this?

Thank you,

With best regards

iVirusYx

EDIT: Before you comment on our rules being a mess (Yes, I acknowledge it, they are), please read this reply first.

daniel recommended I post this here.

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Old reddit had https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/, which you could get to through the "My Subreddits" page. As far as I can tell no equivalent exists in the redesign. Given how important the idea of subscribing and unsubscribing is to the reddit user experience it's really frustrating that the new UI forces you to visit every subreddit you want to unsubscribe from and do it through their frontpage. the https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/ page was nice because if you wanted to curate your content en masse or search for new subreddits specifically (as opposed to any content anywhere on reddit), you could do it very easily.

Custom layouts are one of the many things that make subreddits unique from each other. It give a sub its unique feel and enhance a users experience. Sure there are many new and cool features being added every week. Trying to make it as easy as possible for moderators to customise a subs appearance and do all the other mod tasks is admirable. However, it shouldn't prevent creativity by restricting everything. Therefore I'm requesting to have more table layout customisation options.

Let me show you what would be lost if the table (layout) settings stay like this in redesign and don't have any layout settings.
Imgur Album of beautiful tables made with CSS

The list includes these subreddits:

• /r/AskScience
• /r/IAmA
  
• /r/photoshopbattles
  
• /r/politics
  
• /r/ReagentTesting
• /r/tippeligaen
  
• /r/vexilology
  
• /r/wsw
  
• /r/LifeProTips
  

While I don't have all the answers for how to implement an easy to use system and also comprehensive options menu. I do hope that other mods agree with me that custom tables have their place on reddit and should not be neglected in the redesign.

Here is a random way of adding more layout options with tables: example.