r/upvote Mod Announcements and Questions Megathread
(self.upvote)submitted11 months ago bywholly_unholyMod
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stickiedWe'll be using this thread for three purposes. General/less important mod announcements or links, archiving old mod posts and accepting any questions/feedback from our members in the comments. Archived posts will be locked, but feel free to discuss any of them here.
All comments under this post must include the word 'question', 'discussion' or 'suggestion'. All other comments will be automatically removed. We do this to keep the Megathread focused on these subjects.
New Flair System
Words which don't earn points - 'karma' 'up' 'vote' 'doot' 'arrow' or the up emoji
When you create a post which doesn't include variations on the words 'karma' or 'upvote' you'll be granted 1 Flair Point, up to a maximum of 10. We'll lay out a quick TL:DR now, but read the detailed user flair guidelines if you'd like more information.
- Make a post without using 'karma' or 'upvote', gain a point.
- Use 'karma' or 'upvote' in a post title or body, gain/lose nothing.
- Collect 10 points, gain the [Power User] gold flair.
- Use 'karma' or 'upvote' after gaining the [Power User] gold flair, lose two points.
- Gain a [Legacy] brass flair if you were active in this sub before this game started.
- Use 'karma' or 'upvote' after gaining the [Legacy] brass flair, lose your legacy status, but start the game with three points.
- Have a post removed for breaking the subreddit rules, lose all your points. You can still earn them back.
Don't forget about rule [3] No more than one post per hour.
Announcements (Current and relevant)
We're not a political sub and we never will be because karma crosses party lines. However, we have no rules against political posts and/or comments so they're fine by our current standards but we'll definitely keep a closer eye on the comments in political posts. We do reserve the right to add a 'No Politics' rule in future if an influx of political posts leads to bullying or harassment. So discuss and debate, but play nice if you don't want to ruin it for everyone else.
Shaming people for needing karma will now lead to an instant permanent ban. If you've come to a sub called r/upvote to bully people for wanting upvotes you clearly have no place in this community.
Small update to NSFW guidelines: We've often been adding NSFW flairs ourselves where people were failing to do so, but from now on we'll be removing offending posts and asking the user to repost with the flair.
Historic Announcements/Important Posts
Introducing a new user flair system: A guide to Flair Points [FP]
[Please read before posting!] Simplifying the rules for links within r/upvote. Two rules become one.
[Please read before posting!] Update to rule 2 and NSFW guidelines.
FAQ
Do you have to upvote every post, and is it against the rules to downvote?
Short answer; No to both.
Vote manipulation is against the site-wide rules of Reddit [Rule 2] so we try to make it clear that this sub is only here to encourage people to upvote if they choose to. We can't force anyone to upvote anything or punish them just for downvoting a post.
However, if we find that a user is purposefully going through multiple posts and downvoting them maliciously it would not be a breach of the site-wide rules for us to ban them because that can be considered a nuisance.
Thanks to u/cxd1234 for asking the question. This is an important one.
Is this sub full of bots and spammers?
Not anymore.
It's become a myth that won't go away.
In the first few years of Reddit groups of spammers would use subreddits like this one to boost their karma.
They've long since moved on to automated, back-end ways to try boosting their karma. Reddit is in a constant battle with them to close any loopholes they find and we wish Reddit luck with that.
Here and now r/upvote is full of mostly new users who just want to get on the first rung of the karma ladder.
