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r/IdeasForTheAdmins is a subreddit where you can submit ideas from your reddit feature wishlist for admin consideration. This is not an admin-run community, so we can't personally implement the ideas, but we will try and give our support!

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r/IdeasForTheAdmins is a subreddit where you can submit ideas from your reddit feature wishlist for admin consideration. This is not an admin-run community, so we can't personally implement the ideas, but we will try and give our support!

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Rules

  • 1. Posts should be feature requests, not complaints or any kind of call out. Sent bugs to r/bugs.

  • 2. State your feature idea clearly

  • 3. Do not call out specific subreddits or users

  • 4. Be civil in your ideas and discussion

  • 5. Be constructive, not destructive

  • 6. We suggest providing new UI feedback to r/help

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1

Customizing feed with my preferred flairs

https://preview.redd.it/qc921ux0n74e1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dba1c5215c059bb68e9f90ae0fe95c75304c1103

Hello. Could you add a feature that allows users to customize their feed by selecting multiple preferred flairs? At the moment, users can only choose one flair or view all, which can be inconvenient. Additionally, please make it so that these preferences are saved to the user's Reddit account until they decide to reset them.

Thanks.

0 Comments
2024/12/01
10:07 UTC

0

Karma spent should unban you

Often, Mods act inappropriately. Redditors should be able to "spend" karma to get unbanned. Reddit is for the users, right?

12 Comments
2024/12/01
07:34 UTC

1

Feature Request: Date Filters for Enhanced Post Search Functionality

Hello dev, I'd like to propose a feature that I think would greatly improve our search experience: time-specific search filters. This feature would allow users to filter search results by specific dates, months, or years.

Here's a simple example of how this could work:

  • Add a "Time" filter option to the search bar
  • Allow users to select a specific year, month, or date range
  • Integrate this feature with our existing search algorithms to ensure accurate results.
0 Comments
2024/12/01
06:44 UTC

0

Deleted accounts posts and comments getting deleted too.

4 Comments
2024/11/30
23:11 UTC

3

Keep paragraph formatting during comment edit

A dream of mine is for paragraph spacing to still apply during a comment edit. It's annoying to have to re-read the resulting text wall and manually recreate the spacing.

0 Comments
2024/11/30
22:10 UTC

1

Clickable links in usernotes

Would be handy for linking to team discussion in BTS subs, modmails, etc

0 Comments
2024/11/30
20:42 UTC

0

Use AI to inform poster / commenter in real time

I've written several posts & comments, only to find out my account is too new or lacking in karma to post. All of that time could've been saved if Reddit had real time AI that could clue me in as I'm typing the comment.

3 Comments
2024/11/30
19:17 UTC

0

AI assessment of truthfulness or other LLM measured metrics - with disclaimer.

I think it would be fun and rather useful? If it's something in the form of

  • can be requested to fast fact check a comment
  • does not require manual checking.

Doesn't have to apply to all comments.

0 Comments
2024/11/30
12:47 UTC

0

Image posts in old reddit

1 Comment
2024/11/30
11:01 UTC

2

Please make code fences work for old reddit

Having to indent by 4 instead of using code fences because code fences work on all interfaces except old is annoying.

2 Comments
2024/11/29
22:29 UTC

0

Can we erase posts from u/deleted after 30 days? It's ridiculous that old posts are still up. Some are years old.

12 Comments
2024/11/29
17:53 UTC

5

Muting a Category.

Instead of going to mute each subreddit one by one, how about muting the category it self? everything is already categorized so it will be easier (?)

For example: I don't like seeing news or anything related to crypto currency, so all what I have to do it to mute news and financial categories and I'm more happy and more engaging with subreddits that I'm into when browsing the popular tab.

edit: correct the word "financial"

3 Comments
2024/11/28
23:59 UTC

3

Improve wiki tools so we can keep our ideas projects/ideas within Reddit.

In order to organize, align, plan and excute different intiatives within a subreddit, mods have been moving their organization tools outside reddit.

Trello, Google Docs, Github, Discord u others. This lead to information being lost, having a distributed way of cooperating and requiring mods to share personal information outside of the platform.

One of the tools that could be used is the wiki. There is possible to store and centralized a versioned version of decisions, opinions and would allows to keep our planning within Reddit.

However the current ui looks like this:

https://preview.redd.it/va49lyi5tl3e1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c658413e08b5b106043620b4df6c7dec5212fb7

Some observations:

- In the red square you can see an overlap between the settings and the pages. I would be nice to have full view of the current pages in the wiki.

- It would be useful to modernize the UI and include features similar to google docs.

- It would be useful to have a comment section on the pages so we can unformmaly share our thougths on different sections.

- It would be useful to have something similar to what Github provides when adding comments in a pull request.

- It would be useful to be able to draft a calendar and link it to the scheduled posts.

Regards.

Edit: the title is poorly written, english is not my main language.

0 Comments
2024/11/28
08:38 UTC

19

Appeals should allow more than 250 characters and users should be able to see the removed content

The current appeals process is a joke. You're limited to 250 characters, which is barely enough characters to say please have a human admin review this decision made by a bot. Any meaningful discussion is going to take more than 250 characters. It doesn't include the removed content, so in most cases the users have no idea what was removed or why.

5 Comments
2024/11/27
13:41 UTC

2

Reopen r/recap

It's been too short to post and we need more time.

0 Comments
2024/11/26
23:16 UTC

0

Can we have Bluesky-style thermonuclear blocklists?

For those who haven't seen this. Bluesky has a moderation system that enables users to build & share mass-blocklists. Blocklist providers can maintain these lists, users can hit the "Report button" and report to their blocklist providers of choice, and when someone's added to that blocklist, they're blocked for everyone using the list.

Which means one person reporting a troll results in millions of people no longer having to tolerate him.

It would probably save everyone, mods & admins included, a huge amount of grief!

Bluesky's labellers would also be cool here!

Thanks and cheers!

1 Comment
2024/11/26
16:38 UTC

2

Reddit Recap for web.

0 Comments
2024/11/26
14:23 UTC

4

Stop machine translation of post.

I don't know why. But for the last few weeks my searches on internet has been cluttered with horrendous machine translations of Reddit.

Every time I see them I just want to ban Reddit. I cannot find any way to send feedback directly to Reddit. But I've had it with their nuisance, so I need to contact them in some way.

So my idea is that the admins and/or devs of Reddit just remove the machine translations. Or, make them an alternative that you must deliberately activate, thus keeping them away from cluttering external search engines. Or, alternatively, hire an army of translators that make sensible and usable translations of every post.

1 Comment
2024/11/25
16:58 UTC

8

Add BlueSky & Mastodon to Social Media Links

With their user base growing steadily, it would be nice to have dedicated options for BlueSky and Mastodon in the Social Media Links section of the user profile to complement Twitter/X account links.

1 Comment
2024/11/24
22:26 UTC

3

Need a metric added to Reddit that lets users know when a subreddit is difficult to post to.

The auto-moderators of your meme subreddits are completely out of control. I am a successful meme creator who would like to share some of my funnier content with other people on Reddit. But I've had no end to problems trying to get my posts to stick.

I always read the subreddit's terms of posting, and I don't post insulting or controversial stuff. Cat memes. I can't even post cat memes without every one of my attempted posts being deleted in 10 seconds by an auto-moderator. It's the same with every meme subreddit, and it is maddening.

If Reddit had a metric that let me know over 90% of all submissions to the subreddit are automatically deleted, I wouldn't waste my time posting in that subreddit; and I'd move on to a more-receptive place to post my memes.

Thanks.

0 Comments
2024/11/24
22:23 UTC

3

Rename "Potassium Overlord" into "Megabanana"

I think it would be fitting to call the achievement for scrolling 1,000,000 banana lengths "Megabanana" because mega is the right greek prefix for million and the name has a nice ring to it.

0 Comments
2024/11/24
12:16 UTC

1

Add an option to access sidebar quickly on mobile

On ios, I frequently use the sidebar to switch into subreddits that I have hit recently or are in my favorites.

When you navigate into messages, particularly from search, its a pain to get back to.
Back back back back. Or swipe swipe swipe swipe.

Is there an existing shortcut to do this? A setting or button allowing to slide open the sidebar from any context would make this much more efficient.

0 Comments
2024/11/23
17:26 UTC

1

You should add a upvote threshold for notifications

This suggestion is so that people don't get their notifications clogged up with upvote notifications.

An example is to set the threshold for 50 upvotes for comments so that you don't get notified until you get to 50 upvotes and then make a separate upvote threshold for posts which could have a higher threshold like 100 before you get upvote notifications.

It should be best implemented as a drop down menu with options like 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000 and so on until you get to whatever is the highest upvote notification that you can get because a field to type into wouldn't really make sense as there isn't a 75 upvote notification or a 20 upvote notification.

Please tell me if there is a better subreddit to put suggestions about Reddit overall rather than just a subreddit as this one is more for Reddit in general.

2 Comments
2024/11/23
16:45 UTC

1

The button to preview the text of a post needs to be larger.

It's small and almost completely surrounded by hyperlinks that will take me straight to the post itself, which is what I don't want to have happen when I'm trying to tap the preview icon. But my fat fingers touch one of them even slightly and off they go.

0 Comments
2024/11/23
07:10 UTC

1

A tab on mobile apps that only show posts made into accounts I have followed.

There are accounts on Reddit, e.g u_nasa or u_reuters, that usually made posts into their own profile and not a subreddit, but I usually don't see them due to all the posts from the subreddits. Can we have a tab on mobile app and left menu on PC where only I see posts from profiles? This idea basically makes Reddit that already have a huge user base a competitor/alternative to Twitter (X has already replicated subreddits with communities). This change also encourages users to use Reddit more like a personal blog and made more posts into their own profiles when it doesn't suit any subreddit.

2 Comments
2024/11/23
06:56 UTC

2

My subreddit was set to restricted silently by reddit, could we at least get a modmail when changes like this are made?

0 Comments
2024/11/23
03:53 UTC

4

Key Word Blocking/Avoidance

Have a filter that limits the viewership of specific content that the viewer wishes not to see. For instance I get hella depressed stumbling across cancer posts after I lost a family member to it. That kind of thing.

2 Comments
2024/11/23
03:13 UTC

2

Audio/Video guides to Reddiquette and Reddit Content Policy

I'm thinking maybe some people that don't have the attention span to read the rules, that having A/V descriptive content would increase accessibility.

2 Comments
2024/11/22
02:32 UTC

1

This is probably common request but auto mod is annoying. How about auto correct

I always wanted this feature. I would say about 40 percent of my posts are auto banned. It is annoying. I am not a malicious user. Most are some small thing I missed from faq. Some I don’t know why banned

If you can auto ban. Why not preview mode to see if it will get banned and why. Even highlight or auto correct the submission

4 Comments
2024/11/21
18:15 UTC

4

I would like to create a custom feed based on exclusion

Like "all of my subs except these few"

Because adding 90% of my subs the list one by one, is a pain

5 Comments
2024/11/21
17:27 UTC

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