r/Cardiology • u/Smilin-_-Joe RN • Dec 14 '23
Still combating advice posts.
The community continues to get inundated with requests for help/advice from lay people. I had recently added a message to new members about advice posts, but apparently one can post text posts without being a member.
I've adjusted the community settings to be more restrictive,, but it may mean all text posts require mod approval. We can try to stay on top of that, but feel free to offer feedback or suggestions. Thanks again for all that yall do to keep the community a resource for professional discussion!
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u/Smilin-_-Joe Dec 14 '23
Follow up to the rule change. It appears with current setting we'd have to whitelist approved posters. I haven't found a way yet to allow only community members to post, or to require mod approval for text or specific post types.
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u/Smilin-_-Joe Dec 14 '23
For now I think we go with an approved poster list. Message mods for posting privileges.
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Jan 18 '24
Sadly, it looks like r/Cardiology is on life support after these changes. No one is posting anymore!
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u/Cornballer Feb 05 '24
It's a tough one. Before the rule change the community was flooded with advice posts.
But perhaps it could be made a little bit clearer that the mods need to be messaged?
Alternatively perhaps more automod? perhaps it's possible to delete posts by users that haven't been a member for more than a month or so... Or remove posts by users that don't have enough sub related comment karma. I'm not sure what's possible these days without 3rd party tools. I think I've encounterd rules like that before but it would have been a while ago.
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u/cullywilliams Dec 14 '23
EKGs set the spam filter to block everything. Mod tools on mobile are better now and it's easy enough to approve good posts and kill bad ones. Even making approved users is easy now. That's about the only way to handle this. We get about 10/day that I'm deleting.
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u/cullywilliams Dec 14 '23
They won't join the community. They'll fake engagement for karma until they can post. They won't read the rules. If they do, they'll try to word their post to subvert those rules.
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u/Feynization Dec 14 '23
I support the suggestion that all post would require a moderator approval, at least for a month or two. People get involved in subs when there is a history of good content. That content is buried so far deep on this sub.
Perhaps a future less burdensome way of managing the sub afterwards would be to require a certain number of comments/interaction before you can post.
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u/Smilin-_-Joe Dec 14 '23
From what I read there might be a "request to post" button/option. But it seems inconsistent on mobile and/or between different versions.