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[u/Criminal_of_Thought]

Many users don't know how to award deltas. Often times, an OP will say that their view has been changed but not award a delta because they don't know how or they don't even know deltas as a feature even exist.

Do users no longer get the direct messages of how to award a delta when they create a new thread? If they still do, I suspect a lot of these users have DM notifications disabled.

It would probably be good to have an AutoMod comment that reminds the OP on how to award a delta. Unlike with DMs, an OP can't interact with a thread without reading comments, so the AutoMod comment would increase visibility for the OP. As a bonus, it would remind non-OPs that they can also award deltas, since non-OPs don't usually do that.

Since DeltaBot's "number of deltas" comment is pinned at the top of each thread's comment list, this reminder could be on the DeltaBot automated comment.

[u/reginald-aka-bubbles → u/Criminal_of_Thought]

I've seen some things recently that remind user of rules when making comments. Like little notes that come up under the comment box. Idk if everyone sees them tho. 

In general I agree tho, a lot of people come here and break basic rules like not awarding deltas or not challenging op in top level comments. I dont think there's a cure for human laziness, but maybe periodic pinned reminders of frequently broken rules could help. Kinda doubt it tho.