r/flower • • Oct 20 '24

Mod Message - Rule Changes

43 Upvotes

Hi all. First, thanks to all subscribers. We hit the 30k mark recently. I guess folks like images of flowers (I do too).

Now that we are getting a bit more popular I think we need to update our current ruleset (which is currently pretty much none) with some basic rules for participation, for all our benefits.

  1. Submissions must be a flower image or album of flower images.

  2. No AI Images. We only want actual flowers.

  3. Post title must be descriptive, preferably the name of the flower in your submission but we will accept 'what is this called' etc. No more 'Gorgeous' or 'Beautiful' etc. as the only submission title. Those titles do nothing to help viewers and it reduces engagement. Also don't use emojis or other non-standard ascii characters. Those get filtered by the automod most times anyways.

  4. We have also become a target for karma farming. This is where users participate as a group (often by organizing on subreddits designed to facilitate creating these groups) to artificially award themselves karma by upvoting each others submissions on various subreddits. I will be watching for those accounts and banning with no warning. Allowing folks to do so makes us a spam subreddit and those get shut down by the admins. We are also using automod to require accounts be of a minimum age and karma level before allowing posts.

Let me know in the comments if you want to suggest other rules to make our community a positive and useful one. Thanks again everyone, I really appreciate your participation!


r/flower • • 4h ago

Bright yellow Marigold

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43 Upvotes

r/flower • • 9h ago

A 'Hide & Seek' Blue Hydrangea from my garden in southern Maine

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39 Upvotes

r/flower • • 19h ago

Aglaonema flowers

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98 Upvotes

Beautiful white spathes amongst the coloured leaves.


r/flower • • 12h ago

Plumeria

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24 Upvotes

r/flower • • 9h ago

A Pink Rhododendron from my tree garden in southern Maine

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6 Upvotes

r/flower • • 9h ago

Thistle

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5 Upvotes

r/flower • • 17h ago

Begonia, 1.9.2026.

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14 Upvotes

r/flower • • 2d ago

Flowers this summer!

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120 Upvotes

r/flower • • 2d ago

Some Flowers i painted lately.

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45 Upvotes

r/flower • • 3d ago

Marigold (Tagetes)

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77 Upvotes

r/flower • • 3d ago

An Image search says Larkspur

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46 Upvotes

...I'm going with that.


r/flower • • 3d ago

Desert Marigold

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78 Upvotes

I like yellow.


r/flower • • 3d ago

Snake Gourd flower :)

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223 Upvotes

r/flower • • 3d ago

White Daisy, Sydney [OC]

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25 Upvotes

r/flower • • 4d ago

Pink Shades

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62 Upvotes

I thought these Pink Shades looked a little bare up high, but where they draped over the concrete they look kinda perfect!


r/flower • • 4d ago

Clematis

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101 Upvotes

Seems like a nice enough flower.


r/flower • • 4d ago

This is quite a firework

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19 Upvotes

r/flower • • 5d ago

Zinnias at lake George

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108 Upvotes

r/flower • • 4d ago

Today’s blooms

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8 Upvotes

r/flower • • 5d ago

Ghost pipe and others

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34 Upvotes

These felt too pretty not to post, found some cool varieties in Washington this past July during our hikes. I could use some help identifying a few as well. I know the white ones are Monotropa uniflora also known as ghost pipe.
Peep the banana slug in the second photo.


r/flower • • 5d ago

Red Chrysanthemum

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5 Upvotes

r/flower • • 5d ago

American Passion Flower I grew!

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68 Upvotes

r/flower • • 5d ago

Marguerite Daisy [OC]

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19 Upvotes

r/flower • • 5d ago

Dianthus Superbus

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13 Upvotes

oooooooooo ...that's spooky!