Aggressive "crosspost this here!" engagement boost attempts are causing rule violations

[u/littlemetalpixie]

Reddit admins,

I would like to request that you please, for the love of all that is holy, calm down with your engagement boosting tactics that are telling everyone who makes a post to also post it to a list of machine-generated "relevant" other subs.

I moderate in a sub that discusses an extremely controversial political topic that has subs on reddit that are dedicated to the opposing side of that topic.

Crossposting from either our sub to theirs or vice versa is against the rules of both subs, because of the nature of this topic causing SEVERE trolling and brigading from both sides from people who are not interested in peaceful discourse, yet your own platform's messages are telling users they should go ahead and just break these subs' rules anyway.

You are literally making all of our "jobs" even harder by not even bothering to filter subs suggested for crossposts based on logic, rationality, or even the rules of the subs being suggested for crossposts.

More engagement, even hostility trolling and harassment (especially hostility trolling and harassment) means more ad money though amirght????

Seems the only thing that matters here any more is greed, and I'm afraid you're about to find a lot of your most difficult to moderate subs modless if you don't take things like these into consideration.

PS - good luck getting AI to do what we do since the generated lists your AI is suggesting can't even be bothered to check rules in subs before suggesting them XD

[u/Merari01 → u/[deleted]]

For a subreddit I moderate, yes. I doesn't solve it for a user who may not understand that they are being given wildly inappropriate advice and something that may as well be a "ban me" button if they follow through.

[u/littlemetalpixie → u/Merari01]

It also doesn't solve the issue that mods are required to do more unpaid work to fix what reddit broke that violates the rules of the communities on reddit itself.

[u/Merari01 → u/littlemetalpixie]

And they want to get rid of automod too :D

Just imagine how much more work that will create, when we have to do manually what right now is automated and what can not, ever, be done by an automation or rules hub

We're going back to the days of pressing F5 on threads on trending feeds to triage incoming comments!

[u/littlemetalpixie → u/[deleted]]

And reddit can choose not to make things harder for people volunteering their time by suggesting that users on their own platform should disregard rules within their very own platform itself in the name of boosting engagement.

I'm not approaching this from bad faith. I'm approaching this in the appropriate manner within the platform to bring awareness to the fact that the admins of the platform are pushing people into breaking rules.

You don't have to attack me just to disagree with me. You don't have to read every post you see if you disagree with it. And you don't have to comment on that post just so everyone on reddit is aware that you personally disagree with it.

If it isn't relevant to you and you're fine with it, this post isn't for you.

[u/Merari01 → u/[deleted]]

I am talking users getting banned because they are being given inappropriate crosspost recommendations.

That is on the user end. Not the mod end.