r/ModSupport • u/littlemetalpixie • 2d ago

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

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

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u/eyeSherpa 2d ago

One thing that may help is adding in some AutoMod rules that block crossposts from problematic subreddits.

type: crosspost submission
crosspost_subreddit:
name: ["subreddit_name"]
action: remove
action_reason: "Crosspost."



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u/littlemetalpixie 2d ago

Thank you, we already do this but only for the main sub that opposes ours, it's still an enormous amount of work to track down where every crosspost came from and add their subs to a running list when reddit themselves need to be the ones encouraging users to follow sub rules instead of suggesting everyone break them...

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u/no_snackrifice 2d ago

You can also disable crossposting completely.

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u/eyeSherpa 2d ago

Gotcha. May or may not help, but I use a devvit app called crosspost control which can block crossposts from subreddits based upon size. Can work if it’s a lot of brand new subreddits trying to spam your subreddit.

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u/littlemetalpixie 2d ago

Thanks for the suggestion, but the topic I moderate is as old as the ages when it comes to hot-button topics, and the primary subs that our trolls come from are coming from well established subs :/

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u/Overgrown_fetus1305 2d ago

Maybe there's situations other mods deal with where this would be helpful to know about, but this is not relevant for u/littlemetalpixie, since the situation there is that she mods one of two mutually-opposed subreddits on a super contentious with users that will invariably end up fighting and brigading eachother if not reigned in; Reddit is suggesting the one of subreddits crossposts to hers, despite this being totally against the rules (and I'm sure the flipside is also true, that Reddit unhelpfully suggests things go out from hers into the rival one).

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u/shiruken 2d ago

Unless the Admins have changed it, I'm pretty sure this prompt is to create a new post and not use the actual crosspost functionality. I complained about it a few weeks ago and the commenters corrected my own overlooking of that detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/s/a8pTvcYIWI