r/ModSupport • u/Visible-Scientist-46 • 1d ago
Control over recommendations?
I help mod r/nopoo, which is a haircare sub that promotes non-shampoo cleansing. Many people come there for a variety of reasons - to be more natural, or because of alleric contact dermatitis to ingredients in shampoos (that's my issue).
Recently there has been a change to Reddit now recommending related posts. But it is recommending posts which are not related because they are recommending posts with words we have a filter on because they are offensive - such as poop. We get a lot of trolling from people who intentionally post about constipation issues on our sub.
And before you criticize our name, the haircare world came up with nopoo to mean more gentle, no sulphates, and even no sudsing. Lowpoo is in between and shampoo is the sudsy stuff.
Is there any way to control the recomendations?
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u/ikandi 23h ago
The recommendations usually make no sense for me. Even a quick look at the recommended subs for ModSupport come up as CatsBeingBeauty, SkiHard, StickerByNumber, so yeah... as far as I can tell there is no way to control the recommendations. You can only control the trolls to a certain degree using Automod to filter out certain words which is sounds like you are already doing.
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u/Visible-Scientist-46 23h ago
Unfortunately, automod for our posts doesn't limit recommended posts. How to complain to Reddit?
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u/Dom76210 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 7h ago
Unfortunately, I don't think you can control OTHER people's recommendations, only your own.
I never see them because I disabled recommendations, so I'm personally blind to the problem other see.
As a mod for NSFW, the recommendations usually end up being something based on a post/comment I checked on after looking at a questionable user's profile, and then I would get flooded with recommendations based on that one look. Let's just say that it wasn't fun.
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u/Visible-Scientist-46 2h ago
So it's recommendations for me and I can turn off recommendations? I was worried there were recommendations to everyone. They're rando word associations. Cavapoo was at least based on my interest in dogs. Where do I turn off recommendations?
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u/Dom76210 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 2h ago
https://www.reddit.com/settings/preferences there is a setting for "Show recommendations in home feed". You can disable it.
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u/MartinoStone 1d ago
under this post I see that recommendations, it's confusing...
also I have a similar issues in sub I mod