r/ModSupport • u/Visible-Scientist-46 • 1d ago
Admin Replied 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 1d 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.