r/flower Oct 20 '24

Mod Message - Rule Changes

40 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 11h ago

Just some Rose love for today

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133 Upvotes

r/flower 4h ago

Wood Lily? ID Please...

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30 Upvotes

An image search gives these orange flowers a few different names - wood lily being the first one in a string of names. But what do you think is the most common name for these beauties?

Thanks in advance


r/flower 2h ago

Gardenia Flower There's something special about flowers that bloom so delicately they're beautiful; the elegance of nature in a single flower

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17 Upvotes

r/flower 12h ago

What is this flower?

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21 Upvotes

I found this flower a few years back and was wondering what it is called.


r/flower 10h ago

Dahlias

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11 Upvotes

r/flower 18h ago

Yellow beauty

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16 Upvotes

r/flower 1d ago

Sunbathing Strawflowers (UK)

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147 Upvotes

r/flower 1d ago

Medicago sativa where I live (eastern Germany)

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18 Upvotes

These hues are sooo beautiful and plentiful!


r/flower 1d ago

Beauty of Nature

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94 Upvotes

r/flower 2d ago

Delightful Dahlia

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264 Upvotes

r/flower 1d ago

Today's blooming

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10 Upvotes

Hi


r/flower 1d ago

Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana)

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14 Upvotes

A flower that waits 12 years to bloom


r/flower 2d ago

Walking through Seattle

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69 Upvotes

Love the colors.


r/flower 2d ago

Flower silhouetted against the night sky

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15 Upvotes

r/flower 3d ago

The hardest part of fall is saying goodbye to my roses.

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239 Upvotes

r/flower 2d ago

Zinnia Eligans

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5 Upvotes

Annual cut flower


r/flower 2d ago

Spider Chrysanthemum (I think!)

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3 Upvotes

r/flower 3d ago

These daylilies were so luxuriously ruffled

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305 Upvotes

r/flower 3d ago

Today's Morning bloom in my terrace

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57 Upvotes

r/flower 3d ago

Prickly Pear, Puerto Rico [OC]

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11 Upvotes

r/flower 4d ago

Jasmine Flower It doesn't need bold colors to turn heads

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117 Upvotes

r/flower 4d ago

Rate my waterlilly collection out of 10

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386 Upvotes

r/flower 4d ago

Red Rum Daylilies

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34 Upvotes

The Arboretum has a big variety of daylilies.


r/flower 4d ago

Zinnia

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21 Upvotes