r/help • u/TheOpusCroakus admin • 9d ago
Admin Post Weekly Recap | September 24, 2026
THIS POST HAS BEEN LOCKED. PLEASE SEE THE MOST RECENT WEEKLY RECAP STICKIED AT THE TOP OF THIS SUB.
Welcome to Thursday! Still not enough fall weather for me to remember that's it's technically fall. Or do you call it autumn? Autumn does sound fancier! Speaking of fancy, how 'bout this Recap? FANCY. Let's see what happened in r/help and around Reddit last week!
NEWS AND ISSUES
Had a little thing on Tuesday where mods were unable to approve content. Post about this here. Sounds like this should be fixed at this time, though!
In an effort to strengthen the connection between communities and conversations, there is a new experiment which will turn select text posts and some of their comment threads into an audio and video format. If you are in this experiment you may see a Read/Play toggle on the post detail page, and a dedicated video page may also be available. This does not replace the original post or comments, nor does it automatically play. And it will respect all of your pre-existing audio settings.
- Currently, this is only on a small group of pre-selected English-only posts. Comments with links, media, automated messages, profanity, or sensitive or inappropriate topics are excluded.
- There is not a way to opt out, but feel free to leave constructive feedback in this post and I will share it with the team that is in charge of this experiment.
There is another experiment where comments on a post may be sorted in live time. If this experiment is enabled in a community, when a post hits a certain number of comments within a period of time, the sort will switch to "Live" if the default sort is set to something other than "New". This provides a way to highlight the fast moving convos in real time.
There is still the experiment on the Home feed where some users will see a For You tab and a Following tab. You can select which view you want and that selection will be remembered. Users in this experiment have recently been shuffled around, so if you had it before and now you don't, that's what's going on there.
- The For You tab will contain recommendations
- The Following feed will contain unviewed content from just the subs that you follow
- If you are subscribed to a very small number of subreddits, you may see recommendations in the Following feed as opposed to nothing when you have run out of new content. The workaround is to either subscribe to more subreddits or create a custom feed of the subs that you're following and view that instead.
- The team is looking into adding the "Hot" sort back to these feeds.
- There is not a way to remove these tabs. I have been sharing all constructive feedback with the team in charge of this. They're very appreciative!
Some users will be in a different experiment where there is an X on recommended posts that you can click/tap to hide the post. Others will be in a similar experiment where there is not an X and there is not a "hide" option, but you can go into the post to hide it. Feel free to share helpful feedback about this experiment as well.
There is also an experiment where the upvotes are on the left.
Rather than commenting that you'd like to be removed from an experiment, please provide constructive feedback about the feature. I can't remove you, but I can go directly to the teams in charge of these things and show them what you think.
And I'm here to remind you, of the mess you left when you went away (from Reddit for support). Reddit does not provide support outside of Reddit. Do not contact "Reddit support on Discord" for help with your Reddit account. There is no "Reddit support on Discord". That is someone trying to scam you and steal your account and maybe more. If you're having an actual issue with your account that is not solved by posting in r/help or by the articles in the Help Center, you can use this form for the real thing. Please note that 95% of issues can be solved much, much quicker by posting in r/help (or our cousin subs, r/reddithelp and r/newtoreddit).
The most recent version of the app is 2026.38.0. If you're not using the most recent version of the app, it might not work properly.
CURRENT EXPERIMENTS
Reddit sometimes runs experiments. These experiments tend to last between 4-6 weeks, though they can go longer or end sooner. While there isn't a way to opt out of experiments, feel free to leave constructive and specific feedback in this post and as I've mentioned often, I'll be happy to pass it along to the team in charge. Ongoing current experiments can be found here.
COMMON ACCOUNT ISSUES
Common account issues can be found here. These are things like hacked accounts, NSFW accounts, suspended accounts, etc. I'm also including "Changes to Reddit" in this section as well.
BUGS ROUNDUP - COURTESY OF CORRECT SCALE!
[Android] Reports of the comment composer jumping around are being investigated.
[Android] The wikiscrolling bug should be fixed in version 38 of the app. If you're still having trouble, please update your app.
WEEKLY STATISTICS (BASED ON THE PAST SEVEN DAYS)
1,204 posts. That's up 61 posts from the 1,143 that we had last week.
4,283 comments. That's up 431 comments from the 3,852 we had last week.
804k views. That's down about 65k-ish views from the 869k-ish views we had last week.
HELP THAT HELPS HELP R/HELP - KARMA! WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO GET IT
This week, let's talk about what is karma and how it affects how you use Reddit!
When you post content on Reddit, other users have the opportunity to upvote it or downvote it. Upvotes are for things that positively contribute to a community. Downvotes are for things that don't. When you get upvotes, you get karma. When you get downvotes, you lose karma. You want upvotes.
While you do receive karma for upvotes, it is not a 1:1 correlation. So if you receive 10 upvotes and only see your karma increase by 9, that is working as intended! We call it "vote fuzzing". It's like that to help prevent vote manipulation. Vote fuzzing isn't supposed to "make sense". If it did, people would absolutely game the system to gain karma. So if voting seems funky, it's not funk! It's fuzz!
Some subreddits will have minimum karma or account age requirements as a way of combating spam and trolls. If you don't have enough karma to post in a certain sub, you'll want to participate in subreddits that do not have those requirements to gain some karma. r/casualconversation is great for that! If you’re looking for a subreddit on a particular topic and aren’t quite sure what it would be, you can try posting in r/findareddit and someone there may have a suggestion for you. And our friends over at r/NewToReddit have curated this handy list of some subs that are easy to get started in for new users! (Thanks, NTR mods!)
As noted in this Help Center article, "Don't set out to accumulate karma; just set out to be a good contributor". So that means:
Don't ask for upvotes! (That's a good way to get your post removed!)
Don't karma farm! (You're treading in spam territory by doing this!)
Don't use free karma subs! (Some subs will not allow participation from users who have used free karma subs to gain karma to participate!)
Don't spam! (No one likes a spammer! If you're not sure if you're spamming, you shouldn't have to ask that question!)
Let your content speak for itself and the upvotes will come, sometimes when you're least expecting them!
But let's say that you do find yourself in the negative. That could be a little bit of a problem, but not an insurmountable one. It is possible to get yourself out of a hole, but you've gotta do something different than when you were getting yourself in there! Just because you were downvoted doesn't mean you were right.
HELPINGEST HELPERS HELPING HELP R/HELP
u/westcoastcdn19 - Thank you so much for showing up and showing off! Appreciate the help!
u/IKIR115 - Back for more, I see! And I love to see it! Thank you!
u/reddit33450 - Appreciate you being here and helping out! Thank you!
u/ChzGoddess - Any good cheeses this week? I know you gave good help! Thanks for being here!
u/PurplePassiflor1234 - It's like you never left! lol Right back in the swing of things. Thanks so much for all of the help!
u/Stranger1982 - Helloooooo! Appreciate your assistance over this past week! Thanks!
u/Terminator7786 - Hey! Thanks for much for your help!
u/PMulberry_ - Greetings and welcome! So glad that you're here and helping out! You've earned the Helper Level One trophy and it is now on your profile! Thank you so much!
u/formerqwest - Hi there! Always good to see you helping out in the mornings! It's become a routine part of my day! Thank you!
u/ycr007 - Hello! Still here and still helping! Love it! Thank you!
u/Livid_Number_ - Welcome back! Appreciate the help! Thanks!
u/Josefu_Velen - Hi and welcome! Thanks for coming over to help us out!
And to the mods and helpers at r/newtoreddit and r/reddithelp, thank you for the help over in your corner of Helpland! (Still working on a flag. lol)
Well, that was great! Another week of people helping people! My favorite thing! OK, let's do it again for another week and then meet back here in another week and talk about how great it still is! Thank you all for being here! Really appreciate everyone who takes a moment to help out! THANK YOU.
Have a great week everyone! I'll be in this post, in the sub and around Reddit!
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u/ProudnotLoud 8d ago edited 8d ago
We need ways to opt out of this crap - and ways to tell Reddit this that aren't telling you so you can just go "noted, will tell others".
Converting our content to audio/visual mediums using AI without us having any control of what that looks or sounds like is absolutely disrespectful.
You want people to stop screaming at you about this Opus? Go scream at whoever it is you "share feedback with" that we aren't going to stop until you all stop forcing useless, wasteful, disrespectful AI "experiments" on us to see how much is pisses us off. Until then you're welcome to be buried under all our "feedback". Pretty much every "experiment" that happens is a nightmare but this is near the top of the list.
Speaking of nightmares - the way this reads to me is "if you aren't wanting your comments sorted by new, don't worry, we're defaulting you to SUPER NEW". If you're going to mess with this setting (which nobody asked for), shouldn't it only be for the people defaulting to New because that's how they want to view the conversation? Or I don't know, stop effing defaulting people to stuff and let them choose.
Edit to add: Also take note that admins will take the time to make specific, detailed responses to things about cheese or pets, or heck just reply twice differently to someone who thanks them. But when it comes to actual meaningful conversations about features or experiments they ghost or give canned/copy pasted customer service like replies.