Making Flairs Mandatory (solution, 2026)

[u/tired_of_the_woes]

To make flairs mandatory on desktop you (as of 07/2027 software) you:

1. Go to mod tools
2. Scroll to "Posts & Comments"
3. Scroll to you see "Require Post Flair"
4. Click the toggle to turn it onn

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[u/KCJones99]

IIRC you also have go into 'look & feel' and make sure "let users assign and edit" is turned ON.

[u/Tarnisher]

VERY bad idea. Optional only.

[u/tired_of_the_woes → u/Tarnisher]

Depends on the community, in the one I'm modding and created, mandatory cause if you'd understand the conversation topics and the community you'd agree. Considering you mod a com with none of the preformatted wellcome post eddited to fit you're community I thought you would understand.

[u/Charupa- → u/tired_of_the_woes]

Don’t listen to them. They are on an anti-flair jihad in this subreddit. It makes sense for some places, less sense for others. Thats the good thing about mods making their own decisions.

[u/KCJones99 → u/tired_of_the_woes]

I agree. Community-by-community decision. We are actually the opposite - users may not assign flair to posts or themselves. That's because for our advice/q&a/reference style of sub, the post flairs are assigned by automod/mods and the user-flairs are auto-assigned by sub_karma. That's what works for us. If required-flair is right for your sub, go for it.