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Hey everyone!Today we'd like to talk about simple question posts and the steps we're taking to reduce them.So, we know this is an issue for many of our more experienced users. There are lots of repetitive posts, and many questions that can be answered by reading the sidebar or doing a subreddit search. This is annoying, especially when you’re someone who spends a lot of time here and cares about the subreddit.We want you to enjoy your time on this subreddit. We want to do something about simple question posts, but we also want to do this in a way that we can follow up on our promises.This is why we’ve been hesitant to promise any action related to diminishing simple question posts. Manually removing all such posts is very time intensive, and mod team availability would lead to this being enforced unevenly.BUT there are other ways of enacting change than just sitting in /new day in day out. And that’s what this post is about!We are implementing some changes that will encourage the behavior we would like to see - like reading the wiki - and discourage the behaviour we dislike - like posting simple questions outside the help thread. Our hope is that this will improve the post quality in the sub.These are the steps we are taking:1. Updated posting guidelines and submit page textBoth the posting guidelines and the text on the submission page were made more than 2 years ago and reflected the rules and community size we had at the time. They were inadvertently slanted towards making posts for simple help questions and identifying skin concerns.That’s why we rewrote them to encourage users to a) ask their questions in the daily help thread and b) when they do make a separate post, to try and phrase it so that it stimulates discussion. We hope this will lead to a decrease of simple help posts - and an increase of thought-provoking threads.Click here to see our new posting guidelines aaand click here to see the new submit page text! 2. New Automod messagesNo tag replyWhen users don’t use a correct title tag in their post, Automod removes their post and replies to it. Until now this has been a super basic reply explaining what tag to use.We’ve realized this is a great moment to catch users before they successfully make a post to the sub, and to let them know if their post might break a rule or is better off in the help thread. With the rise of mobile use, many users don’t know about our wiki or rules, and it’s good to give them information they may have missed. That’s why we’ve set up Automod to tweak his reply based on the keywords the OP uses in their post.Each reply to an untagged post includes:One of the following:An explanation of what rule their post might be breaking (like medical advice) and what they should do instead ORRelevant wiki links that might answer their question;Info about the sidebar and how to find it on mobile;A strong recommendation to post in our help thread if the user needs advice;A reminder to include all relevant information when asking for help (with a link to the posting guidelines).We hope that this will reduce the amount of simple question posts made in the sub - either because the user finds their question is already answered in the wiki, or because they opt to ask in the daily help thread.Message based on title tagA user may tag their post correctly based on what they see in the sub, but still have no idea about our sidebar or wiki. To combat that we’re now having Automod send a PM to a user based on a title tag (but he won’t remove their post). He will only do this once for each user.The tags that he’ll respond to are: [Acne], [Anti-Aging], [Skin Concerns], [Product Question] & [Routine Help]The message includes the following:Relevant wiki links that might answer their questionInfo about the sidebar and how to find it on mobileA recommendation to post in our help thread if the user needs adviceA reminder to include all relevant information when asking for help (with a link to the posting guidelines)Because Automod can’t know whether the user is an experienced skincare addict or a crispy fresh newbie, we opted to make him only send this message once. While users may ask about a different topic at a later date, they will have already been told about the sidebar and the help thread, which hopefully is enough to encourage reading the wiki and asking simple questions in the help sticky. Plus we don’t want to make posting in ScA an annoying experience for you.Please keep in mind that despite these actions simple question posts are still allowed. For now, we’re just discouraging the posting of them. But we may become more strict about them in future. Final notesWe also want to take this opportunity to thank the users who have been commenting on posts to let the OP know about the help thread. We really appreciate your efforts!We hope that our plan will make sure there are more interesting posts made in the subreddit, and that it’ll improve how much you all enjoy spending time here. We’ll do our best to continue improving the sub.Please let us know what you think! And if you have any other suggestions for reducing simple question posts (well, apart from this), we'd love to hear them :)
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