It just baffles my mind of how some of these places are ran by the mod teams. If it wasn’t for the masses of people that still flock to them I would’ve given up a long time ago (now only check like once every two weeks), but by the evidence they (the users) just aren’t getting the help they need.
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If it makes you feel any better, whoever did that also isn’t a plumber. (511 points)
That’s a bong. Sewer gas bong, specifically. Nice humblebrag.Having one in your home all built in like that, la de da, isn’t this a fancy one… (330 points)
Like 10 mods, and they don’t auto-block “new” people from posting (the post had 103 comments when it was locked). Easy to tell this wasn’t spam and it was a legitimate person looking for advice.
They suggest logging into your “main” account. As if people want to post identifying pictures of their house under an account which might have lots of references for identification. I just wish they knew how much easier it would be to make a lemmy account instead of jumping through Reddit’s hoops, could have a very robust community of tradesmen on here that would attract more people looking for advice.
I would bet that there’s a rule that not only says what you said, but redirects people to something like r/askplumbers or whatever for these kind of posts.
I haven’t used reddit regularly since the API exodus, but I was part of plenty of communities like that. Mods can’t allow exceptions because you’ll get regulars complaining about the rule breaking content and new users complaining that their post was removed.
Like you said, they were mostly professional subreddits, but others had similar rules (like r/churning, but they were extra crazy. They’d require all discussion to be in specific threads so the content was less likely to be indexed by search engines).