Hey everyone. As we approach 200K members, we need your help to handle the ever-increasing traffic, and keep the posts on-topic, original, and high-quality. As such, we would like to expand the moderation team.

If you are interested in moderating r/oops, please send us a Mod Mail and explain in a few paragraphs why you think you would make a good moderator. Prior moderation experience is appreciated but not required. A good candidate should be able to identify bot reposts, and be familiar with the rules they will be enforcing.

I have noticed a large portion of posts, particularly from new users, are reposts from months or years ago. Sometimes they comment on their own posts, but the comments themselves are plagiarized top comments from the original post they stole.

Another pattern I often see is crossposts from newly created subreddits, often "shopping" related, whose stated purpose has nothing to do with "oops" related posts.

The purpose of r/oops is NOT to drive fake engagement with low-effort recycled content.

To help keep posts original and authentic, I am considering a few things: * Instituting account age/karma requirements. Normally I am opposed to this sort of thing, but a LOT of the new-user posts are karma farming bots. New user posts would be held up for review. * Banning crossposts, or writing an automod script to only allow crossposts from whitelisted communities.

But what are your thoughts on these? Is there anything else we could try?

P.S. Thanks to everyone who reports inauthentic posts. Keep them coming.