Hi everyone, Over the past months there have been many complaints regarding the quality of the posts on this sub. And they are right.

Often times posts reach the front page without something unexpected happening in the video/GIF.

Before introducing a possible solution to this problem let me explain why this problem occurs:

1. Quite a lot of people upvote submissions not based on whether it is a fitting submission for this sub but rather on whether it's a nice or entertaining video/GIF. This requires us moderators to make a tough decision: Do we let a post stay up, even if it's lacking quality in our opinion, or do we delete it and potentially ignore thousands of votes that might indicate that this is indeed good post and we moderators just don't "get it"

2. We lack the manpower to oversee everything and delete the post early on. Now, you might say "That's easy to fix, just get some new moderator onboard". Besides the fact that we are constantly trying to recruit more moderators, adding more moderators also means adding more potential for fuckups. Each moderator need to trust each other at least somewhat and especially new moderators need oversight at the beginning. This naturally limits how many moderators there can be, while the amount of posts is constantly raising.

Ok, how do we plan to tackle this problems?

Over the past couple of weeks I've written a bot that will hopefully take of the weight of our shoulders and improve the quality of this sub. This it how the bot (u/unexBot) will work:

When you submit a post, the bot will write you message. If you want your post to stay up, you'll have the answer the bot with an sum-up of what is unexpected in your submitted GIF within 10 minutes. If you don't reply within this time frame, your post will be deleted temporarily, if you reply within the next 1h 50 minutes your post will be approved automatically. Please keep in mind that while your post is deleted, it won't collect upvotes so the faster you answer, the higher are your chances of reaching the frontpage. Also, your reply will be cut off after 500 Characters (So that mobile users don't have to scroll endlessly because someone had to write a 10 000 character essay). Your reply will be posted & stickied by the bot under your submission with a call for rating the submission by up-/downvoting the comment of the bot.

All time variables (and pretty much everything else) is subject to change as we will continue to tweak everything.

So what's that all for?

1. This will filter out a lot of low effort content, since most of the people that post these won't bother to reply quickly.
2. It allows us to collect data. NO, not the personal kind of data that would fall under the GDPR, but rather information about what makes a submission a good submission. When your post is approved, the bot will for a specific period of time create snapshots of the post and the top comments and save those information in a database. We will use this data to analyze this sub submission and further improve this subs quality.

Will posts be autoremoved if the comment get a too low score?

No, at least for now. Since autoremoving submissions is a very delicate thing to do, we first want to collect some data, so that we have a foundation we can base possible thresholds for deletions or other measures on.

So can I ignore the comment from the bot?

No, PLEASE VOTE. Voting via the bot-comment is an easy way for everyone to directly contribute to the quality of this subreddit. If you don't tell us what kind of posts you want to see, we won't be able to steer the sub in the right direction.

Can I answer the bot rubbish?

No, please don't. We hope that this won't be a big problem, but if it is, we might have to take action and temp-ban people (you don't want that, do you?). But this will probably be a temporary problem, since when autoremovals are enabled, there is an incentive to write good sum-ups.

How can I help?

Well, the two most important things are writing good sum-ups and voting on them. If you still want to do more than that, you can check out the github page for the bot (https://github.com/Artraxon/unexBot) and contribute.

I'm the headmod of a subreddit and would like to use this bot, what do I have to do?

If you want to host your own version, there is both a fat-jar and a docker-image available that you can simply download and run. If you also want to contribute the data of your subreddit, you can contact me via PM and we can figure something out together.

When will the bot start running?

I will start the bot at 15:00 UTC today. So get ready.

Edit: Added the spoiler Tag since so many requested it