Posted by cumbunfunton | archived on April 29, 2022, 8:16 p.m. | 🚫 Improperly formatted title
## Oneliners Members of the community have been highly vocal about posts that have had very little written in the body, how much more successful well-written posts are, and that the feed is better to navigate now that low-quality posts are removed. With that, oneliners crop up every day and provide barely any context to the readers. In addition to these posts getting removed automatically, I have banned users for writing them. Therefore in May, I will be automating this process so any post with less than 100 characters in the body will automatically receive a 31-day ban, of which the worse offenders will receive a permanent ban. ## Verification Verified Members is a big subject, and before jumping to conclusions I have not made any decisions or going to implement anything in the short term. But, from talking to many of you about the pain points you have from using this sub, many of the roads lead to the same place (further defined below). **Anyone can have any number of Reddit accounts.** This leads to: - Serial catfish/sellers - Ban and rule evasion - False negatives, i.e. calling out a genuine person as a fake - General lowering of the confidence in the community Thinking about verification at a higher level is simply saying "it is a fact that this person belongs to this account, and what they claim is verified to be true". Now what this means for the future, I don't know but it will be a slow iteration of experiments and updates over the year to shape exactly what we need to solve this problem. Again, I am not stating I have an implementation in mind, but this clearly is the root of many issues we experience and will be an area to focus on. ## The Archive Just for everyone to know, as stated in a previous update the history of a user is tough for me to see, basically if it's deleted from Reddit then it's like it never existed. So I have been archiving all of the posts. Right now that is not public, but is a hugely useful tool for me to use, and want people to know that it is happening. ## Finally All is looking good in the feed, I notice over in GBr4r that we got a shout-out for how the community has stepped up over the last few months, so thank you to those acting in good faith, and happy to hear more success stories in April. Mods ------- ### LondonR4R Problems Here is a further definition of some of the problems we are facing, and how they relate to people having multiple accounts. Feel free to comment either if you feel it is accurate or needs changing. #### It's a sausage fest As a straight man, I want to meet women for mutual and consensual experiences, but it is hard to get noticed as there is a large number of other men looking to do the same. Therefore people who seek to exploit this desire, scammers, catfish, fantasists, etc. have one place to go to express their malicious intent. And even though these people get banned for their bad faith actions, they can just create a new account and continue to do the same. This leaves me feeling that it is a bit of a time-wasting exercise posting in LondonR4R, but also a risk to my persona. #### ... by Anon As a member of LondonR4R, I want to meet someone for a mutual and consensual experience in an anonymous way, and so will use a throwaway account to post. But my activity is seen as suspicious because it has the same attributes as a bad-faith actor, such as: - New account - Low Karma - Just being a Female Therefore, I feel that communicating myself as being genuine is compromised by the environment itself. #### Or is this just fantasy As a man looking to explore my bi side, I want to meet other men for mutual and consensual experiences. But when engaging with either people who post or a reply to my own post, they can end up giving me the run around because there are men who like the idea of having the experience with another man but have no interest in doing so IRL. Therefore, people who are looking to exploit this desire will create new accounts when their reputation is shown to be against the shared purpose of LondonR4R. This leads me to feel that engaging in this community is a time-wasting experience, and does not fill me with confidence. #### Spray and pray As a straight female, I want to find a respectful man to have "no strings attached" meetings with whilst feeling safe doing so. But, it's hard to find the right guy as expectations are completely misaligned with reality and won't respect my boundaries and requirements, e.g. shooting their shot, unsolicited photos, expectations of sex, not in London, etc. This makes the whole experience overwhelming and not confident that I will meet someone appropriate.