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Hey all, so you may have noticed recently that people have been posting here about other Honda cars such as Civics, Accords, and so on. Not that this hasn't happened before in the past, but there has been a significant uptick in it happening in the last few months.

Reddit is to blame with this. They changed things so that now when you submit a new post, it will automatically suggest the poster to also submit it to other subreddits. Reddit, in their infinite AI powered wisdom, sees this is a Honda car subreddit and thinks that surely someone having a problem with their Ridgeline that surely the fine folks here on r/HondaInsight can provide... insight.

Anyway, there is no way for us to disable this subreddit being incorrectly suggested to others. What I have done is setup a pair of automations that will try and nag you while creating a post. The first one looks for the word "Insight" in the post, if that word is not present it displays a message telling the poster this subreddit is for the Honda Insight, not other models. My thought process is that if someone sees this message they will figure out to post elsewhere about their Goldwing.

Second, I have it asking for the full 4 digit year of the car, this was mostly due to there being many posts like "how do I change my <x>" with zero information about car and of course the procedure for my 2000 Insight is not even close on someone else's 2021.

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Both of these messages do not block someone from submitting, OP can just ignore them and post anyway should they want to. We of course are not trying to prevent discussions like "Would an Insight or Accord be a better Fit?" either. I did set these up a few weeks ago, and so far I've not seen anymore non-Insight posts so I believe it is working to deter the posters. If you do see someone has posted one anyway, feel free to hit the Report button and that will notify the mod team to check it out.

Howdy all. I’m looking for some feedback from you all regarding how we should handle self-promotion of software, and how we grant permission to allow some to share what they have been working on.

We used to be fairly generous and laid back with granting permission, granting most requests after a simple modmail and a quick review of the product. However, due to the AI boom we started receiving a flood of requests for permission to share what ultimately ended up being low-quality hastily written software, which of course understandably led to many complaints. We stopped accepting new requests for a while so that we could come up with a plan to handle future requests in a fair manner.

Our team has come up with the following requirements, some of which were already part of our old guidelines:

• Applications must be either open source or they must be available in the Microsoft Windows app store. This is mainly for safety reasons. We're not equipped to toughly test software for safety and security, these options allow third parties to check.
• The application must have a permanent free tier. Freemium products are allowed, however limited time trials are not.
• The application must have been publicly available for at least 30 days. We would like to see that it is regularly being updated, maintained, fixed and improved upon.
• The application must provide value to the community.
• The developer must provide proof that their Reddit account is connected to the project.
• Their Reddit account must also be well established with a posting history that is not just related to the promotion of their software.
• Discourse of AI usage - Use of AI to generate code, artwork, descriptions, and so on is permitted, however the descriptions and posts need to disclose at least the use of that, preferably with also disclosing what AI tools were used and what they had generated.

 

Our goal is to keep things fair and allow hard working developers to show off various Windows programs they have worked on, while not allowing the subreddit to be overrun with spam and low-quality slop.

What are your thoughts? Too restrictive? Not restrictive enough? Thank you for your time!

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