Hi guys and gals,

Just thought I'd put this out here, since things are a bit hectic at the moment.

1. There's a bit of a backlog in vetting and verifying new users and posts - this should clear up within a few days (dealing with a queue of about 200 where intense scrutiny is needed).

2. Modmail notifications appear to be messed up at the moment. Reddit recently changed how they deal with modmail, like making it work more like the chat feature. In my case, I receive zero notifications at the moment about incoming modmail, so I manually have to check if something came in. If you sent something recently - I'm sorry I couldn't act on it fast enough. I'm working through the list. The majority of issues are about false-positives on clickbait, which I usually act on immediately, and you guys are the ones who are taking the brunt of this issue at the moment.

3. Reddit also very recently implemented a 'Curate your Profile' feature, where you can opt to hide or limit your post and comment history. This makes it near impossible for moderators to accurately make judgement calls on the veracity, authenticity and trustworthiness of a poster's account. If we encounter such restrictions on your profile (this is relating to content creators only, not commenters, btw) we will summarily remove and ban your account.

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That's about it for the moment. I'm also working on updating the rules to be more streamlined, having clearer removal reasons posted, fixing the absolutely frustrating and wonky clickbait filter (which is my fault because I'm an idiot when it comes to programming) and a few more things to make everything run smoother.

I really appreciate all the posters and commenters who make this such a great community.

Cheers 🤙

Please follow the links below for each topic (or just scroll down to see them in the comments):

1. Profile trustworthiness

2. Verification process

3. Why isn’t my post showing up?

4. Why was my post removed?

5. The road ahead

Quick tl;dr for the entire thread:

• OBSF is open to sellers and non-sellers alike.

• Any form of advertising is forbidden.

• Sending people to your profile or asking for DM’s will get your post removed.

• Click-, pity-, engagement-bait titles are strictly filtered and actioned.

• The clickbait filter has a lot of false-positives – don’t delete your post – we’ll get to it soon.

• We thoroughly evaluate your account history and behaviour.

• We’re going to go ‘approved’ and ‘verified’ only pretty soon, but don’t stress!