New r/Philippines Restrictions Announcement
As many of you know, the r/Philippines community and the moderating team have been heavily hammered by trolls and karma farmers over the past few weeks. With this, we will be implementing new crowd control policies in the subreddit.
A new vote manipulation detector that can flag posts for potential brigading. When a certain post or comment reaches an upvote/downvote threshold within a given time frame, it will be automatically flagged for review. Please note that there is a separate site-wide Reddit filter against vote manipulation, so this is just another layer of protection for the subreddit and its users.
Increased karma requirements as well as account age restrictions before a user can post or comment. We've also adjusted the sensitivity of the user CQS to identify potential spammers or users less likely to contribute positively on Reddit. We will not disclose these filter limits.
Increased subreddit negative karma threshold. Users with defined negative karma will not be able to post on the subreddit.
Increased Automod reports filter before flagging submissions and comments for moderator review. This is to decrease post removal trigger sensitivity and prevent post brigading
We will continue to test and adjust these thresholds as we see fit. We are also working with the Reddit admin team and mods from other Philippines-related subreddits to come up with more ways to combat old and new threats to our community.
We hope that these additional measures will help mitigate bad actors, trolls, and organized groups seeking to discredit and disrupt the r/Philippines subreddit, especially since the national elections are just around the corner.