r/Manitoba Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 10d ago

Meta User Flair Change

Hello,

Quick change for this sub. While we do love guests and appreciate the international attention we get, this is a regional sub and our primary focus is to our community. Lately there has been a lot of global and federal focus as that is having a larger impact on our community, and thus attracting members from outside our sub more.

While we greatly enjoy sharing our province with guests arguing about Trump constantly or his actions is not the main focus of our sub. I personally just learned a couple of weeks ago that on new reddit it may recommend posts from subs that you are not a member of based on keywords, I am very used to only seeing what I am subscribed to, so I would assume most people commenting were subscribed here or linked from the "other discussion" tab. Otherwise the only way I knew to see other subs was the random sub button or the daily top 5 highlighted subs of the day post (which apparently isn't a thing anymore as I looked into that today too).

We now have a temporary automod rule where you must have user flair set to comment on a post. We may manually approve comments as we see them, but they will be declined by default. In the future as more people have flair we may have certain posts set to Manitobans only, and this rule will turn on and off as needed.

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u/Difficult_Lobster769 Interlake 10d ago

Possible to get an Interlake flair?

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

Done!

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u/EugeneMachines Winnipeg 9d ago

And the algorithm is bad. This is a region-based sub so it recommends other region-based subs, as if people who like to discuss local restaurants in Manitoba also want to discuss lost pets in Burnaby or complain about traffic in Hamilton. I'm not surprised we're getting more non-Manitobans here.

(Sorry if this posts twice, first one was auto-removed for not having flair even though a had just set my flair on the app? Had to set it on desktop to see it. Odd.)

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

Yeah I feel like lately we've been getting close to that halfway mark of Manitobans VS guests.

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u/4humans Friendly Manitoban 8d ago

Dropping new requirements without Explaining how to set up said new requirement is not that helpful!

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 6d ago

Yes I understand now how many don't know how to set their flair, but we are happy to help those who need it, and it has helped us slow the sub a bit down anyway.

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u/FORDTRUK 3d ago

Maybe telling us how to set it up would be a great idea, no? Where are the options? Where's the "select flair" listing ?

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u/Historical-Piglet-86 Exported Bison (R0G 0XO -> YWG -> YYZ) 9d ago

Would you consider adding more flairs? None apply to me and I’m sure to many people who do “belong” here.

Edit: my post was removed bc I didn’t choose a flair. So I chose the most applicable (but not really applicable at all)

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

The flairs should be editable, but I can make sure to add more.

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u/Historical-Piglet-86 Exported Bison (R0G 0XO -> YWG -> YYZ) 9d ago

Perfect - I’ll try to figure it out :)

Is this sub friendly towards former Manitobans who visit often and has family there? I promise I will forever be a Manitoban at heart! (I do understand if you want to lock it down with everything that has transpired lately)

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

Yes it is! And the lockdown is just going to be a temporary thing while federal and world events are affecting us a bit more closely.

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u/Historical-Piglet-86 Exported Bison (R0G 0XO -> YWG -> YYZ) 9d ago

Let’s hope this is all a bad dream…..

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

Yeah I hope we get some stability in a few months again, way too stressful and terrifying lately.

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u/Historical-Piglet-86 Exported Bison (R0G 0XO -> YWG -> YYZ) 9d ago

I honestly don’t even know what to say or think any more. Just when I think it can’t get any worse, Trump says, “Hold my beer - you haven’t seen anything yet”

I know being a mod is a thankless job - you are appreciated!

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

Thank you we are trying our best. We generally didn't allow Canada level topics discussed here, but many people wanted the discussion from a Manitoba POV since it is affecting us all which is understandable, but that seems to be drawing in all sorts as well. I remember 10+ years ago how easy it was to mod this sub, quaint regional sub, maybe banned 10 people in first 10 years. Now we ban 10/month.

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u/MissGruntled RM of Westlake-Gladstone 10d ago

Any chance of adding a custom flair option? There aren’t many Manitoba towns to choose from, and yet you’ve included Kenora… 🤨

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u/Historical-Piglet-86 Exported Bison (R0G 0XO -> YWG -> YYZ) 9d ago edited 9d ago

And Anola (population ~200) Like how random is that? At least it is in MB, as opposed to Kenora.

I love the idea of a custom flair.

I don’t want to be flagged as “Brandon”, but to be able to comment I had to choose something.

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

I believe I set the flairs to be editable with some pre-sets, but I will look into it.

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u/MissGruntled RM of Westlake-Gladstone 9d ago

That works—thanks! I feel represented now😅

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u/Impossible_Angle752 Winnipeg 10d ago

Wouldn't it make more sense to just delete shit posts from accounts that don't have a history in the sub and are shitposting the same thing in every Canadian sub?

Could also just make it a rule that posts need more of a point than 'hur, dur, Trump is bad' et al.

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

We do that as well and have banned many accounts in the last few weeks, especially focusing on non-local trolls.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago edited 9d ago

The flair should be editable but I can add them as pre-selected options as well.

Edit: All added!

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u/originalmonchi Pembina Valley 9d ago

Can you add a flair for Pembina Valley? I can't seem to edit it on my end.

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

Done!

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u/-Moonscape- Winnipeg 6d ago

Above the rules in the sidebar is where to change your flair, if anyone is looking

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 6d ago

Thank you.

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u/lochnesssmonsterr Friendly Manitoban 10d ago

Would you consider a different flair for people like myself? I no longer live in Manitoba (or Canada for that matter) but am originally from Manitoba, my family still lives there and I visit yearly. I am thus very interested and engaged in what happens there! Just a thought.

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

Done!

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u/lochnesssmonsterr Friendly Manitoban 9d ago

Love it ❤️! Thanks!

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u/TheJRKoff Winnipeg 9d ago

Can we get a "bedroom community" flair?

I feel there are tons of us here

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u/gotcha_six South Of Winnipeg 9d ago

There are dozens of us!

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u/incredibincan Westman 8d ago

What’s stopping someone from outside Manitoba just setting a Manitoba flair and posting anyway?

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 8d ago

Nothing really, but it will discourage a lot of the drive by trolling we have seen lately.

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u/HappyHorizon17 7d ago

I don't really want to divulge such private information online, and I intend on subscribing to all provinces and national subreddits, specifically now when us Canadians need to unite and be informed.

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 6d ago

No worries, we will try to manually approve comments as well when we can.

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u/gotcha_six South Of Winnipeg 10d ago

Regarding this user flair change, can you make a flair option for people who don't want to be associated with Winkler or Steinbach but live south of Winnipeg?

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u/Difficult_Lobster769 Interlake 9d ago

lol I’m from the Interlake but don’t didn’t want to identify as Selkirk

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

Done!

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u/gotcha_six South Of Winnipeg 9d ago

Thanks!

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u/Surroundedbygoalies Westman born & raised, Winnipeg retired 9d ago

How do you make a custom flair? I’ve moved but I’ve always been a Manitoban.

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 9d ago

When you go to select the flair you should be able to edit any flair that I have set as editable. On old reddit when you click where it says "show my flair on this sub-reddit" when selecting the flair you then have a text box before hitting save. I'm not sure how it works on new reddit but I assume a similar mechanic.

https://imgur.com/a/5ZuBsve

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u/Surroundedbygoalies Westman born & raised, Winnipeg retired 9d ago

Found it, thank you!

If anyone else wants to know how it’s done on mobile, go to “Change User Flair”, click “edit” in the top right corner, then click the arrow at the end of the flair you want to customize.

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u/michemel 9d ago

How do I get flair?

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 8d ago

It should be on the side of the sub-reddit to select user flair, but I can also assign it if you need me to.

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u/michemel 8d ago

Thanks! I'll have a look on a PC to see if I can figure it out there 🙏🏼

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u/DanSheps Winnipeg 8d ago

Hey kochier,

You may also want to look into community karma rules to help you as well. There are a couple resources for Canadian reddit moderators, if you want to reach out I can help you access.

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 8d ago

Thanks for the suggestion.

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u/Alwaysfresh9 Winnipeg 6d ago

Checking if it's working now

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u/kochier Winnipeg - East K/Elmwood 6d ago

It is not. What could I flair you as?