On Flairs and How to Use Them

As an update to our prior posts on our poll concerning selfies, flairs are now available and we are asking everyone to start using them. To encourage this and remind everyone of this, we have set up AutoModerator to make a comment on every post.

ETA: To summarize the cause of this change, we conducted a poll because several users expressed a desire for us to "handle" the selfies. A good number of users felt put off of using the subreddit because selfies get the most upvotes and often fill the top of the subreddit's page. We took a vote, and the winner was post flairs which would allow us to keep the rules the same and allow selfies to be posted while also allowing users who so desire to filter selfies out of their "feed."

These flairs offer other benefits and topics will likely be expanded to allow further use. This post will be updated accordingly to serve as a guideline. Below are details on the flairs and ways you can use the flairs to filter posts on this subreddit.

---

#Available Flairs

####Discussion Flairs

• SurgeryTalk - For surgery-related discussion posts. (Questions, experience-sharing, milestones, etc.)
• ProductReview - For product review posts. (Binders, packers, prosthetics, etc.)
• Discussion - Catch-all for all other non-photo posts. (Ex. Links to articles, text posts sharing info or asking a question, etc.)

####Picture Flairs

• Selfie - For selfies and other self-images posts
• Meme - For memes/humorous image posts.
• SurgeryPic - For surgery-related picture posts.
• OtherPhoto - Catch-all for all other photos.

####Mod-Use-Only Flairs

• Recurring - Flair for Recurring threads that AutoModerator posts.
• ModPost - Flair for ModPosts.

---

#About Using Flairs to Filter Posts

Subdomain filtering links are in the sidebar. These links maintain the look and feel of the subreddit while filtering out specific flairs.

###Search links

For convenience, below are links that are comparable to the subdomain filtering options. These can be used by mobile users to filter posts in a similar manner.

####Includes Surgery

• Discussion only

• Pictures Only

• Just No Selfies

• Surgery Only

####Excludes Surgery

• Discussion only

• Pictures Only

• Selfies Only

• Just No Surgery

---

###How to filter posts by flairs using the search box

For examples, type the following into the sidebar search box, and check "limit my search to r/ftm":

• "flair:Selfie" = will display only posts with the flair of Selfie

• "NOT flair:selfie" = will display everything but posts with the flair of Selfie

#####You can string flairs together using "OR."

• "flair:Discussion OR flair:ProductReview" = will display only posts with the flair of either Discussion or Product Review

• "NOT flair:Discussion OR NOT flair:ProductReview" = will display every post except those with the flair of either Discussion or ProductReview

#####You can add other terms with the flairs to narrow posts further

• "flair:Discussion Reddit" = will display posts with the flair of Discussion with the word Reddit in the title

• "flair:Discussion NOT Reddit" = will display posts with the flair of Discussion without the word Reddit in the title

---

Link to prior stickied post