IAmA Survey

Continuing verifying - (how...)

Stop verifying altogether.

Requests should stay the same as they are now.

Requests should be made exclusively in the current request list comments.

Requests should be made exclusively as submissions, and there should be no request list.

Requests should not be made at all.

Overall this subreddit is running pretty well. Thanks for all the hard work.

What's it like being a survey? Why is no one asking you questions? Am I misunderstanding this topic?

To everyone reading this: regarding the requests and aggregating them - it's hard to pull them from 3 different places (comments, submissions, spam). There has definitely been an increase in requests in the past few weeks.

Would people be OK with me removing redundant submission requests, e.g. ones that are in the list and/or have been requested a lot before and/or ones that are already Reddit Interviews?

I think more could be done about the huge amount of people making insulting comments about IAmA posters. Such comments often get many upvotes simply because other Redditors agree that the IAmA poster has these negative qualities. However, these comments detract from the genuinely useful info that can be gleaned from people actually asking the IAmA poster questions - the whole point of the subreddit.

I mean, I can think to myself 'Man, that IAma person sounds horrible, I hope I never meet anyone like that', but I realise that writing such a comment in their thread helps noone, and it discourages other people from making their own IAma threads.

Although the subreddit description says "mindless insults are subject to moderation" - I've definitely seen mindless insults garner many upvotes without being moderated (of course that's not to say that no comments are moderated, I'm simply surprised at the amount of comments I've seen that aren't moderated).

For the requests option I am happy with how it is running at the moment, with both submissions and the request list, I didn't see an option for that so I didn't upvote anything.

Edit: Also, I don't see why verification needs to be exclusive to moderators either. If a person posts verification in their original post, like a 6 fingered person holding a Reddit sign, why couldn't that count?

You aren't a very extensive survey.

Would help if there was some way to verify/trust the mods and have some sort of secure way to provide documentation without it being logged. Don't have any ideas, just saying that as somebody who sent some stuff to MMM I'm still hesitant to post any more IAmAs or tell others to. Some more details about how you intend on keeping things private would be nice.

And REQUIRING verification is idiotic (aka the McDonalds guy, which I know you guys already addressed internally) but it does help

Make a standard verification technique and put it on the front page.

Example: "If you would like a gold verification star, please PM 32bites or dearsomething with a picture of yourself showing yourself doing your thing and another with you holding a hello reddit sign".

How about using this to toggle request visibility? (Look in the sidebar)

I'm confused. What is the point of this?

Survey, will you bring back MMM?

The thing about this survey is that it will be biased no matter what you do. In statistics, it's called a response bias. A response bias is when you wait for the answers to come to you, instead of completely randomizing the process.

(I have a stats final in 5 days)

I agree that IAmA Requests shouldn't be exclusive to the verified list.

They're already distinguished from responses through the green text. Plus there seems to be a lack of clarification of what we actually need to do with IAmA Requests.

Why are certain people posting on every request and asking for the request to be made in the official Request List when we already have the green text distinguishing them?

As a suggestion for this subreddit. I think we should keep the current system as it is (green text for requests, blue for responses), but keep the Request List as a list of popular and notable IAmA Request posts, so they don't become unnoticeable after a day. Since a lot of people read the frontpage of IAmA, this will not only keep the initial exposure of IAmA Requests, but give the option to post in the permanent request list.

Verification will only be given if proof is exclusive to moderators.

Am I missing something? If they make their proof public (like the creator of Omegle did), they won't be given verification?

Also, I love this subreddit, thanks for having this survey!

Verification is stupid and marginalizes the posts that don't have gold stars. While I can imagine some people out there even pretending to be something unglamorous for whatever reasons, the text should make it apparent most of the time whether they have legitimacy or not, and they can seek out mods if they want to provide proof within the posting. Celebrities or other specific people should provide provide proof to mods, but solely as a way to keep the posting from being deleted.

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Upvoted.

Can you PLEASE make a rule against requesting specific people?

Can you PLEASE make a rule against requesting specific people?

Can you PLEASE make a rule against requesting specific people?

Everyone can see them, if you add .json to the end of the url and that file will have the data for what you see.

But there are also greasemonkey scripts that do this. I am using Reddit Uppers and Downers.

Here is a sample of how it looks.

its in the source code. there is an monkey app for your firefox

Yes I agree with you, however I think we would need more than two.

But as for mods I trust for sure, I have known desk_rabbit since junior high, Saydrah is extremly nice and verry trustworthy, qgyh2 is qgyh2, and that karmanaut, there's a frood who really knows where his towel is.

What was the recent scammer?