Thoughts On Sub Rules?

Just recently joined, but my take:

If I want to see pictures of feet in a hammock, I could just scroll through advertisements.

Seeing what types of things other people use is interesting because I might learn some new tricks.

Pictures of beautiful wild scenery are never a bad thing to have in my feed.

I'm okay with sticking to more camping oriented pictures, and certainly encouraging discussion of hammock-camping-related discussion.

Just a hammock in the backyard by some guy with a beer doesn't really cut it, as you say, it's nice and all but there's r/hammocks for that.

Single pictures are fine, but you're correct they can be flooded, so the description requirement would make sense if it's a picture-ish discussion on an off time. Maybe have weekends only allow single picture, or one weekday...I dunno. Just to limit it a bit.

I'm new to this sub, but on r/kayaking I personally think there are way too many low effort posts and it has made the sub grow kinda stale in some regards. At the same time, it does increase engagement and posting which can help to grow the subreddit

I'd say either keep it as it is or expand the description requirement.

Either way, I definitely don't want more low effort single picture posts. When subs get watered down like that it loses its purpose.

The majority of posts here need nothing more than a single reply with a link to a youtube video. It's like folks skip google and go straight to "create post".

But yes, keep the single picture rule or make it even more stringent.

Just make the sub's banner read "Yes, you need an underquilt or pad in order to stay warm. Please use the search function"

I like the rule of needing to include a description of gear used for single pic posts (but it just seems to be a pinned post and not in the rules list). I think adding gear descriptions for any post that isn’t discussion based is a good idea too.

I've been super busy with school and that's about to come to end after next week. I'd be more than happy to sit down and work out a wiki/faq, at least help get the ball rolling.

I'm ok with single pictures, but I agree I want to see actual camping with that...

No single pictures doesn't make any sense to me, but the additional requirement of it not being a low effort post does make sense.

Relative newbie hammock camper, and relative newbie to reddit.

Personally, I enjoy the bulk of what gets posted in this subreddit. I feel like there is something I can take away from most of the threads (sometimes I take away a ton). I've also made a few posts; I try to honor the spirit of the single picture post rule, and include some details on something I struggled with, something I learned, and/or something that worked for me, in hopes that I'm providing some value to others.

I agree that a flood of "look at me lounging in my hammock in my backyard!" would water down the value of this sub for me, but I'm perfectly capable of skipping past those posts.

I chose "Keep rules as they exist", because I think you're doing a bang up job with this sub, people seem to mostly follow the spirit of its intent, and I think it's pretty awesome as-is.

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I vote for getting rid of pictures posts. You can post a link to imgur, but trip reports don't seem that interesting. Pictures of a technique or to show a problem are useful. But I skip right over trip reports or pics of hangs. Seems like an upvote grab.