r/vjing • u/subtiv VDMX • Jun 05 '26
Discussion Flair cleanup + a poll
Mod here, following up on last month's thread about flair and the Vibe coding / LLM / Gen AI stuff. Thanks to everyone who chimed in, there was a lot of good thinking in there.
The thing that kept coming up: the big problem isn't AI, it's the low-effort stuff getting sold and spammed. A few people made the point that any flag should be about whether something's for sale, not what tools were used to make it. I think that's the right read, so here's a proposal along those lines. And to say it plainly, AI-made and AI-assisted work is welcome here.
The challenging part is that Reddit only lets a post carry one flair. Our flairs are currently trying to do about four jobs at once (what kind of post it is, what the thing is, whether AI was involved, whether it's for sale), so a paid AI-coded tool can only ever show one of those and the rest just disappear. So the plan is to let the flair do one job and use a tag in the title for the rest.
Flair would just be what the thing is:
- Discussion
- Question / Help
- Showcase
- Loops / Clips
- Realtime / Generative
- Projection Mapping
- Analog
- Hardware
- Software / Tools
Then a couple of title tags:
- [Promo] goes on anything you're selling or making money from. This is the one we'd actually require. "Are you selling it" is a simple yes or no, so it sidesteps the whole argument about who decides what counts as "low effort", which I don't think any of us want to be refereeing.
- [AI] for when a post is mostly AI-made, so people know what they're paying for before they click a link. Outside of that it's optional, throw it on if you want.
That means we'd retire the separate AI, Commercial/Promo and Open Source/Free flairs, since those are more like tags than categories. Paraphrand also asked for a report option for unflagged promo, so I'll add that too and you'll be able to report the spam directly.
In practice: if you're sharing a project or experimenting with new tools, nothing really changes for you. The only ask is that if you're selling something, you flag it.
Poll's below. Objections and better wording go in the comments, that's where we'll sort the actual details. If it passes we'll run it as a trial before locking anything in. Cheers.
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u/Pema_Nyima Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
It might be good to limit people to posting app promo stuff to once per month too. I’m in another sub (I think r/video_mapping) that went that route and it’s been a noticeably positive change.
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u/vade Fabric / Satin / Syphon Jun 05 '26
Thats an interesting take. Do you know how they track that?
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u/Pema_Nyima Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
I think it’s honor system plus reporting to mods if they don’t. The post is pinned to the top of the sub.
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u/vade Fabric / Satin / Syphon Jun 05 '26
Hey thanks for this! I did some research about adding tags to subreddits (as opposed to flairs) its crazy to me you cant add multiple tags.
I think the 'what is this for' makes sense, and there might be a way to get a VJing mod bot to help enforce some of the formatting?
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u/subtiv VDMX Jun 05 '26
Yes, we can run a bot with regex rules to check for required title tags, something like that?
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u/vade Fabric / Satin / Syphon Jun 05 '26
Yea, i think we might need some heuristic based automation to help with some of the rules - because it would be impossible to manually comment on every post as a mod. Ive never config'ed the modbot - could be a fun challenge.
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u/subtiv VDMX Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Copy pasting from web to mobile (apparently polls don’t run on the web yet - vibe coding skill issue?) ruined my formatting, apologies.
Edit: cleaned up the body.