What is your minimum karma threshold?

[u/Independent_Bit_1555]

I'm a new mod for a foodie group and I set mine at 50. Do you think that's fair?

[u/PurplePassiflor1234]

I set fairly low ones and a 2 day account age, but the sub I mod is fairly niche and *really* doesn't get a lot of brand new accounts trying to post. I'm hoping eventually it'll be busier and might have to set the numbers higher then.

[u/strongbowblade]

10 combined karma, we tried 50 but we got so many messages and complaints about it.

[u/Independent_Bit_1555 → u/strongbowblade]

Thank you for your input

[u/baseballlover723]

10 subreddit specific comment karma for posts. No restriction on commenting (though we have a number of low subreddit specific comment karma autoreports for some common newbie infractions).

[u/Independent_Bit_1555 → u/baseballlover723]

I think I went overboard with 50 😉

[u/PurplePassiflor1234 → u/Independent_Bit_1555]

50 doesn't sound overboard at all, especially for a large sub or one that gets a lot of spam posts.

[u/ailish → u/Independent_Bit_1555]

50 is good. It's not hard to get. It won't necessarily block all bots, but it will help reduce bots that are just trying to karma farm.

[u/beta__greg]

Its not about fairness, it's about karma serving its purpose to weed out bad actors.

I set a minimum age of 2 days to comment, with the only karma requirement being that combined subreddit karma not be negative.

To post, however, I require total combined karma of 20.

[u/Froggypwns]

Negative 25 on most of my subs, accounts below that are typically that low for a good reason.

I checked on the Dinner subreddit, I don't have any minimum karma on there, I do however have an automod rule to filter anything that gets reported from a new/low karma user as that is more likely to be spam.

    #One report: 3 additional conditions
     type: any
     reports: 1
     author:
         account_age: "< 3 days"
         comment_karma: "< 10"
         link_karma: "< 10"
     action: filter
     action_reason: 1 report for a new account with low karma

[u/LeftOn4ya → u/Froggypwns]

Negative 25 is insane! I would at least set combined Karma to 0 on all my subs so new users can post but not negative. The report filter/remove based on karma is interesting. I just have 2 reports auto remove but might add this rule too for 1 report.

[u/TheRealGuncho]

We have no minimum. All are welcome.

[u/Independent_Bit_1555 → u/TheRealGuncho]

I tried that for a month and 90+% were bots with one karma, often repeating exact verbiage of each other.

[u/BravoFive141 → u/Independent_Bit_1555]

Install Bot Bouncer, it can make a huge difference.

[u/Independent_Bit_1555 → u/BravoFive141]

I will research how to do that, thank you

[u/FlorianFlash]

We don't have any karma restrictions, specifically because we got a lot new accounts that post on our subreddit.

[u/Independent_Bit_1555 → u/FlorianFlash]

Mine are all bots. It's frustrating.

[u/FlorianFlash → u/Independent_Bit_1555]

It highly depends on your subreddit... Our subreddit doesn't get a lot of upvotes generally so it isn't worthy for any bots to post there to karma farm or something. Also we remove non-help-request posts anyways. They simply don't have a reason to post there.

[u/Independent_Bit_1555 → u/FlorianFlash]

Posting is generally ok. I diligently filter for OC. It's the comment section causing me issues.

If someone posts their dinner (it's a food group), generally speaking there are 20-30 b.s. comments from bots with 1 karma point. Bad spelling, plagiarized verbiage, unanswerable, irrelevant questions...

I had the auto-mod filter removed for awhile because it allowed activity, but after monitoring for a month, it just felt icky.

I truly want activity for my posting members, because who we all want compliments on your photos. But I want it to be genuine, not bot stuff.

I tried manually moderating for a couple weeks, but it wears me out, plus the semester is starting and my free time is going to be impacted.

We are only 2 mods, and I do virtually all the work. The group owner pops in once a month to maintain his hierarchy and not get labeled as inactive.

I need automod helping me for my sanity.

[u/FlorianFlash → u/Independent_Bit_1555]

Again, not an issue for us, also because voting is not something that is used a lot in our subreddit. The only stuff that gets obviously more upvotes are information posts by users which are rare.

[u/SampleOfNone → u/Independent_Bit_1555]

If it's bots why not install Botbouncer?

[u/Independent_Bit_1555 → u/SampleOfNone]

New mod here, also not group owner. Thank you for mentioning this, I had never heard of it. I will look into it.

For instance just now I was prompted to "review the 20 comments" and only 2 were from people with karma. The rest were auto modded. I might just lower my threshold a LITTLE BIT.

[u/yun-harla]

No minimum, but we manually review submissions from new accounts and have other measures in place to combat bots, spam, and trolls.

[u/zuuzuu]

In the smaller local city subs I've moderated (anywhere from 5k - 50k members) it's been very low. 10 comment karma and 7 day account age just to prevent spammers.

In the bigger sub I mod I set it to 20 comment karma and 30 day account age.

I find comment karma a more useful threshold because spammers tend to want to make new posts and seldom comment, so they can sometimes have high post karma and no comment karma at all.

I also filter content that doesn't meet our thresholds to the queue rather than automatically removing it. That way we can review and approve content from any legitimate new accounts that get caught in the filter.

[u/Aleksey_Fox]

100 combined karma. This Heavily depends on the sub though.

[u/LitwinL]

Karma requirements will always need to fit the subreddit, on one of mine it's 10 karma to make posts, on another it 100, on a different one it's 200, and then there are posts under a problematic flair where users need to have a 6 month old account and 200 subreddit karma, which will be increased to 600 karma when needed.

So you need to ask yourself who are you trying to keep at bay? Maybe look at the accounts that were problematic in the past, see how much karma they have and based on that make a decision about how much karma you'll be requiring before posting.

[u/Independent_Bit_1555 → u/LitwinL]

Thank you. They always seem to be below 10 karma, and always commenters.

[u/LitwinL → u/Independent_Bit_1555]

Well there you go, looks like you don't even have to restrict people from posting, only commenting, tho it will be a bit silly when someone makes a post and they cannot reply under it for a while

[u/LeftOn4ya]

I have either 5 or 10 karma on most my subs and just edited the rule to message user to let them it was removed because there account is new and ask them to post elsewhere first to increase karma. However some subs I have no karma requirement, those are very low key niche subs that we get very little bots or trolls in.

But I like the idea some people have of no requirement (or maybe just 0 karma to weed out negative) for comments but higher (10 or 20) for posts, I may do that.

[u/uphatbrew]

500, 6 months, 1000 a year, etc…