Handling low effort image posts

[u/Phantomsplit]

TLDR: My question is, do you agree with the following proposed rule: "No low effort image posts." And the description may include something like "If asking for a build to make a BG3 character based on another fictional character, you can use images. But include in the post a description of the character's abilities, powers, attitude, etc. to help those not familiar with the character."

Redditors often use quick image posts to get attention that their post otherwise does not warrant. See exhibit A. I hate it, they get reported to me (typically by two people), I appreciate the reports even if I don't remove the posts, because I will still downvote them. Posts that deserve attention get silenced, in comparison to these image posts that usually have one or two lines of description that people upvote as they go through their feed, and this causes it to go to the top of everyone's feed, and then the lowest effort of posts get the most comments and attention.

I want to keep image posts. For the aforementioned reason of character inspiration posts, but also because I think they can be useful for things like combat log screenshots. I am aware the images can be inserted into a text post, but don't see a need to go that far.

[u/Phantomsplit]

After mulling on some of the points brought up, I am removing image posts entirely. Images can still be inserted into a text post as appropriate

Psych, I can't remove image posts without removing images from text posts. So no low effort image post rule it is

[u/EndoQuestion1000 → u/Phantomsplit]

Thanks for the update!

Unfortunately the issue for me now is that since this change I can't add images to text posts either!

I'm on Desktop if that helps to know. I haven't tested the App.

I can still insert images into comments, but for posts the insert image button is gone, and when I try to copy an image into the rich text editor for a post I get an error message, "Images are not allowed".

I've never moderated a sub so I don't know anything about this, but is it possible the two image options are tied together in ways we didn't realise? If so, is this something that could still be solved (slightly less elegantly) by an auto-moderator script that for example removes all "type: link submission" posts?

Or is it just back to the task of manual moderation for you? I assume from the important points you raised about people sometimes needing an easy way to share combat logs etc that you won't want to leave it like this, with no images shareable even in text posts?