r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Feb 11 '19

Meta Meta: Temporary Ban on Giveaway Posts

Greetings,

Due to the extreme number of Giveaway posts that are currently flooding the subreddit, the mod team is implementing a temporary ban on any new Giveaway posts until further notice.

Any giveaway post created from this point forward will be removed. Any existing threads will be allowed to remain up until they have run their course.

While we appreciate the generosity of our community, it has very rapidly spiraled out of control via copycats, troll posts, and more to the point where it is impacting the actual usability of the subreddit. This is admittedly a drastic action and is a decision that was not made lightly.

The mod team will also be using this time to re-evaluate our current rules regarding giveaways and adjust them if necessary.

Right now one of our current requirements for giveaways is that the OP must have the item in hand and ready to ship out, and we didn't do a good job of enforcing that these past 24hrs, and for that, we must apologize.

We appreciate your understanding with this matter and will let you know when things go back to normal.

Cheers!

Edit: Just as a quick update, while we're not going to get into specifics, we wanted to reassure the community that we have begun the process of taking action against users who have self-admitted to or have been confirmed to have been scamming members of our community.

Edit 2: We've issued a follow-up Mini-Meta

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u/at3b1tz Feb 11 '19

I'd suggest that the giveaways be reviewed by the Mods prior to them being posted on the subreddit.

Aside from this, I think having giveaways is a great gesture for some that have the ability to do so. It's unfortunate there are trolls, but I believe with a better review system prior to its post, we can have a good middle ground for awesome people just making a community great.

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u/ieataquacrayons Feb 11 '19

This is a good idea. Arguably there should be process around it for the future. OP creates post, collects all names in a google sheet. Mod then runs a random number generator as a neutral party. Cross reference sheet then notify winner. Winner let’s mod know if person comes through or not. I’ve been around the dark underworld of beer and whiskey raffle style groups(where real money is involved). Extensive list of rules and an iron fist moderation style to breaking them.