This subreddit sucks now

**Thank you for this post**. This is a problem for so many major subs now. I can tell you that (speaking only for myself, not the other mods) I *daily* ban many accounts, remove posts and comments, and add terms to our blacklist that I see from these types of posts. I moderate here and r/ecommerce, and if you have spent much time in either, you know that myself and other mods are *very* active. But how do you deal with posts like this that don't really break a rule, and aren't 'directly' promotional? What criteria do we use to separate such a spam post from those who are legit users seeking advice? I have considered recommending that we ban *all* mention of apps / addons, but this may be too restrictive. I have also considered raising our minimum karma requirement from 10 to like 100 (or more) in an effort to block these types of accounts from posting at all. I don't feel that *more* moderators are needed, but perhaps stricter posting requirements?? Take the sub private? I and the other mods are very open to ideas. I see this too, and the absolute deluge of AI posts has made being a moderator far more frustrating (and time consuming) than it used to be. The best thing anyone can do is **report - report - report**. I go through the report log sometimes up to 10 or 12 times a day in both of these subs (especially weekdays), and nearly every reported post or comment is removed (they are all reviewed before doing so). If you think there are a lot of these types of post here and r/ecommerce, you should see the huge amount of posts / comments that get blocked or removed quickly - so our automod *does* help. Your post and concern is spot-on, and I share your frustration. And yes, the vast majority of them are clearly from countries outside NA and Europe (take that however you will...). **edit** - I want to sticky your post for a bit to see if we can get some good community feedback on this issue, r/legrolls. Thank you. **edit 2** - I just became aware of the r/ShopifyApps sub - we could remove *every* post (or select posts within defined parameters) here that talks specifically about app and send them to that group. Just spitballin' here, throwing out ideas... That would at least give mods the legs to remove posts like OP mentions and clean the group up quite a bit. **FINAL EDIT** - Thank you to everyone who has responded so positively here; we do have a great community and we clearly need to do some tweaks. I am removing this post as an announcement (sticky post), but there will be a follow-up post soon to put some new ideas before the community for comments and votes. Some positive changes will be coming, rest assured!

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Have to agree. They are marketing channels now for apps made in India.

At least the sub is moderated. The best Shopify community I was in was on FB, but all posts are moderated and the admin doesn't really care about it anymore 🤷🏼‍♀️ Also, lol Facebook. Ultimately, managing any online community is a lot of unpaid work. Not too many people have the combination of good sense *and* unlimited free time to handle one with so many members.

80% of the people on here are selling something shopify

You need to visit r/smallbusiness… it’s worse

This is only going to get worse, as the scummy marketers figure it out. It's like the early days of SEO except the fight is over associations, mentions, comparisons, solves etc on Reddit and socials to (hopefully) get sucked up by the llms and be regurgitated as fact later. I would suggest: Add some rules like commenting requires history visible, and minimum karma. Posting requires two from visible history, minimum karma, or minimum account age (from before llms). Thinking being that; visible comments makes it easier to spot someone shilling. Add a specific report option for "suspected AI manipulation spam"

lol at “Curious to see” as that is a ChatGPT signature phrase