[META] Introducing "Players Only" Mode on Popular Posts

[u/yousmelllikebiscuits]

Hey everyone,

Sometimes posts from r/baseball reach r/all or r/popular, which means they’re suddenly visible to a much bigger audience outside our usual community. While that’s great exposure, it often brings in spam, trolling, and low-quality comments from non-users of r/baseball that derail discussion and take away from our primary user's ability to interact with and discuss the post.

To help keep conversations thoughtful, on-topic, and more available to you all, we’ve introduced "Players Only" mode. Think...."Players Only Meeting" but just for our sub. Here’s how it works:

• Identified posts will be marked with a "Players Only" flair
• Only regular contributors to r/baseball (measured by subreddit karma) can comment while the mode is active.
• Comments from accounts below that threshold will be held for review and approved if not rule-breaking.

Our goal is to keep r/baseball a space for good, on-topic discussion for our primary userbase and protect it from spam, trolling, and rule-breaking from users who come here to do harm or cause chaos. We intend to enable this mode for when a post trending outside the sub, but we may also apply it to other posts if we think it’s necessary to protect the discussion and prevent more extreme modes of moderation.

Thank you for being part of this community and we look forward to great discussion!

-- with love, the mods

Edit: clarified that comments from non-players will be held for review rather than being automatically removed forever.

Want to check your subreddit karma for r/baseball? Navigate to your profile on http://old.reddit.com and click "show karma breakdown by subreddit" on the right hand side.

[u/WabbitCZEN]