CCIP-033 – Introduce the [Serious] tag

Problem

Comment sections are often filled with trite, frivolous replies that do not contribute to discussion. Some of this is motivated by moon farming but the problem certainly predates moons.

For example, when someone asks "Why do you think the prices are crashing" the comments are sure to be filled with the tried and true joke of "Prices are dropping because I just bought!".

Solution

This proposal is to implement an optional tag in titles for post authors to use, similarly to how this is done on r/AskReddit here. If the author of the post wants a comment section without these types of jokes, memes, and other 0 value replies, they can include the [Serious] tag anywhere in their title. This will allow for stricter filters and enforcement of the comment section by mods and bots, and hopefully higher standards when users are voting on comments too.

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Types of restricted content

• Comments may include a joke, meme, or generic reply only if this part could be omitted and the rest of the comment would still meet quality standards
• No GIFs
• All other subreddit rules apply, but may be more strictly enforced
• Automod will leave a comment in all [Serious] posts to remind people what type of post it is and the rules around it

Types of restricted content and enforcement methods are subject to change based on community feedback, governance polls, and moderator discretion, but these are some basic [Serious] post rules to get us started.

In the future we could consider ideas for [Serious] posts like:

• Higher moon weight for comments
• Only allowing users with >10 moons balance to leave top-level comments (or other karma/age filters)
• Requiring a higher character count for comments
• No emojis
• Serious threads could be exempt from CCIP-021 sorting
• Special automatic flair for [Serious] posts
• Best [Serious] post of the month

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The Serious tag idea was most recently proposed by u/SquatDeadliftBench in the meta sub here. (Distinguished to make this post ineligible for moons)

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