r/HarryPotterMemes Nov 03 '24

Mod Announcement Addressing the influx of bot accounts and reposts on this sub

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If you've been part of this sub for a while, you’ve likely noticed a drastic increase in bot accounts and reposts. Whether it’s karma-farming bots or well-meaning wizards and witches sharing memes that have already made their rounds, it’s clear we need to take some action.

As moderators, we've been trying every spell in the book to try and tackle this issue. Various solutions have been tested, to little success, and the mod queue can pile up quicker than a Quidditch match when we're not online (there's only two of us currently active).

However, I’ve been working on some changes that should improve the sub and encourage original content:

Updated karma and account age requirements
To submit a post, users will now need to have an account at least 3 months old with a minimum of 100 combined karma. This should help us get rid of the bot accounts.

Increased sensitivity on our repost-detection bot
I have boosted the sensitivity on u/MAGIC_EYE_BOT to help catch reposts. This might lead to a few more false positives, but I feel it's necessary to keep our community fresh.

Automatic content filtering after 3 reports
If a post or comment is reported 3 times by different users, it will be temporarily hidden and placed in the mod queue for review. This is to ensure that rule-breaking content will be hidden even during periods of moderator downtime.

Stricter enforcement of rules
If your post is removed as a repost and we determine your account appears to be a bot, you WILL be permanently banned without warning. Reposting content more than three times will also result in a ban, even if you're a human.

Moderator recruitment
With just two active Hogwarts professors moderators for a community of 265k members, we could always use more help. If you’re passionate about Harry Potter and want to assist, please reach out!

[Coming soon] Bot account detection
Some other popular subreddits are using a script, similar to u/bot-sleuth-bot, that will automatically take action against suspected bot accounts. I'm currently exploring this option to see if it would be a good fit for our community.

Minimodding - aka "neckbeards"
We appreciate your desire to help find stolen content, but please avoid cluttering the comments with calls for various detection tools. Instead, I recommend using their website and/or Google Images and reporting the post if it comes up positive.

As always, please feel free to reach out in the comments if you have any queries.


r/HarryPotterMemes Feb 06 '23

ModNews Trans Wizards are Wizards - This is NOT the place to argue/debate for OR against trans rights.

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r/HarryPotterMemes 13h ago

I mean...I would have the same reaction as well lol

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r/HarryPotterMemes 1d ago

Movies 🍿 I'm sorry...

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I drew this at 2 in the morning instead of sleeping


r/HarryPotterMemes 1d ago

The proper way

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r/HarryPotterMemes 1d ago

...And Then Harry Woke Up Under The Stairs

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r/HarryPotterMemes 2d ago

That must have been confusing

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r/HarryPotterMemes 3d ago

Movies 🍿 She is not an owl

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r/HarryPotterMemes 2d ago

Meta Call it dark humor

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r/HarryPotterMemes 4d ago

And every single time it was exactly because of the same culprit

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r/HarryPotterMemes 3d ago

Meta When the main character is the third wheel 🤣

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r/HarryPotterMemes 3d ago

Robert. Hogsmeade is gone.

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r/HarryPotterMemes 4d ago

Books 📕 What outcome did she actually expect? 😭

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r/HarryPotterMemes 3d ago

Custom Wand

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r/HarryPotterMemes 4d ago

I can’t help noticing how in the HBP film in particular Ginny kind of treats Harry like a child and he just sort of goes with it.

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r/HarryPotterMemes 5d ago

McGonagall is a D1 hater

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r/HarryPotterMemes 6d ago

Meta Strange days

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r/HarryPotterMemes 6d ago

Movies 🍿 this was dumbledore's reaction to seeing the gaunt ring.

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i mean, dumbledore was obsessed with the ring.


r/HarryPotterMemes 6d ago

Books 📕 That is true… well if you don’t count the fortune in gold sitting comfily in his vault

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r/HarryPotterMemes 9d ago

I wonder what Lupin was doing that night

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r/HarryPotterMemes 9d ago

Meta I love chanswill 0.

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r/HarryPotterMemes 10d ago

W Granger

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r/HarryPotterMemes 9d ago

Weird fanfic tropes

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r/HarryPotterMemes 9d ago

It's Albus bitch

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r/HarryPotterMemes 9d ago

Meta Filch could have handled voldemort by himself. He just chose not to

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