Inter-subreddit collaborative posting.

I'm not sure if you ever considered allowing someone to post in multiple subreddit

s

on the site before

They do allow that. It's called crossposting

but during my time on reddit

you've probably used crossposting

and a within a segment of communities that often collaborate

crossposting

and work together I feel like reddit makes it unnecessarily complex to collaborate

not really

and tap into audiences from multiple related subreddits

like with crossposting?

that may collaborate with each other for a common goal.

Well there was that "Reddit 101" thing that was crossposted everywhere, that seemed to work out A-OK


Say there's a NBA match happening between Team A and Team B. Team A will make a post about the game on /r/TeamA, Team B will do it on /r/TeamB and /r/NBA will make one too.

This doesn't even need crossposting, just thread links

  • Pick a common ground (/r/NBA) and post all games there

  • post a link to that thread in /r/teamA /r/teamB /r/teamCoco whatever

  • Set Automoderator to remove all comments in those other threads, and tell users that their comments must go in the /r/NBA thread

  • you can also obviously automate posting of threads to /r/teamcoco /r/teambobo whatever whenever a post is made to /r/nba (hell, I'd be surprised if you couldn't automate the /r/nba posts from an RSS feed of games)

  • done deal


As such I came up with the idea of Inter-subreddit posts whereby if such an event is happening where the events are live and have a multiple relevant dedicated subreddit then it can be aggregated into one post that appear on all relevant approved subreddits. Ideally it'd work like this: Mods of /r/TeamA create a thread "Team A vs Team B" Thread set for XX:XX AM/PM. Mods of /r/TeamA send /r/TeamB and /r/NBA a Inter-subreddit post request to display the thread on their subreddit. Mods vote on the request and accept/deny request. If approved post will appear on all approved subreddits and regardless of a user posting on /r/TeamA, /r/TeamB, or /r/NBA they will be curated into the one thread which will appear on all approved subreddits for collaborative, centralised and defragmented discussion.

This would require significant changes to how posts are coded and will most likely not happen, plus it's pointless as (noted above) this can be done without needing an overhaul

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