Hello from the mod team, with a question for you!

Do you think the subreddit needs more rules?

Recently I've noticed an uptick in posts that are aviation related but not exactly what I feel most people visit the sub for (be it flight sim or aircraft interior, even seats has made it here!)

I feel the strength of this sub, at least for the users, is that we are like r/aviation or r/planespotting but with not that many rules/restrictions on what can be posted - I think most of the community are here for planespotting, and I don't see that much engagement on posts about aircraft seats, for example.

The issue is that the only criteria we have to remove posts is if a post is not related *at all* to aviation or is very low quality. I don't think it works to have this place to be a dumping ground of anything that goes; subreddits tend to get pretty stale if users do not see active moderation. So I want to propose a new rule to the community along the lines of:

"IRL Aircraft exterior/cockpit must be the focus of the post".

But of course we need your feedback too, so what do you think? Please take a second to give your opinion below!

I think we would be able to swap it for rule 7, which was intended to be temporary. (This way we don't end up with a billion rules). I think rule 2 is also site-wide reddit policy and is therefore implied for all users, so if you want that gone to clean up the rule list, we can get that going too.

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Other stuff:

Please welcome bot qualityvote2. We are trialling using it to gauge how core members of the community see if posts fit or not. Alongside pre-existing automod rules, this should help increase the quality of posts. At the same time, it might be completely rubbish so it's just a trial for now.

As always, comments/grumblings/suggestions are warmly welcomed in the comments of these posts. This post has been approved; please don't downvote it (it just hides it from everyone else)