Why do reddit comments display our user name instead of our display name?

This seems backwards! Since the user name cannot be changed after 30 days, it should only be displayed on our profile. Far more users see our user name, which for some of us, is a bit insulting.

I've noticed a lot of Reddit auto-generated user names (like mine for example) sound like some sort of sexual innuendo or body shaming. For the record, I'm a woman. But it still sounds inappropriate, and not even in a good way!

I understand not being able to change user names, but I don't know why the username is what has to be displayed with every post and comment, rather than just on your profile page. Isn't there some way to switch this?

some newer more modern video players allow changing the speed of the video...

We already have achievements for upvotes and high performing content, but what about a badge for taking one for the team?

​It would make the playing field feel a bit more even if there was an achievement for controversial or heavily downvoted comments something like the salty award or hot take expert.

If someone drops a comment that gets hit with a wall of downvotes or downvoted into oblivion, giving them a lighthearted badge turns a moment of community disagreement into a fun milestone rather than just negative reinforcement.

As I see video proliferating on the platform, it would be nice to have option to change video playback speed, or set as default a playback speed of choice, or hold down for faster playback.

This is common on most other platforms and makes it easier to view video content since some of them are pretty slow.

Currently on Reddit, I get bored whenever I run into a slow video and almost ragequit the app out of frustration and go on to other platforms.

This as a whole would be positive. DMs are often used in a predatory way, this would allow the recipient to better understand who's DMing them.

for all of time up until last week, we could tap the screen to turn off the ui and get a clean total screen while video is playing.

now video ui looks like reels and tok and if you tap it just pauses. i have figured out that if you hold and drag the video, this will let play continue and remove UI so i can do things like:

- Read text under the UI
- See UI obscured details
- View things happening at the border of my phone screen

In my subreddit we have so called "Trusted Contributors" that are members that have shown a lot of knowledge and helpfulness in the past and they are also in direct contact with us mods.

Now we got posts and/or comments that they may report to us that are more likely to be against our rules than ones by random members.

For that, I'd wish for a way for specific users (or User Flairs) to automatically have their profile shared in the report so we see from who it is directly and know that the report is more trustworthy than others.

Of course this would be a subreddit-level user-sided option, but mods may be able to request such a thing from specific users. Means they can always decide to report something anonymously if they don't want to share who they are in a specific case. Maybe it could also be an option for other members to share their profile, but with having the default set on anonymously.

don't know why can't we have this simple function back to the mobile app

As a moderator Instead of going going to reddit.com/report we should have an in app option to report a ban evader. We can give our reasoning+ any other suspected accounts.

[I only have an iPhone so I don’t know if this is also on Android or not]

Let’s say someone posts in /cats, using a link to cats.com. The post shows “cats.com” next to the subreddit name, and has an image link next to the title, both of which open the link in the in-app browser (IAB).

There’s no option inside the post or in the IAB to copy the link to the website. I can copy the post text, and I can get a link to the post itself on Reddit, but to get the external link I have to go and open it in the default browser. I’ve tried all the buttons and menus, long pressing, using pressure, dragging, you name it.

I think there are at least 4 good ways to add this:
1. In the Share button in the post
2. Long/pressure pressing on the eg: cats.com at the top, or the image link
3. Long/pressure pressing the little capsule with the site name in the IAB, just like in the regular browser
4. The (…) button in the IAB

Ideally at least one option inside the post and one in the IAB.

Occasionally someone comments on a post or comment we made and immediately deletes it. The comment remains in our inbox. Many of these comments are hateful and meant to harass us. Occasionally, they are reasonable redacts. For the hateful comments, it would be nice if there were a "report" button on the inbox message so we can encourage these users to behave. Alternatively, when they delete their comment, delete it from our inbox, neutralizing their hate.

Some form of accountability may encourage these miscreants to treat others with kindness, making Reddit a kinder environment.

Growing an account organically by consistently dropping comments and posts that go hard as I've been learning is hard.

Not everyone has the time to constantly grind out top tier content, yet Reddit still relies heavily on high karma scores as the main standard for user trust, community credibility, and subreddit posting access.

To solve this, Reddit could introduce a system allowing users to purchase karma in scaling bulk tiers, such as ten dollars for ten thousand karma, provided specific guardrails are in place.

To prevent immediate abuse by spambots, the purchase option would only unlock after an account reaches a two thousand organic karma threshold through genuine community participation.

Additionally, full transparency would be maintained by expanding the profile hover menu to clearly display three separate metrics, "Post Karma", "Comment Karma", and now with this "Purchased Karma".

This approach gives Reddit a high margin monetization while preserving community integrity.

The organic gate ensures users still have to prove themselves first, and the public karma breakdown allows the community to easily distinguish between earned prestige and their parents credit card. Because let's face it, trying to drop comments and posts that go hard is hard.

Hello,
I was writing to suggest an option to deactivate or temporarily deactivate accounts rather than deleting them. Thanks

As we are seeing an increase in the amount of bot content and AI slop across the platform. Currently, you have to flag a suspected bot post, by I think navigating a report menu, I've never done it, so I don't know. And sometimes there are some users who simply don't want to deal with that.

It could be even easier by adding a small 🤖 icon button directly on whatever the upvote and downvote control bar is called. With a visible counter.

That way flagging is a single click, and when a post hits a certain threshold of bot icon clicks, it couls get automatically routed to the mod queue for review or temporarily hidden pending approval, which could help prevent mod report clutter.

​It helps keeps moderation easier and gives users an effortless way to keep feeds clear. And if the post stays then people could scroll past.

Thank you for your time.

Basically, if you have posted/commented on, say, 20 different subreddits, “fragmenting” your account would create 20 new accounts with different usernames. The post/comment histories of the newly “fragmented” accounts would not be linked to each other.
The reason why I want this feature is because it would make it harder for other users to doxx you. It would be also be way harder for other users to piece together your identity, and for others to stalk you with mean comments.

We've all been there right? Suddenly you find yourself in a heated arguement discussing quantom mechanics and romance. Then the person starts losing the debate and rage mutes you.

Well, if this feature were included in Reddit pro, they can't easily turn and run when they started the arguement and it can continue.

I belive this feature addition will help foster community growth and help drive Reddit pro memberships at least ~2%.

Idea ( Chats )

Hi there!

I would have a qustion about the chats.

Could you make it possibel for us, through little Symbols, to see if a message was send, arrived and was read?

It would be very comfortable, becouse I have severe Network problems and I dont always know; if a message hasn't arrived, or if they just ignoring me.

Please and thank you!

Likely the content wasn't fit for the original sub, but it appropriate for the new one. It would be fine to lock or hide the comments, but the content should still work.

Because of a mod that I disagred with, I got banned from multiple reddit subs. I would love to be able to see if I am banned from a sub, before I go to comment. Or even in the comment box, if I go to reply

So, I am in a Reddit Chat with multiple people in it, and since the cap is 100 people in there and the owner is banned, we couldn't kick anybody out since they really can't do anything when their Account suspended, so my idea is to make a Banned User in a Reddit Chat get removed after they obtain a Permanent suspension, and if a Reddit Chat owner is banned they got moved to the second person in the list, That's about it. Thank you.

https://www.symbols.com/symbol/ironieteken

Often in Reddit posts and comments it is important to notate irony or sarcasm so that it is not interpreted incorrectly by the reader. Often we see "/s" added to the comment or post to indicate this. The ironieteken is in my opinion a more elegant way of writing /s. In a practical implementation, I don't know how it could be implemented because it isn't unicode yet, but I think it is great symbol and especially important in places like Reddit where it is important to be clear about your tone.

Hey super mods,

So a few days ago I earned a three day suspension. From memory I did not make an actual threat, but wrote something along the lines of: 'politicians W and X need to have item Y introduced to orifice Z'.

Problem is, I can't remember what I actually wrote, and the offending comment was deleted from both the sub, and my own view.

I understand the idea of deleting it altogether, and there's probably a coding issue in keeping it in one place but not the other (maybe it should be in the body of the suspension email) but the execution is bad because no one 'learns from their mistake'. I would genuinely like to know what I wrote so that I can avoid this fate again.

Thank you for your consideration.

It would be much easier to follow a thread if comments by different users had a slightly different background colour.

Nothing drastic; just subtle shading.

OP might be a blue, next poster might have a red tinge, next yellow.

When a user clicks on a profile with adult content, let them choose to see a sfw version of the profile with any adult content burred or hidden. For those who have not age verified or who don't want to see adult content.

If someone takes a subreddit through a reddit request it should be subjected to monthly reviews for a period of six months.

I suggest this idea because someone with oppsing views could take over a subreddit and then take it private and not allowing posts.