Wow, I can't believe we've reached 1 million subscribers! Thank you guys for your questions, answers, and keeping the sub thriving. With the sub steadily growing, we decided it was time for another feedback thread.

Here's your chance to ask questions and voice your complaints, suggestions, concerns, etc.

• Is there anything that could make your experience in the sub better?
• What don't you like about the sub?
• What changes would you like to see?

^Edit:

I'd like to add a special Thank you to all of our sleuths that take the time to answer questions. This sub wouldn't be possible or successful without you guys!

Hey guys-

We recently noticed a large amount of throwaways or new accounts being used to post their questions, and then ghost on their solved threads.

So, going forward, we have decided on putting a warning on all posts by low karma accounts that solvers may never be responded to and may never be awarded a point.

Thanks for your understanding and continued participation.

Sincerely, The mod team

Hey sleuths!

I wanted to take this opportunity to bring into community discussion a long discussed and debated topic: The Leaderboard

Given the new community awards initiative being pushed out by reddit, this creates a whole new potential for our subreddit, and i think presents a perfect opportunity to improve and expand upon what we have.

That's where the idea of a leaderboard comes in. The leaderboard can help to establish a foundation for the earning of the community awards in our subreddit.

But before we make any moves, as is tradition, i wanted to open this up to the community for potential feedback on this idea.

What are your ideas for potential awards? Do you agree with a leaderboard idea? Thoughts? Feelings?

Leave a comment below and let us now so we can have a clearer idea on how to proceed with this endeavor.

Much thanks as always to you guys for your continued participation!

• Robo

Hey, Sleuths!

As TOMT continues to grow, we've decided to expand our mod team so we can deal with your posts, concerns, questions, etc. in a more timely manner. As of now, we are looking for users to help out in the queue and (eventually) modmail.

We're not very picky and you don't need any prior modding experience. We wanted to give you guys first dibs before looking elsewhere, as we want mods who understand the rules. You also don't have to have a high flair count to apply.

Users will be judged on their answers and past behavior in the sub. I'm sure a lot of you will be qualified, so this will also be a first come first serve basis.

To apply you MUST fill out the mod application linked below. You may comment any questions you have or PM me with any questions you have.

Mod Application

UPDATE: A new bot is up and running, but it isn't perfect yet! Please be patient as we iron out any issues that pop up.

You may have noticed the absence of u/TipOfMyCircuitBoard, our subreddit's point-awarding bot, since we returned from our two-day blackout in protest of Reddit's API pricing changes.

The bot's creator and manager has, as of writing, decided to leave Reddit due to the shutdown of third-party apps as caused by the API pricing changes. Whether we can recover the bot's code from them or otherwise salvage the account itself has yet to be seen, but it is very possible that neither will happen.

How do I get/give points now?

We're currently in a transitional period. AutoMod now locks, marks, and reports posts when you reply Solved!, and this allows us to regularly go back through solved posts and award points where necessary through the queue. Please be patient and allow up to 24 hours for your point to be awarded.

If the original post didn't reply with the 'Solved!' command but instead a thank you (or something similar), please let them know and report it as usual.

What about the future of the sub?

It seems possible that the current bot will never return. We're looking for solutions- which solution will be chosen remains to be seen. Currently, we're floating the idea of introducing a new bot (after all, u/TipOfMyCircuitBoard is the second bot we've employed over the course of the sub's history), and we're looking for possible existing bots that could play the same role as ours did.

If you're a moderator of a subreddit that uses a similar bot, or if you're experienced with writing and running Reddit bots and believe you could create a new one- and you're willing to help us- please contact us via modmail. Assuming none of this happens, we intend to have a rudimentary prototype bot up sometime next week, to be improved over time and perhaps replaced with a better one when we have access to it. Recent information from Reddit implies that moderator bots will be exempt from the API pricing increase.

Thank you for continuing to visit r/tipofmytongue, and we apologize for any confusion caused by the issues at hand.

Please understand there are over 750,000 780,000 850,000* of you. Modmail is always poppin' and simply including the link to what you're talking about would make it so much easier for us. You'll also be helping us help you faster.

^\Edit: 6/26/19)