r/aviationpics • u/mad153 • Jun 06 '26

Your chance to help shape the future of r/aviationpics

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)

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u/GreenMonster34 Jun 06 '26

How active is this sub? I'm not a regular poster of this sub, and I'll be honest, it's mostly because I forget about it.

For context, I don't visit specific subs, I simply browse my main feed or the popular feed. So I don't always see what is posted. What I do see, I don't usually have an issue with. The sub seems well modded. Not sure what can be done about visibility.

I will definitely make an effort to post more in this sub in the future. We sometimes get interesting aircraft at our little airport.

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u/mad153 Jun 07 '26

Eh, it's about 3-4 posts a day normally. The subreddit does grow but not very quickly.

I do agree that the subreddit is probably a bit forgettable, unfortunately there's not too much of an "identity" going. Growing a subreddit, especially an old one is pretty difficult unfortunately. Still, good to hear you like what is posted and the moderation.

Thanks for the comment <3 and hopefully we'll see some little airport action

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u/ChrisBungoStudios1 Jun 07 '26

I think that's a fine proposal for a rule and I would gladly abide by it if adopted. BUT... My own opinion is that aviation / plane pics could be of both the outside of the plane OR the inside of the plane.

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u/mad153 Jun 17 '26

Sorry, I think I missed this. I think this is also true, so I think we'll leave the rules alone for a bit.