Watches

Agree. These dilute the good photos and neat vintage finds I joined this sub for.

If the mods were more active they could make a thread for these things. I enjoy seeing people getting a new watch, having actual questions about a watch or try to get a diverse opinion on their collection. I love it when I see a post where people get their first Swiss watch or their first luxury what ever… but then I scroll further and I see the most obvious, obnoxious piece of shit I’ve ever seen. I’m not even sure what these people try to accomplish but to ruin the day of others.

Mod here!

We’ve been recently having some discussions about the seeming increase in quantity of “identify my fake” posts.

We are looking into some tweaks to automoderator, but most likely this spring we will have it as a large ballot item on our State of the Subreddit meta post where you the community annually get to guide our policies.

Nah I like it. Often see something interesting. It beats people showing off the same omega speedmaster every week.

No. Keep them coming. The funniest posts.

Sometimes I learn things from the ID posts. The "is this fake" posts need to go, though!

They annoy me, but not as much as the "does this fit my wrist?" posts.

This would eliminate 40% of activity 😂

I don’t know. I’ve tried posting several times and somehow always fail at gratifying the bot and get my post deleted. Sometimes I think this may be happening to them.

By now, a majority of users here, I imagine. Between the ‘is this fake’ and ‘identify this’ posts, the subreddit has really gone to shit. Some days when you browse new, it’s ALL posts of these two types.

Frankly, I’ve visited here less and less because of it. Those topics tend to be posted by people with no actual interest in watches, or the wrong kind of interest entirely. If you look at their profiles, you’ll see that it’s also usually the first time they post here.

We don’t need those topics or those users. There’s a good reason why other forums outright ban these posts: they add nothing and drive away people who actually want to talk about watches.

Idk, I got a kick out of the guy who asked to identify the watch Jeffrey Epstein was wearing lol

Let's not put too many restrictions on what folks post. If if it's about watches, let it in.

I mean you also get to see something cool from now and then from people who had no idea.

Also someone who has no experience about watches can google a whole bunch of things and still get scammed, so to me it makes sense to ask here.

Many of us can learn from every post. I dont know it all yet.

Some people have no idea where to start and asking a bunch of people who are obsessed with a topic for their expertise is basically what Reddit is for. If the entire sub was just a circle jerk around photos of pretty watches I think it would get stale pretty fast and heavily discourage new members from interacting at all.

With all due respect and I mean that, with all due respect I disagree. I believe those posts are fun, I welcome them. Those posts help me to learn how to spot a fake.

I think a lot of things need to change about this sub. Wtf is with the [watch name here] requirement. How many gd seamasters do you mods think I've seen? This would be a lot better sub if you could just throw up a post and quick pic. Like the watch? Ask about it.

Seems like a request someone in the fake Rolex industry might make. Interesting.