If this has already been discussed ad nauseam, I apologize, but the number of “is this watch fake” post seems to be growing at an uncontrolled rate. Replica watches have an outright ban, yet people seem to have found a way to circumvent this rule by posting photos of replicas and posing it as a question as to if they are, in fact, fake. Some Reddit users have even speculated that many of these post are just scammers “testing the waters” to see if their replicas will pass the eye test. 95% of the time these watches are obviously fake, (i.e. if you have to ask, you already know the answer) and the number of these posts daily are simply cluttering up the timeline, in my opinion. There is already another sub r/isthiswatchfake (although only currently 7 members, lol) where I think these post should be directed to in the future.

  • MyNameIsVigil@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It’s a tough call. I hate 90% of the posts on this sub - authentication, size check, recommendations, etc. - but I’m still here, and honestly probably one of the top folks. Guess I’m addicted, ha. It’s easy enough to downvote a post and move on, but actually moderating all these posts would be difficult. One suggestion that worked for me is to use the Reddit Enhancement Suite plugin to at least filter out any titles containing the words identify, fake, recommend, real, authentic, size, etc. That gets rid of a lot of junk.

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    1 year ago

    So you just want a sub of bros asking if their PRX 35mm is too small?

    I happen to like the “is this watch fake” posts… sometimes you see some interesting stuff.

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    1 year ago

    Some are bots as well… just look at their post history - they’re all over the place with rando posts/ comments…

    Also the response (if they respond at all is almost ai in nature). Kinda of like answering, “I’m fine” to a question that wasn’t asked…

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    1 year ago

    Can we also add “fit?” question posts requiring mirror shots or 3rd party shots please

    Macro wrist shot making 34mm watches look like pizza pans

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    1 year ago

    But grandpa left this totally legit $90k+ collection of vintage JLC, PP and Rolex after 45 years as gas station attendant

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      1 year ago

      I like the ones where the person hasn’t even bothered to look much. If a person has looked, they should say so because otherwise, I have no idea what to tell them. Ditto for the gazillion stupid NATO strap threads that could be found with the simplest a search engine searches, ex.: “Reddit best NATO straps”, “watch forum best NATO straps”, etc.

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    1 year ago

    In the past 12 hours there has quite literally been 1 post asking if a watch was fake.

    There have been dozens about IDing watches, wrist fits, collections, buying advice, etc.

    I fail to see the problem?

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      1 year ago

      Every single sub I’m on has posts complaining about how bad the sub is. Our times are so reductive. It seems popular to look passed all the good to just look for fault.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think this is unique to our time. People have been complaining about their times since “times” existed

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    1 year ago

    I dunno, this really doesn’t bother me. It’s pretty easy to scroll past if you don’t wanna engage. Same thing with “is this too big.”

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    1 year ago

    Yes, it’s been discussed several times. I absolutely hate those posts. They offer nothing of value and only drive away users. Some days the new post queue is entirely filled with fake and identify posts.

    This sub used to be way better.

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    It’s a lot easier said than done.

    For reference several years back we did bring in a similar rule (Itentification posts only allowed on a Friday) but it’s almost impossible to automate Automod to detect what is / isn’t an Identify post, lots of people got really annoyed that they had to wait days to post a simple ID question, and even with the rule in place people find ways to circumvent it.

    We’re not against updating the rules here - we do make changes based on community feedback, but something like this would be hard to enforce and annoy as many folks as it helps and may even have unintended consequences.