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.
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.