Mod Kudos

Inspiration

My first ever Reddit API project was a similar concept of posting comments over images, but with the changes to the API I shelved the idea until this hackathon I decided to bring it back in a more positive way to help communities foster good content.

What it does

Moderators can "give kudos" to redditors by adding their comments to the Mod Kudos post which everyone else can scroll through to see some what the "best of" / what moderators want to see from their users. This provides moderators the ability to connect to users of their subreddit in a positive and public way.

How we built it

This was built using a hono node server, saving the comment and post ids to redis to retrieve later. The front end was built using react and tanstack router / query. The interaction point to add content is through the comment mod actions dropdown.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge was figuring out the interface for surfacing + scrolling through the comments so that it was seemless and performant.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I really enjoy when people lead by example, so if a moderator explicitly gives clear examples of what to do rather than only showing what not to do, I think it can encourage stronger more positive communites.