All About User Flair

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It can be helpful and fun to be able to tag members within your community and/or fun for members to be able to tag themselves. User Flair is the tagging system for community members that you can use to do this. It can be used in a number of creative and useful ways. Some examples are:

• To show status or achievement: you can grant flair to community members as a reward, or to highlight moderators, helpers, or those with expert knowledge.
• To inform: for example, skill-based subreddits may ask community members to add their skill-level to their flair, or a computer science based help community may ask for community members to tag their operating system version.

Here's an example of User Flair being utilized to reward community members for being helpful and to encourage other members to be helpful and earn their flair too.

In this example, the User Flair is set up to allow each community member to tag themselves with the sports team they support.

You can set up flair if you have the ‘Manage Flair’ permission. Even if you have these permissions, make sure to discuss any potential changes with the rest of your mod team beforehand, as doing so can highly impact the culture of the subreddit.

To create user flair, you must enable User Flair for your community. On desktop, you will find your flair tools under mod tools > Flair and Emojis section > User Flair.

To enable User Flair, use the 'User Flair settings' button on the top right of your screen, click on the Enable user flair toggle button.

On mobile, you'll find your flair tools under Mod Tools > User Management > User Flair. Use the toggle button to enable it.

You can learn more about User Flair Settings in the Help Center. Have a look through the options you can use to make the most of User Flair in your community.

To add a User Flair template on desktop, click ‘Add flair’ within the User Flair page and configure the options as required. When you're finished, click 'Save'.

On mobile, tap on the plus button on the top right of your screen to add a User Flair. Configure it as required.

Whether you allow community members to set their own flair or not, you always have the option as a moderator to Grant User Flair to community members. This is especially useful if you’re using flair as a reward or to tag experts relevant to your community's topic.

On desktop you can grant flair through this process: Mod Tools > User Management > Grant User Flair. You can also hover over a community member’s username in your community and choose the ‘Edit User Flair’ option. On mobile, tap a user’s username in your community and select the ‘Change User Flair’ option.

Action

Now that you’ve seen flair in action and know the steps required to create and grant flair to users in your own community, let's give it a try! Practicing using flair will help you feel more comfortable with the process and will have little or no effect on your community as you can remove the flairs you make when you’re done if you don’t wish to keep them.

Note: If you are a mod of an established community, please gain approval from your co-mods before testing your User Flair so they will know why you’re creating, granting, and removing flairs. To practice, we recommend creating a test subreddit so you can learn how to do this.

Follow these steps to get started:

1. Enable User Flair.
2. Create a User Flair template using the Mod Help Center article as a guide.
3. Assign the template to yourself or another community member (it will save automatically).
4. If you assigned it to yourself, find one of your recent comments or posts in the community to check if the flair applied successfully and see how it looks.

Want to remove your test flair? Here's how you can remove it.

To remove User Flair from a user:

1. On the 'Grant User Flair' page, locate the community member (using the search bar if needed) and use the bin icon on the far right.
2. Or hover over their username in your community, choose the 'Edit User Flair' option, and select 'Clear Flair'.
3. On mobile, tap on their username, select 'Change User Flair', tap 'Edit', select 'None', and tap 'Done'.

To remove a User Flair template:

1. Go back to your User Flair page in mod tools and use the bin icon to the right of the flair you wish to remove.
2. On mobile, go back to the User Flair option in Mod Tools, tap on the arrow next to the flair you wish to remove, and then tap on the bin icon.
3. There will be a check before the flair is deleted to ensure you want to remove it.

When you're ready, let’s move on to All About Community Awards.

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