(Desktop)
We have a subreddit that, for legacy reasons, has hundreds of User Flairs. Most of these have an emoji set, and the option to be user editable with one single emoji limit.
For obvious reasons, this isn't ideal, especially as reddit migrates to more modern approaches, as the list for both users and moderators is unwieldy and reddit Apps can only do so much.
( Sorting user flairs, for example, is a slog with no auto-scroll when reaching modal boundaries, and the new interface causing a redraw for every row changed *while dragging*. )
It appears to me that the vast majority of those User Flairs could be removed, and a single "[a default icon] Custom flair (edit me!)" be used instead.
I thought there would be an issue with this in terms of deleting a User Flair; if any user had that Flair set, it would be removed from that user. But this doesn't appear to be the case.
These User Flairs are entirely cosmetic, and are not part of any Automoderator or reddit App rules / automations.
Are there any pitfalls that I should be aware of before committing to this task?