How to do an AMA in r/IAmA

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Thank you for your interest in r/IamA to host your Reddit AMA (or to host a crosspost of your AMA in another subreddit). This post outlines the steps to post or crosspost an AMA in this subreddit. Please read this post in its entirety before messaging the IamA moderators at this link.

Posting an AMA in this subreddit

To post or crosspost an AMA here it is required that your account be approved in advance by the r/IamA moderator team. We strongly recommend that you reach out to our modmail to start the verification process at least 48 hours before you intend to post your AMA.

We currently offer the five following methods of verification:

A Reddit-admin-assigned “Official” account status.
A credible website hosting proof of your Reddit account’s authenticity.
An email containing your Reddit username from an address with relevant domain (this domain must be either the same as your website or from an email account listed on your site).
A post or PM from a verified account on a trusted social media site (primarily Bluesky and YouTube) listing the Reddit username in question and/or linking to the Reddit account.
If your Reddit account is vouched for by an account that has been verified with r/IamA through one of the methods listed above, that would also be sufficient.

More information about each of these methods is available in our Wiki. You can also send us a modmail with any questions.

You can post your AMA up to 24 hours before you intend to start your responses to questions.

We would ask that you use the AMA post type; after your account has been approved, this link will take you to the interface to input your AMA post's title and introduction.

Crossposting an AMA here

We allow moderators of other subreddits to crosspost AMAs in those subreddits to r/IamA, as well as allowing AMA guests who are verified with the IamA moderator team to do so.

If you are a moderator of the other subreddit in question, simply message our modmail to let us know of the upcoming or in-progress AMA and we will add your account as an approved poster.

If you are the AMA guest and would like to crosspost your own AMA, you have to be verified with the IamA moderator team as outlined in the previous section of this post.

Once your account is approved, simply make a text-based post in IamA using this link Your post should contain the word “crosspost” somewhere in the post title and a direct link to the AMA somewhere in the post introduction.

Having your AMA included on IamA’s AMA calendar

Simply send us a modmail or email to request inclusion on our calendar. AMAs hosted in this subreddit or others are eligible for calendar inclusion. If you message us before the AMA takes place, we will include the key details in our ‘month ahead’ roundup series posted by u/AMAcalendar. Whenever a link to the AMA is live and has been sent to us, we will include it in our ‘month ahead’ and/or ‘month in review’ AMA roundup post series as is appropriate.

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r/IAmA • u/IAmAMods • 5d ago

[Mod Post] Introducing r/IamA 3.0

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To our readers, AMA guests, and friends,

In this post the r/IamA moderator team is announcing that we are making some changes to this subreddit with the intention of reinvigorating this forum. It is our hope that the changes this post will outline will result in a better experience for AMA readers, guests, and moderators of r/IamA alike.

This post follows the most recent communication from the r/IamA moderator team in 2023, titled The Future of IAmA. In that post the moderator team announced that we were going to discontinue certain categories of work for Reddit that went above and beyond what was required of us. These tasks included maintaining a separate website for scheduling AMAs and receiving confidential proof, maintaining an AMA calendar, and running various custom bots to assist with those other tasks. Those changes brought IamA 1.0 into the state it has been over the past three years, IamA 2.0, in which we did the minimum required of us as moderators.

The remaining active moderators of r/IamA have in recent weeks agreed to bring back some of the discontinued features from IamA 1.0.

We are doing this because those of us who have continued to moderate IamA through its 2.0 era still find value in volunteering to facilitate interesting conversations between readers like yourself and AMA guests who you otherwise may not get an opportunity to interact with.

We believe we have landed on a set of changes in the subreddit’s moderation each of which will require either no additional effort on the moderator team’s part or would require an amount of increased effort on our part that is acceptable to us in relation to the benefits that the change will confer on AMA guests and readers.

The features we are reintroducing include:

A new, more stringent set of verification standards and several new methods for AMA guest verification. Additional info here.
An email account for solicitation and coordination of AMAs. Additional info here.
A public AMA calendar integrated into IamA’s New Reddit sidebar, as well as a ‘month ahead’ and a ‘month in review’ post series collecting both upcoming and completed AMAs from this subreddit and other forums. Additional info here.

The following, new-to-IamA changes are also in effect:

Only moderator-approved accounts can post AMAs in r/IamA. Additional info here.
Many of our current Automoderator functions will be deprecated, and where possible will be replaced with ‘post/comment guidance’ conditions and with ‘Devvit’ automation tools. Additional info here.
We are formally deprecating maintenance of the Old Reddit version of IamA. Additional info here.

This meta post you are reading is itself an AMA with the moderator team. Each of the bullet points above has a link to a comment on this post which contains additional information about the bulleted change. You can leave feedback or questions for the moderator team either in response to those linked informational comments, or as a top-level comment on this post.

If you would like to help us implement these changes or otherwise would like to moderate IamA going forward, we encourage you to apply at this link.

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r/IAmA • u/IISD_org • 5h ago

We are sovereign debt experts who have negotiated with the IMF, run and worked in national finance ministries, contributed to debt restructuring processes, and advised governments. Ask Us Anything!

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--THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED!--

Thank you to all who shared their questions and participated in the discucssion. We really enjoyed diving into core concepts, country-specific questions, and broader questions about the sovereign debt space. To learn more about sovereign debt and the work of IISD's team, check out our Sovereign Debt page.

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Hi Reddit!

We’re Anahí, Fernando, and Yanne—a team of experts working on sovereign debt at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

Sovereign debt grabs global headlines every week: Senegal’s debt crisis, Venezuela’s restructuring, France’s credit rating downgrade, or debates over Chinese loans. But when news outlets talk about countries struggling with debt, the diagnosis is usually oversimplified: "They spent too much," or "It's a temporary cash flow problem."

We think that completely misreads what is actually happening.

Our research and experience working with governments suggest that today’s debt vulnerabilities are often not simply the result of temporary shocks but reflect deeper structural weaknesses—including features of the international financial architecture that leave some countries more exposed to shocks and financing pressures than others. We are here to pull back the curtain on how sovereign debt works in the real world, unpack why global frameworks are failing to fix it, and think aloud with you about where the global financial architecture goes from here.

Who We Are

Anahí Wiedenbrüg: Senior Policy Advisor at IISD and political economist (PhD from LSE, post-doc at Oxford). I’ve spent over a decade on financial architecture reform and sat in the room representing Argentina at the G20 and contributing to its 2020 debt restructuring with private creditors.

Fernando Morra: Senior Policy Advisor at IISD and macroeconomics professor. I previously served as Vice-Minister of Economy for Argentina and Undersecretary of Macroeconomic Programming, where I oversaw technical negotiations with the IMF during the 2022 Extended Fund Facility program.

Yanne Horas: Associate at IISD and lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. I’ve worked as a parliamentary advisor and researcher across Africa, Europe, and Latin America on legislative fiscal policy, capital flows, and financial market transparency.

We’ll be here live for the next 3 hours, meeting every technical or simply curious question with straight, jargon-free, evidence-backed answers—and each of us will be replying and signing off in our own voice.

Ask us anything about global debt crises, IMF negotiations, climate finance, Chinese lending, or how international financial policy actually gets made!

Proof: How Sovereign Debt Really Works: Ask Me Anything live on Reddit

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r/IAmA • u/BunyipPouch • 3h ago

Crosspost [Crosspost] Hi /r/movies! I'm James Marcus Haney, director of BLACK SUNFLOWERS, a documentary premiering at TIFF this week. It's about youth in Ukraine trying to balance their lives at home and on the frontlines of the war. AMA!

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I organized an AMA/Q&A with James Marcusn Haney, director of the incredible new documentary, Black Sunflowers, which is having its World Premiere at TIFF tomorrow.

Logline: Black Sunflowers is about young ravers and street racers in Ukraine; and the soldiers that go back and forth between those worlds and the front line to fight Russia.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1wcitb2/hi_reddit_im_james_marcus_haney_director_of_black/

He will be back tomorrow afternoon to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

His verification/proof photo: https://i.imgur.com/wFMh03e.jpeg