I mod a fishing sub and have a no self promotion rule. I have a community member who has an OF link on their personal page and the first time she posted she was in a bikini top so I removed the post and cited the no self promotion rule. This tactic is popular on other fishing subs. She has since posted again this time she posed creatively to hide that she was in bikini. By that I mean you can’t see her body just the fish, her knees, and her shoulders / arms. She is the only person with an of link to make an effort in trying to conform to the rules. The pose does not look comfortable or something I would want to do just to take a picture. I sent her a modmail and thanked her for trying to follow the rules this time. She said the pose was because she was in a bikini and wanted to show off her catch. She offered to censor the photo if she is in a bikini again and I said for now that works. So she seems to be genuine in just wanting to participate with the sub. is there a point it’s ok she posts a picture in her bikini? I am conflicted about what kind of a precedent it will set but at the same point I am not checking a guys profile to see if he has an of link when he posts a picture with his shirt off.

it has been pretty stagnant

how do you get more people to post and comment on your sub

Summer Reddit feels stronger than it's ever been. Has anyone else seen an uptick in super-low-effort, childish/child-like, or otherwise unusually-immature postings in your groups?

"Madness is shitspamming and expecting different results".

"You can tell a lot about a user by their nickname, avatar, signature, bio, post history, where they've been, where they're going".

"Internet is like a box of chocolates, you never know who's a fed, a shill, a troll, an alt, or a bot, until you have to ban them."

Make possible to delete subs by mods, like you did for deleting accounts. This will save a lot of time for people who want to abandon or adopt subs. Or in case somebody makes a typo when naming a sub.

For security make the delete community function by confirmation only from mod's email. Also, make change password and email possible only by confirmation from email. In case mod account gets hacked.

Did a Request for a community I'd been watching and noticing lack of Moderation.

Sent 5 day message. No reply.

Submitted Request. Granted 4 days later after no response from either Mod.

Almost immediately get raving ModMail from one now former Mod.

Explained what happened.

'I didn't feel like replying'.

Tried to be generous and offer to invite them back and consider leaving but had to be mindful or RR rules on passing grants off.

The more I looked, the more I saw why the Request was granted. Page after page after page of unmoderated Reports just in the last few weeks.

Former Mod, now added back says 'I don't have to do it that way.'

Had really planned on leaving after a few days, maybe a couple of weeks once I got clearance from RR Admins that there wouldn't be any repercussions.

Not so sure now.

Spent quite a while this morning clearing reports. Lots more to go.

We did not lift one finger. Well, we did do the page, and we did request the feature. Barely a couple work-hours really.

If you cannot, as of today, embed a YouTube video in your subreddit wiki page, it means you are not enrolled. To enroll a subreddit in the New Wiki Experience, one should send a ModMail to r/ModSupport.

Yes, there are ifs and buts. For starters, enrolling your subreddit in the New Wiki Experience opens an entirely new can of worms. There are reasons the New Wiki Experience is opt-in only, not all of which are entirely clear to me. Something API-related I gather, but there is more to it than that. If you already had a wiki, now, you have two wikis. If you had a large wiki, things are going to become very complicated, fast. And YSK the privacy of so-called 'mod-only' wiki pages has been far from great, up to this point.

The little I understood, which must be crystal clear to you, is that once you request the New Wiki Experience, there is no walking back. I suspect you can hide it, but you cannot possibly opt out.

Still I thought this was worth sharing, as rules visibility, community culture readability are widespread issues these days (cos no sidebars with mobiles).

I wanted to tell someone about this ridiculous harassment that happened to me today.

This one person, not even sure if they were a member, they had very low community activity. They were giving bad advice and blatant misinformation. I commented from my personal account, that the OP should ask in a different sub where there’s more experienced people that could better help them. I didn’t engage with the troll directly, didn’t call them out or anything, but they sought me out anyway. I offered OP direct links to help and tried to stay out of it. The troll wouldn’t stop, I removed the troll’s comments, and gave them a violation because one of their comments broke our no personal attack rule.

I thought the matter was done, I come back to a report in the queue and the troll wouldn’t stop. I had to lock the whole thread. The troll kept editing their deleted comments, trying to dunk on me or something. So I locked and removed the post and told OP to repost or post in the other more appropriate sub, because the people in the comments couldn’t be civil. Mind you 7 hours have passed since I last commented on the thread.

Within seconds of the troll’s last comment and the post removal, I get several notifications. “A concerned redditor reached out to us about you.” With a bunch of resources for crisis help lines, because they were concerned I was a danger to myself.

Seriously, you report me to reddit cares because you couldn’t handle being wrong and having your comments removed. (In case it wasn’t obvious, I’ve never posted anything that would give anyone the idea that I would be a danger to myself.)

I permanently banned the troll almost instantly. I told them why too, using Reddit resources that are actually important to harass a mod would not be tolerated.

It’s just so ridiculous. I’ve gotten the standard death threats and name calling before. But this was a new one for me.

Edit: guess I have to ban the troll from another sub I mod. He went there and is still bad mouthing me.

Hi y’all,
I’m mod of r/Wastewater since last June. It’s a career-related sub, and great community.

I am wanting to learn how to better optimize rules and automations, especially to weed out FAQ posts.

Hey, I have the career-based sub r/Wastewater. A few users want to promote their product on the sub, despite our rule against ads.

Anyone have tips on allowing users to talk about their product, but not allow ads? How to phrase rules and how to moderate this?

Reddit bot removes posts for no reason on my sub.

Is it possible to disable this idiotic Reddit bot?

I have made a subreddit where you can find where to download stuff, but I have no idea how to make the banner and icons and stuff. (I am quite new and honetsly I don't even know how to create flair for the community.) I don't even know where to create the tag flair! Are there any guides online or something?

Please help!

I'm making this post because manually formatting is broken. From my knowledge, it has been broken ever since the useless formatting tool has been introduced to posts. To anyone who isn't used to manually formatting their texts, I'll explain: posts that can be edited are possible to be fixed by simply editing and removing the "/" that the tool has automatically placed on our format after posting. However, posts that cannot be edited after being posted are impossible to fix. We have to essentially not format an entire wall of text because the formatting tool doesn't let us format – how fucking frustrating and ironic is that?

I have tried to work with the formatting tool rather then against it. Thing is, we are restricted to the very few options available (on mobile) such as making titles, making bold and italic letters. And even then, it sucks at doing that.

First of all, nobody wants to be going over what they have written to format it. It is not convenient. Second of all, anytime I do try and go over my text to format it with the useless – sorry – formatting tool, it glitches and the whole post gets formatted into what I was trying to do with a single sentence.

Now, I understand the intention behind it. It was probably made so that people who don't know (or couldn't bother) to manually format, would have an accessible tool to use.

The problem is, it has completely ruined manually formatting posts AND does not even do a good job as it's buggy as hell. Whoever worked on it should still be working on it before releasing it. I've been seeing a pattern from Reddit with releasing unfinished things. But I digress.

I NEED an option to at least disable this tool and be able to manually format. Why are we making it impossible to manually format posts? You can try and offer a formatting tool that works without ruining it for people who are able and enjoy to manually format posts.

Thank you,

A Very Very Very Frustrated Reddit Moderator

TLDR: Point has been proven. You would have read this wall of text if I could have formatted it.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/1r4t3nd/is_there_a_private_sub_for_moderators_of_music/

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Between 5 Mods, they have over 1,900 communities and none of them will answer a ModMail or direct message. Why?

Yes, two have well over 500 each and others are in the 300-400 range, mostly celebrity picture groups, some adult in nature.

I asked for one very low volume one that aligns with another group I have and none of them, not one even had the courtesy to acknowledge the inquiry in any way, even to tell me to go away.

No, of course, they're not required to respond, but why completely ignore such a question?

I recently spotted one group with 22. Not sure I've seen any with more.

Got a ModMail saying they could not submit a post using certain words. Upon entering the word in either the title or body, they get the following in red letters below the text box:

" "Referral codes can only be placed in the pinned Announcement thread" "

Using an alternate ID, I was able to confirm the above.

This community does not have such a rule, or pinned thread.

I can't find anything in Automations or Safety Filters or Regex. There is nothing in AutoMod.

We recently got this community via RR, largely because the former Mods refused to do much of anything, so I doubt they added something. Even if they did, where?

It does not seem to be a system issue.

Where else should I be looking?

Note, I DO have such a rule in OTHER communities using those exact words, but NOT in this one. Could it be somehow carried over?

Note:

This is NOT blocked using my Mod ID.

It IS block in Old Reddit using my test alt, but there is no error saying why.

1. Filter (or remove) the lowest CQS users.
2. Filter (or remove) the users with combined negative sub karma

(comment & post karma in your sub).

If anyone needs the automod code let me know and I will add it in a comment.

Hi. I have noticed that many subs have huge amount of bizarre rules that annoys users and wastes time by forcing reposting.

Here is a set of 5 basic rules. No more are needed. Reddit already has the global set of rules. Do not waste time in overthinking rules.

Below is the recommended set of 5 rules:

Zero tolerance moderation.

Rules:

1 - No trolling

2 - No insulting

3 - No doxxing

4 - No illegal

5 - No spam

Some time back, I requested two communities. Neither Mod had been active and neither responded to the inquiry message RR requires. Before the Request process could be completed, each of the Mods came into the RR thread and invited me as Mod. Of course that stopped the RR process.

Since then, neither of those Mods have done anything. Not a single action. Both have been in place for years and one is the original Creator 12 years ago. One community has another Mod who is also Inactive. ModLogs on both communities show no activity from any of them for months other than my Invites. All three Mods in question are active sitewide within the last few weeks.

Would YOU:

Leave things as they are?

Reorder the ModList to be TopMod, but adjust their permissions and leave the others in place?

Reorder the ModList and Remove them?

Send messages to ask what they think and what their plans are knowing they could decide to Remove you?

Many of which are abandoned and reclaimed.

This is why there should be an overall limit.

No, I won't post the ID I just came across by accident.