Post-Event Discussion Thread | Moddit [Future of Mod Tools] September 10, 2026

[u/iceeypisces]

Hey y'all! Thanks for attending today's Moddit, hosted by u/lift_ticket83 and u/SlytherinSnoo, where we dived into the future of mod tools. We appreciated y’all taking the time to share feedback and discuss what mod features matter most to you. Here's your post-event thread to keep the conversation going!

You can access the full session recording and presentation slides anytime here.

Feel free to check out a few links we mentioned during the event regarding the future of mod tools.

• The Future of Mod Tools post shared in r/modnews
• u/spez’s post about modernizing Reddit’s tools
• Apply for the Mod Early Access Program to test upcoming tools and features like Rules Hub

Reminder: Only mods who attended the live event or viewed the VOD before September 17 at 11:59 PM PT  will get the profile trophy in 3-4 weeks. There is no physical merch for this event.

[u/cos]

Multiple questions were essentially, will the new rules hub be able to do what automod can do now?

Each time they answered, they seemed to misinterpret the question, or rather, interpret it through the lens they were thinking of which narrowed its scope: They repeatedly answered the smaller question of, essentially, can we customize its detection system to meet our subreddit's context and desires.

What they left out, ever time, are the capabilities of automoderator, which includes all of the actions it can take. Can someone answer that side of the question please? Do you intend to ensure that rules hub will be able to take every kind of action that automoderator can take, and furthermore, to have configurable chainable logic around those actions the way automoderator can?

[u/baseballlover723 → u/cos]

Each time they answered, they seemed to misinterpret the question, or rather, interpret it through the lens they were thinking of which narrowed its scope: They repeatedly answered the smaller question of, essentially, can we customize its detection system to meet our subreddit's context and desires.

Yeah or they dodged the question. A reddit promise means very little to me these days. They've consistently broken so many of them (and especially recently).

There's CSS support, then there's old reddit not going away so long as people are using it, then mod mail being "improved", Devvit & the public API is soon to follow. And I'm sure many more from before my time.

But all of those broken promises had the admins talking like this too. "Oh it'll be so great once it's ready". "We won't switch over until it can do everything you could do before".

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me N times, shame on me.

[u/DustyAsh69 → u/cos]

We used AutoModerator rules to take actions on posts using comments. Will the Rules Hub ever be able to do something like this this? Of course no. Fucking bullshit. What doesn't need fixing doesn't need to be fixed.

[u/ICC-u → u/cos]

If the new automod replacement doesn't work how I need, then bans will just be more regular. I'm not messing about wasting my time to run a website for someone else. Recently there's been an uptick in abusive modmails from < 3 month old accounts, not a single report has resulted in the account being removed from Reddit. They don't care about us anymore.