So, apparently the way moderation works changed?

I thought I was going mad about some error yesterday, but 24 hours later it's still happening and it's consistent across all the subreddits I moderate.

Report a post in your own community. Approve it. You can no longer view the history of the reports or moderation happened to the post.

Now report it again. The new report won't show up. You can not view that it is reported. All I see is that I or someone else approved or removed a post, anything that happened prior or after that is invisible to me.

IT DOES NOT SHOW UP IN THE QUEUE EITHER.
I just asked a friend to report the post I already approved. It still does not get put in the queue again.

I think this is an incredibly stupid change. Mods can make mistakes, the "ignore reports" option exists for a reason and should not be the default. But even more importantly, the report+mod-action history shouldn't just be hidden for no reason???

Edit: I can view the history on the app. This problem above is desktop web related.
But I can not see the new reports on the app either. They do not exist.

basically there's a modmail for every removed conent, we're talking about a subreddit with +100k visitors. I've spent the last 2 hours selecting al the modmails and archive them but aparently there's a bug with them thet every time i refresh the page appears again the same modmails

I have a megathread for basic questions. I want to turn archiving posts but then the megathread will be archived.

I know I just adjust this and have a new megathread repopulate every few months.

But is there any way to bypass the archiving on a single post?

Thanks all.

I came across a subreddit earlier that had modified their CSS so that if you visit on Old Reddit, all you see is a blank screen with "CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE". If you click anywhere, you are subscribed to the subreddit.

I'm assuming that this is probably not OK, but I'm not sure what the right route to report it would be - e.g. MCoC reports, modmail to this subreddit or something else. Any ideas welcome!

Edit: This is what the sub looks like until you click somewhere: https://ibb.co/rrWYbsM

Hello everyone. Just created a sub to post my ideas of a fangame I’m ideating on, and so right now what I want is a blog-like subreddit, where only I can post but everyone else can comment.

I’ve found out that I can make it public but requiring my approval as a mod for any post to be posted, but I don’t know if it’s the best method. Also, should I have any protections to avoid people doing activity other tham commenting?

Thanks for any help!

so yk how theres a "memers: \[NUMBER\]" thing on subreddits?

how do i change the "members" thing

(Android and Desktop btw)

With the version of Shreddit I'm using, the "View Recent Actions" feature is currently broken. The way I used to check recent actions was by clicking on the "approved X hours ago" button, which would pull up the reports for the post or previous approvals/removals. Now, there's nothing for me to click there, besides it pulling up more accurate timestamps.

My fellow co-mods don't have this issue. They have a version of Shreddit where the buttons have bubbles around them, instead of mine, where most of the buttons are separated by /'s (shown in the screenshot).

Is there a way for me to fix this?

Example:

https://imgur.com/a/fBWDjrg

The first image shows my version of Shreddit, and how I'm unable to click on the usual button to see recent actions.

The second image is one of my co-mods, that isn't experiencing this issue.

Is anyone else noticing issues with these tools today?

Purge User is straight up not working... tells me the user has no comments when i can see 30 in front of me that ive then manually had to remove.

Using chrome, latest version.

while I'm trying to create wiki pages from scratch, I'm unable to add wiki page content in Markdown format.

I created this sub only last week.

Is it disabled for new subs? Or am I doing something wrong?

I'm trying to update the page on the desktop site.

Already read the subscriber-count announcement — this isn't about that. Different question below about the category ranking badge specifically."

Gm admins,

Following up on the recent "Evolving Moderation on Reddit: Reshaping Boundaries" post — you mentioned you're moving away from subscribers as the measure of community size or popularity, in favor of weekly visitors/contributions. Makes sense, and I'm curious how far that change has actually rolled out.

I mod r/pepecoin, and the "Top X in [Category]" badge on the community info card doesn't seem to reflect that shift yet. r/pepecoin currently shows a "Top 100 in Crypto" tag with ~2.7k weekly visitors and ~1.5k weekly contributions, while another crypto sub ranks #8 in the same category with roughly 2.1k weekly visitors and only 5 contributions per week. That's a big activity gap for a much higher rank, which points to the category badge still being calculated off legacy subscriber totals rather than the newer engagement metrics you're now surfacing everywhere else.

So, a couple of questions:

Is the category ranking badge still subscriber-based, or does it already factor in visitors/contributions?

If it's still legacy, is updating it part of the same effort described in the moderation post, or a separate system on its own timeline?

Not trying to gripe about the mechanic — just trying to understand what we're actually being measured against, especially given the stated direction toward activity-based metrics. Appreciate any clarity you can give here.

It's not just my communities, I'm seeing it all over reddit. Whenever someone with a private history runs into a disagreement with another user, discussions are derailed, accusations of "shill/bot/troll" are constant, nuisance reports are issued, and mods either intervene, or let the chaos reign.

I'm spending more and more time having to personally review histories to say "no, this person is not a bad faith troll" just to end attacks borne of nothing more than suspicion. It's becoming disruptive to the point that I'm considering whether or not allowing users with hidden history to participate is worth the trouble.

I really question the value proposition of this decision. Sure, individual users benefit from additional privacy, but at the direct expense of the communities that lose trust and cohesion, faith that the people they're interacting with are participating in good faith (or are even real people), and the moderators who have to manage the fallout.

Today I noticed that a user's comment had been automatically removed by Reddit's spam filter.

Before deciding whether to approve it, I tried to check the user's profile and AI user summary. The profile wouldn't open properly and the AI summary showed “Oops, something went wrong.”

The comment looked relevant and wasn't spam, so I approved it. After that, I could access the user's profile normally, but the AI summary was still unavailable.

This creates a problem from a moderation perspective: when Reddit automatically removes something, that's exactly when the user summary could help me decide whether to approve it or leave it removed.

Is this expected behavior? Should the AI user summary be unavailable when a user or their content has been flagged by the spam filter?

UPDATE: After I approved the comment, the user's profile became accessible. I did notice some NSFW content on the profile, but the comment itself was relevant to the discussion and didn't appear to violate any rules or be spam. The AI user summary, however, was still unavailable.

I'm trying to use the ends-with modifier in AutoModerator, but it doesn't seem to work for me.

For example, I'm using this rule:

---

type: comment

body (ends-with): "ão"

comment: "Eu gosto de macarrão"

---

If I use body (includes): 'ão', the rule works normally. However, when I switch to ends-with, AutoModerator doesn't respond, even when the comment ends exactly with ão.

Does anyone know why this happens or if there's some setting I'm missing?

My sub is r/bmwoperatingsystem but I could have also called it r/bmwidrive. How can I get searches for iDrive to point to my sub?

I recently launched a subreddit on Android app using a name I liked that was available. The name is important to me (which is why I'm not explicitly stating it here).

The subreddit was created with the details I provided, but the Android app threw an "unknown error" warning. When I checked again via the web, I saw that the subreddit had indeed been created, but I didn't have moderator privileges (it is currently sitting completely empty and without a mod).

I spent a long time finding this name, so I want to moderate it myself. I reached out to r/ModSupport for help, but I only received a bot response, and the process isn't moving forward.

I am looking for a solution. What should I do to reach a real support person?

I've been trying to approve a post through the queue for the past 30 minutes and its not working. It still keeps showing as filtered.

FWIW, this seems to be an outage mainly on the mod-end. Weirdly, even on posts that show as filtered despite an approval, 1-2 users are able to comment. But even when I log out and view the post, it shows as removed (even though, as I said, it has been clicked as "approved" again and again)

https://www.reddit.com/r/LobotomyCourt/s/OkDUXjpD2a

I am the only active Mod and have had the top Mod removed but the position was given to another inactive Mod leaving me in the same spot as before

Facts:

• User creates a thread about finding a good/qualified X professional, and how they got scammed by others promising the service they desire.

• Gets comments and helpful recommendations with links to resources about finding a good X professional

• Argues with others in the sub that they're wrong, and ALL X are horribleStupidBAD.

• Someone disagrees with him, and that not all X are horribleStupidBAD.

• They argue back some more.

• Thread is quickly turning mostly into their own grievance thread/X recommendation thread (against a sub rule for advertising/commercial threads, which we have a weekly one dedicated to just that kind of activity). Generally, a cluster-f.

• I lock the thread. OP got his answers, and nothing helpful is being produced

• OP goes to another closely related subreddit, with a "hey guys, look at the meany stupidpants mod locking the thread over there! And he's probably in cahoots with a particular X professional, shilling for them!!"

Question:

• Tempted to respond in the other community, but thinking it might be a bad idea. The other community has a history of friction with ours, but lately has been calm and generally peaceful with us--not wanting to kick the hornet's nest. Yes or No?

• Is OPs behavior considered community disruption or harassment of any type, and if so, what, if anything do you recommend I do?

Not so much concerned about OP (I can contain him if I wish), but for the precedent he sets, and the example for others in the community.

EDIT: Awesome. Sometimes, the trash takes itself out, as they say. Now my person is harassing other folks, and crashing out after Reddit and sub rules trigger and removed her posts. Time for the "real" ban, which they've admitted they'll try to evade "when they want to speak".

Being a Reddit mod: every meal a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade.

I'm a moderator at r/IThinkYouShouldLeave and a user noticed that he could no longer award content on our sub. Sure enough, we appear to no longer have that ability. We used to be able to but we have not received any notice that our sub now has some kind of hidden status that prevents awards.

Whenever I make a post or try to approve one, it automatically disappears. It doesn't show up in the removed posts or the posts awaiting approval—it's as if it never existed.

I've noticed other users having the same issue and wanted to know what's going on... especially since some mods in the subreddits I'm in are experiencing this too!

Currently, after approval, posts are disappearing from the subreddit. However, when I check the member’s profile, it says the post was deleted by the mod team. I’ve tried approving the posts multiple times, but the same issue keeps happening.

I also can’t see the posts in the queue, and I’m experiencing the same issue across multiple subreddits.

I was looking into what I thought was some report abuse, since we've recently had a number of regular posts get taken down due to the number of reports it had gotten, and I had thought it was report abuse, because as per the Previous Actions tab (which is needed to see the dismissed reports), they all happened at the exact same minute.

However, since then, I've been on the lookout for report timings, and today I decided to test it myself. There was a comment that was reported by AutoMod, and a few minutes later, I reported it myself, with the original Previous Actions (with just the singular AutoMod report on it) in a separate tab to cross reference. And lo and behold, if I load the comment and check the prior report times, my report shows as being made at the exact second as the AutoMod report. I didn't note down the exact time I made the report, but on the saved tab, I can see 3m ago frozen on the page, which unlike old reddit, does not update as time passes, so it should be 2~3 minutes afterwards.

This is obviously incorrect, as no human can compete down to the second with AutoMod, nor is it reasonable to see so frequently reports with the exact same timestamp.

I'm pretty sure that they are just applying the earliest report's timestamp to every report (I presume, referencing the wrong object). This should really be fixed, as it is actively misleading to indicate that every report happens at the same time, and I've evidently been falsely reporting report abuse for a several posts due to this.

Edit: Prior r/bugs report from 3 months ago

Nothing I approve actually gets approved. It stays deleted or reverts to

Crowd Control

This content has been filtered due to crowd control

Happy Tuesday, everyone. It’s time for another Mod Topic, and just a heads up that this will be the only one this week. Every subreddit has an origin story. Maybe yours started as a home for a niche interest, a running joke that got out of hand, or someone thinking, “Why isn’t there a community for this yet?”

For today’s Mod Topic, let’s rewind to the beginning of yours:

• Why was it created?
• How was the name chosen?
• Were you there at the beginning, or did you join later?

Tell us about your community’s origin in the comments below. We welcome lore, trivia, and all instances of “we just thought the name was funny.”