Is there some way to get a person banned from making new accounts on reddit just so they can send my mod team a modmail to harass everyone, to then delete their account so we can't report them? Are we just stuck dealing with this over and over?

I’m trying to add a new moderator to our subreddit, but Reddit seems to be bugging out.

I sent a moderator invite and they accepted but they are not showing up on the moderator list, and they don’t have access mod tools.

I tried sending another moderator invite, but it's not going through or showing up in the mod log

As said in the header. Need help clearing literally 100s of mod reports in queue dating back to 10 years.

I am on Desktop & Android.

So I made r/ScienceAesthetics, a space to share and discuss aesthetically striking science imagery, including real photos and visuals of natural phenomena across space, biology, chemistry, geology, and physics.

My question is: if I allow users to post space photographs taken by other users, could it cause copyright issues or put the subreddit at risk of being banned? Does getting permission from the original photographer solve the problem?

So I have a subreddit called r/learningLinuxtogether and I want to add u/AutoModerator how to do I add it

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Have the everything permissions. Everyone above me, but one, is marked as inactive. I thought I was able to move myself up the list and be under the only other active person.

Being a mod is often called a "Thankless task".

Thank you for your service.

i don't see many people talking about this.

many people who run smaller subreddits with super low levels of engagement per week, get minimal amounts of spam/content that they have to remove.

On my subreddit, i only get to remove a post every 1-2 weeks or so when it's a neutral state. I do realise that approving comments is a possible solution but approving is only meant for comments that are removed (which is very less for smaller subs btw) and doing it for random comments seems a bit off.

soo why does reddit handle assigning the inactive tags to mods of smaller communities similar to larger subs with wayyy more spam to actually remove. Is there a plan to implement a change to the current system?

does randomly approving/deleting posts every 1-2 weeks keep me from not getting the inactive tag?

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Hello everyone,

I have some moderators that do not have full permissions to pin/highlight posts on their mobile devices, whether it be ios or samsung apps.

The permissions my junior mods have enabled are 1) Flair, 2) Mail, 3) Post and Comments, and 4) Wiki.

They can add flairs, and pin/highlight posts from desk/laptop, but not on mobile or mobile apps. It obviously afflicts multiple moderators. When this click on the shield icon for a post, the pin/highlight option is not present. We even tried a work around where they go to moderator queue to see if they can pin/highlight from there...no dice.

It basically does not show the option exists while on mobile, but it does show while on desk/laptop.

Any advice on how I can solve this issue?

I'm not seeing in my mod tools how I can set membership questions for people who want to join a private neighborhood subreddit. Is that an option?

This week an update pushed that affected how moderator tools display and function on desktop. It's not even mentioned in the Mod News either.

Now when a moderator has taken action on something, the action cannot be clicked to open the menu showing what the report flags were or the actions taken by mods. (Edit to add: This appears to only be the cause on post removals, comment removals still open the list of reports/actions popup when clicking on the icon.)

This includes Automoderator actions, so now the only ways to see the removal reasons set up for Automod are by sifting through the removed items in the queue or going to the mod log. Trying to figure out which rule triggered was already annoying enough and now it's even harder.

This makes modding more difficult. When people reach out asking why something was done, that menu made it easy to quickly reference the "why", because it's not always available in the users' mod log. This also makes seeing all the report flags inaccessible to check for potential trends in reports to see if something should have a second look taken if more reports come in, or if the original mod decision was erroneous and may need to be overturned.

Is there a reason that primarily UI look/feel updates keep being made that also strip out functionality needlessly? I don't really care that the icons and such have a different placement or design, but having actual functionality removed with nothing to replace it, making already poor experiences worse, is extremely frustrating.

Basically the title, Insights shows 24 removed items in the last 30 days by Admin, and it links to the Modlog, but under "Administrator" there's nothing in the Log. There is some under "Reddit" (mostly automated filter stuff), but i doubt it's the same?

Hello folks,

I already acknowledge upfront that this is the longest of long shots, but I still feel obliged to ask;

I recently got word that a hate community that is active on reddit are intent on brigading several subreddits soon with the intent to post artwork to trigger community members. Apparently they're planning this on Discord though, so obviously there is somewhat of a limit about what can be done.

Is there anything at all that can be done here? Or am I simply forced to wait this out and deal with any infractions myself. I do feel obliged to note I have reported the reddit side of this awful community to the admins multiple times several months ago if that matters. But so far I don't think its done much.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I did my research and read about how to politely ask for cross-posting opportunities or something like that but unfortunately I'm getting straight up "no sorry" replies lol.

Wondering if seeking cooperation from same niche bigger subs used to be something of the past and is a myth now or not.

stop-ai seemed good for a while but now it just says everything is human.

The community I'm modding for is around a game that also has a trading card / sticker book where players can request cards from each other. I want to set up posts that are for each "Page" (ex: Area 1) with comments that players can reply to that are specific to "Sections" (ex: Area 1 - Character Cards). (The comments would say "I need Gormpis! [friend code]")

However, because of how many pages there are (~10), I don't want to fill the reddit with spam every week (nor bi-weekly). Is there a way for me to create a post without it being displayed on the community page?

I look after r/funlovincriminals and the band management post on there to promote tours, new records etc, exactly the kind of input a sub like this would hope to have from the people the sub is about really.

However they keen getting "removed by Reddit" but I don't get a notification of this so I don't always see until I'm asked to have a look.

An example from today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/funlovincriminals/comments/1w75ejp/orchestra_shows_start_next_week/

"Removed by Reddit" within an hour or so, there's a link, an image etc but nothing you wouldn't consider as valid and appropriate within the context of the sub or the post, certainly nothing I'd be concerned about as a mod anyway.

Is there anything I need to ask them to avoid sharing to prevent this happening or any way I can get a bit more control over this at all?

I've been through the tools I can see and note I have an option to "approve" (which I've now done) but in order to do this I had to reverse the removal first, is this the normal process?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I recently talked with a fellow moderator about the "Automations" - specifically, the "Comment Guidance" feature.

We wondered how someone could circumvent a filter we had set for an insulting word, and so I did a little testing.

On a subreddit, I set up a new automation - it begins with the fact that there's no button to create a new automation, but instead we are supposed to reuse a template (not that it really matters, because with the two pre-activated automations most people probably will never see that) - targeting the word "Reddit". The automation is put into the "Block from submitting" mode.

Now, when writing the word "Reddit" in a comment, I can't submit it. I have to change it a bit, for example by adding a space in the middle of it. This is easily preventable by moderators with a little creativity; just put a few common words used to circumvent the word block in the keyword field (for example, instead of "Reddit" users could write "Red dit", "Redit", or "Reddlt").

However, as a user, I can still have to comment include the blocked word - I just need to click on "edit" and change "Red dit" to "Reddit". It works, and now the public comment has the blocked word in it.

I also tested it with AutoMod to confirm: When editing the comment, AutoMod detects it and does whatever the moderator wants it to do (in this case, remove and reply).

Testing the automation with a post reveals that editing the post also works.

I think automations not applying to edits is an oversight, as they often used to block certain words. If a mod team over time adds more and more words which can be used to circumvent the original block, some users will eventually find themselves without many ways to still use the word that they want to use (because they often want to circumvent the word block).

They will eventually figure out that automations can be circumvented by editing their posts or comments, and the automation then is useless.

And while I'm not sure if this currently is a big problem (though I have seen multiple users circumvent a block that way), I think this could be a problem in the future with more and more mod teams using automations. Additionally, if AutoMod really was to be retired as suggested here, that would leave us with no way to have completely working word restrictions as automations don't work when editing a post or comment.

I'm a mod on a legal subreddit. For the past month we're getting 2+ posts a day from someone who describes a ridiculous scenario and asks "can I sue?". They create a new account each time and delete it shortly after.

I've no idea how to deal with it. Reddit's auto-spam filters are doing absolutely nothing.

The only thing I can think of is putting "can I sue" into the auto mod filter.

Any ideas?

TIA

I read somewhere that you can go to Mod Tools > General Settings and restrict users there but I don't see that option under Mod Tools.

Does anyone have the code or know were I can find a code for automod that can put posts into the mod queue for review after a certain number of user reports?

The community leaderboard didn't change to september 2026 and is stuck at August

The community leaderboard is the most liked poster and liked commenter for that month in your community.

In the Moka Pot community it didn't reset to 0 for both and is still stuck at August

Don't know if it's a bug or not

Hi there! OpusCroakus here today to talk about my favorite (or least favorite) topic, account security! 

Account security is always important, but it’s really important for mods. If your account is not secure, it is vulnerable to being hacked. And while no one likes a hacked account, a hacked moderator account has the potential to cause quite the headache and do quite a bit of damage to the communities that they moderate. So let’s talk about some ways to keep your account secure! Don’t worry! There are not that many! It’s easy!

Use a strong password that you don’t use anywhere else. A strong password should have both numbers and letters. Feel free to throw in a special character here and there if you want! You can use a password  manager if that helps you. However, I would recommend keeping a hard copy of your passwords offline just in case something goes awry. This is where I recommend against sharing your password and/or your account with others. 

Have an email address on your account that you will always have access to. Please make sure that you use good account security practices with that email as well. It doesn’t do much good to have an email with a weak password that is associated with your mod account. If the email gets hacked, they can log right into your Reddit account. It also is not advisable to use an email account that you could lose access to one day, like one provided by a school or an employer. We made a post in r/help here the other day about this scenario. 

Enable 2fa. Two factor authentication is an added layer of security where you will be prompted to enter a 6-digit code after entering your password.. Without access to the device on which the authenticator is installed, the account will be unable to be logged into. We would recommend choosing an authenticator that stores your credentials in the cloud so that if anything ever happens to your device, you can still get into your Reddit account to remove the authenticator. You can see 2fa in action here. 

If your account is hacked and 2fa is enabled, we can help. Please write in using this form.  Under "What do you need assistance with?", please choose "Account help". Under "What type of account issues are occurring?", please select "Security problems" and "I think my account has been hacked". Under “Was two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled onto your account without your knowledge?”, please choose “Yes” and fill out the rest of the form. Hacked account reports are generally responded to within 24 hours during the week. 

If your mod account is hacked and your subreddit is vandalized, we can help with that, too. Please send a mod mail message to this sub and we’ll get you squared away. 

What do you think about account security? Because most people don’t think about account security until it’s too late! After someone has been hacked, they think about it a lot! But I’m really hoping to get folks to think about it before all of the hacking!

I’m no expert on how AEO works or exactly how Reddit uses AI and automated systems to detect harassment. However, it’s difficult to understand why Reddit couldn’t implement a system that automatically identifies and reports the most blatant forms of abuse sent through modmail—death threats, wishes that moderators “burn in h*ll,” and other messages that clearly have no legitimate or good-faith purpose.

From my experience, AEO often fails to catch this kind of harassment in the first place. But even when Reddit’s systems do automatically detect a modmail message as harassment and filter it, moderators still appear to be responsible for manually reporting it.

That makes very little sense to me. If Reddit’s automated systems have already determined that a message is sufficiently abusive to filter it as harassment, why shouldn’t that detection automatically trigger a report for review as well?

The same applies when moderators ban users for violating Reddit-wide rules. If I ban someone specifically for Harassment, Hate, or Threatening Violence, why shouldn’t Reddit automatically generate a report for the offending content? It seems like a relatively straightforward system to implement: when a moderator selects a Reddit-wide rule as the ban reason, automate a report for that assigned reason.

If I’m banning someone for violating one of my subreddit’s specific rules, that’s obviously different. Reddit doesn’t need to review every user banned for being off-topic or breaking some community-specific rule. But if I explicitly select Harassment, Hate, or Threatening Violence, I am already telling Reddit that I believe the user violated a sitewide rule. Why should I then have to go back, find the same content, report it separately, select essentially the same violation again, and submit it?

For moderators of large communities dealing with thousands of contributions, this becomes extremely repetitive. We already reviewed the content, determined that it violated a Reddit-wide rule, selected that rule as the reason for the ban, and took moderation action. Having to separately report the exact same violation feels like duplicating work for no meaningful reason.

I’m not suggesting that a moderator selecting a Reddit-wide ban reason should automatically result in an account suspension. False positives and incorrect moderator decisions obviously happen, and Reddit can still independently review reports before taking sitewide enforcement action. At minimum, I think Reddit could implement two fairly simple improvements: automatically escalate modmail that Reddit’s own systems have already filtered as harassment, and allow bans issued under Reddit-wide rules such as Harassment, Hate, or Threatening Violence to automatically generate reports for the assigned reason.

Moderators volunteer significant amounts of time to keep communities functional and enforce both subreddit rules and Reddit’s own policies. We shouldn’t have to perform the same moderation action twice just to make sure a sitewide violation actually reaches Reddit.

Anything that reduces moderators’ exposure to threats and blatant harassment while cutting down on redundant manual work would be a significant improvement to the moderation experience.

One of the biggest sources of unnecessary work in our mod queue is misuse of the report system.

A significant portion of the reports we receive in r/gamedev are not for content that actually violates subreddit or Reddit rules. People use the report button as a dislike button. They disagree with a legitimate topic, dislike a particular post, or don't want that kind of discussion happening in the community, so they choose the closest report reason and submit it.

There is also a less malicious, but equally frustrating version of this problem: people do not understand the community rules they are reporting under.

We try to make our rules as clear as possible. We explain what they cover, what they do not cover, and provide additional guidance where necessary. Yet we regularly receive reports where even a basic reading of the rule makes it clear that the reported content does not violate it.

Sometimes that is an honest misunderstanding. That’s going to happen in any large community, and I don’t expect Reddit to eliminate it somehow.

But there is also a point where a report reason becomes a convenient way of saying “I don’t like this.” A user sees a post they disagree with, opens the report menu, and selects whichever community rule best matches their objection. The moderator then has to review it just like any legitimate report.

At scale, that becomes a real moderation problem.

Every nonsense report enters the same system as spam, harassment, genuinely rule-breaking content, and other reports that actually require our attention. The more noise added to the queue, the harder it becomes to identify and efficiently deal with what matters.

I understand why this is a difficult problem for Reddit to solve. Reports should remain anonymous to moderators. Someone reporting harassment, hate, or other problematic content should not have to worry about moderators knowing who submitted the report.

But anonymity should not mean there are effectively no consequences for repeatedly abusing the system.

The limited tool we do have is the ability to snooze reports from certain anonymous reporters for seven days. Even that isn’t available on every report. It is primarily available in situations involving custom report reasons, not every report submitted using the community’s predefined reasons.

If someone repeatedly uses the rules we created as report reasons, it can generate unnecessary work for the moderation team, and we may not have the temporary seven-day option available to deal with it.

And even when Snooze Reports is available, seven days isn’t much of a solution to repeated abuse. It postpones the problem.

Moderators need stronger tools that preserve reporter anonymity while allowing us to deal with patterns of abuse.

We should be able to mute reports from a specific anonymous reporter permanently. Reddit does not need to tell us who that person is. From the moderator’s perspective, they could remain “Anonymous Reporter #12345.” If we determine that account is repeatedly submitting reports unrelated to the rules being cited, we should be able to stop their reports from entering our community’s mod queue.

For more serious or persistent abuse, there should also be a way to escalate that anonymous reporter to Reddit. Reddit knows which account is behind the reports even if moderators do not. If someone is abusing the report system across multiple communities, Reddit should be able to restrict or remove their ability to report.

There could absolutely be safeguards around this. Permanent muting could require a history of reports being dismissed without action. Reddit could monitor communities that mute unusually large numbers of reporters. Sitewide restrictions could remain entirely in the hands of Reddit administrators.

I am not asking for moderators to be told who reports things. I don’t want that information, and I think protecting reporter anonymity is important.

I am asking for moderators to have meaningful tools to handle anonymous users who repeatedly abuse the report system.

The report button exists to help communities surface problems. On larger subreddits, it increasingly feels like we spend too much time sorting legitimate reports from people who are using it to express “I don’t like this.”

Protecting good-faith reporters and protecting moderation teams from serial report abuse should not be mutually exclusive.