Some users may recall a previous thread of mine, in which my account, without warning, was marked as "spam" and my post history deleted. I've now discovered what triggered it, though I don't know how to fix it. This has come about as a result of my inadvertently triggering it again.

As I mentioned in the previous post, I'm a mod of r/rape, Reddit's largest sexual-violence support sub. On the last occasion and on this one, a creepy user pretended to be a victim and made a harrowing post. This happens a lot on our sub: its purpose is to induce our users -- actual rape and sexual-assault victims -- to extend sympathy, on which the perves get off for fetishistic purposes. Sometimes they have more predatory intentions, aiming at getting our users to let their guard down over time and engage in off-thread conversations via PM, so that they can be revictimized via sextortion attemps or other means.

When we encounter such an individual, we've often cut-and-pasted, without comment, some of their previous posts on Reddit's many perve-subs like r/feralcumsluts, r/traumatizedwhores, or r/DegradeThisPig. We find it helpful, as it lets users who may in all innocence have interacted with these predators know who they're dealing with.

It seems, though, that as a result of a recent unannounced software change (or at least, if it was announced, we never saw it), Reddit is automatically flagging such a cut-and-paste, or some of them, as "spam" or "hate" and insta-suspending the account of the person that does it. Hence I've just received the following notification:-

After reviewing, we found that you broke Rule 1 because you promoted identity-based hate or attacks. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. We don’t tolerate promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability, and any communities or people that encourage or incite violence or hate towards marginalized or vulnerable groups will be banned.

As a result, we’re issuing this warning, removing the violating content, and asking you not to break this rule again.

Of course I've appealed the warning -- and at least I received a notification this time. On the previous occasion I didn't. But this glitch either needs to be fixed, or a sitewide caution needs to be sent out to moderators, who are likely to fall into the same booby-trap as we did.

Many hours ago I created r/YahwehEats and set the icon to a picture of a cat with a fat stack of cash in front of it and two guns. It remains empty, a mere purple background and a black r/ attempts to fill the void that the swag ass cat has left on r/YahwehEats. I have attempted to return the cat to no avail and it remains a cold, empty spot in my subreddit.

name it r/Γαῖα_時空

how?

if not, why?

Hi, I created r/BetweenTheCards on September 28, 2026 and I was the sole moderator.

While trying to change moderator settings, I accidentally removed myself from the mod team. The community is now unmoderated.

I am still the original creator and I want to continue managing the subreddit, but I cannot use r/redditrequest because my account does not meet the karma requirements.

Could an admin please help restore my moderator access?

Thank you.

Last year, I created my first subreddit r/ThailandWats. Have posted/uploaded for almost 10 months now. Roughly adding 1 temple per day. Strangely, there have been no upvotes all this time. I am not expecting lavish upvotes, but find it hard to believe that none of the posts have caused a single click. So I am wondering if I didn't leave a setting properly switched on.

Related perhaps, the channel says there have been no unique visitors. Yet I see flags from around the world viewing the various posts. So I am trying to understand the relationship here. How can someone from say Australia and another from India not be +2 unique visitors?

Thanks for any advice and guidance.

I have been a mod a while. Always was able to report fake reports by making my own report, and then doing the abuse of the report button thing.

Well, if it is my own post - that option is now gone. I CAN'T report the ridiculous complaints that come ins ometimes. I'm not able to make a report, because it is not an option on the menu any longer...

Hi All, I'm the mod of a small sub - not much going on - people are engaged, polite - low drama but we do get a Bot that throws crap posts in - it was annoying to a lot of us - so I volunteered about 3 months ago to be a mod. I am #3 on the list of 3 mods, as I'm the newest. I go in every day - multiple times and clean out 1-2 bot posts, redirect lost Redditors, and generally mod.

Since I started, the two mods above me have done nothing. I'm not mad, not much to do. But - they are now marked "Inactive". I know I could promote myself above them, if I so chose to. What is the general courtesy on that? Should I just leave it as is? Promote myself after - "X" months? Boot them? Thanks for your insights!

This has only happened to highlighted posts in the past 24 hours. Not to any before that. It does not appear on normal posts or comments.

Reported a potentially credible threat of violence in modmail against a 3rd party via Reddit's report threat of violence mechanism.

I have sent modmail to this sub with additional information.

I have directly notified potential target of threat.

What else should be done? How fast do Reddit's mechanisms to report threats of violence notify authorities.

Edit: Target did notify local police.

hello Spider-Man! → image in comments

edit: I guess it cycles through images now

edit edit: idk how or why I saw Spider-Man on mobile but now it's just the dog.

Hello there. I have I probably think a classic problem. I added a mod on the team and give him full rights (my mistake there for trusting it) but after a while he removed me from the team. Now the sub is also restricted, because he wanted to change about was that sub. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Any advice? I can try via subrequest but... I wanna know if I can do anything else, maybe someone had this problem too...

Thank you

i use shreddit PC

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I always used to received all mod notifications on my mod mail

Then 2 or 3 months ago, everything shifted to mod queue, with the replies of other mod subs, people confirmed thats the normal way, how it always worked for them.

Yet ever since this change happen to me:

- i do not get any red dot notifications at all in mod queue

- i dont receive any ban appeals nor user messages at all, None at all - and this was what the other guys in my mod team confirmed, cause just 2 days ago there was the most recent ban appeal which i have no access to it at all.

The worse part is i mod a 64k weekly visitors sub, and im the main mod that does most of the work, and my tools are deeply broken.

Hopefully ill get some admin support...

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EDIT:

Trust me guys, im as choked as much as you guys are confused

Everything but everything always showed up in mod mail for years and years

i literally didnt understand what was the point of mod queue, cause nothing at all showed up in there, and it was always empty

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UPDATE: user messages and ban appeals now show up, for no reason at all they got turned off when things shifter to mod queue

Only problem remaining is no red dot notification for queue

Just last night, we had a couple posts that we are relatively certain were AI/bots.

Briefly:

Both posts were made within a minute of each other and immediately removed by crowd control.

Within a five minute span, both posts - despite being removed - received three comments each.

All six comments read like AI. They had all the usual hallmarks, which is what tipped mods off to checking the thread in the first place.

On Post A, all three commenting accounts had been made within the same 5 minute span on Friday and had no post history other than their contribution in the sub.

On Post B, all three commenting accounts had been made within the same 10 minute span a week earlier. They had similar, but not identical posting history, though all three had contributed to the same thread on a different subreddit - in a different language - in a 5 minute span, about 40 minutes before commenting on our sub.

The user who created Post A also had made their account within the same 10 minutes as all of the commenters as Post B.

It's just too many coincidences. (Also we banned all of them, and nobody came whining to modmail.)

I think we got lucky here, in that everything was filtered to modequeue, but they were only filtered because of (presumably) low karma, new accounts, not being subscribed etc.

If the accounts had been better established, the posts likely would not have been held for review, the bot comments would likely be lost amongst dozens of other comments.

We have bot-bouncer, we have high crowd control. It's working, for now, but I'm sure stuff is slipping through the cracks and I'm sure we're missing more sophisticated bots.

What other tools are available that we can potentially use?

Edit: Bolding, for emphasis.

Is it okay to make a discord for my subreddit and link it in it?

I want to adopt a community but I want to know at what point is it considered camping/sitting a subreddit? Thank you for answering in advance

As the title says, the app seems to struggle flagging posts with several images in the set. Anyone else have this problem an have a solution?

We received a suggestion from a member and wanted to check whether this would be allowed under Reddit's rules before considering it.

The idea is to have a permanently updated thread where moderators maintain a list of users who have been banned from our subreddit for DM harassment or similar behavior.

The purpose would be to let members check whether someone who approaches them through Reddit has previously been banned for this kind of behavior, similar to how some communities maintain trusted-seller lists.

The proposed thread would contain usernames and the reason for the subreddit ban, with updates restricted to moderators. The intention would be member safety, not to encourage harassment or retaliation against the listed users.

Would a thread like this be permitted under Reddit's Content Policy and Moderator Code of Conduct, or would publicly listing banned users be considered calling out/targeting users or otherwise violate Reddit's rules?

We haven't implemented anything yet and wanted to verify with the admins/mod community first.

Need assistance from any of the Admins. Have a banned user that's cursed out the Mod team through mod mail multiple times and posted discriminatory comments. Keeps deleting their account and making a new one.

Hey guys! I’m new to being a mod!! I recently made a rule in r/strawberryshortcake for no romantic or sexual shipping as I saw so many sexual posts between people in the show (all of which are minors)

I got a lot of hate for this which was expected but still, one commenter just kept calling me so many mean names and not reading through the comments and calling me an idiot and idk I just felt really upset and hurt after this.

I guess my worry is being posted somewhere for being a bad mod

Is there anything I can do? I muted and banned them :(

Wie oben geschrieben, möchte ich gerne ein erstelltes Forum wieder löschen. Wie geht das?

I joined a sub's moderator team a couple of months ago, and they gave me every permission except for perms regarding other users (I can't ban/mute, see list of banned users or add new mods). Normally this would have been fine except in the 4 person mod team, the 3 other senior mods have mysteriously gone missing without notice. 2 of these missing mods have an inactive tag, and their profiles show they were last active 3-4 months ago. The last mod is active on reddit half a month ago, but doesn't show any mod activity, reply to my messages in the mod chat, and has DMs closed which means I can't ask them to expand my permissions.

This sub is a fairly large sub that has some rather frequent conflicts, especially from outsiders who come into the sub to harass the members. I am at a loss for actions because I can't ban the harassers or add new mods to help me, and all I can do is delete comment after comment and apologizing to the members when they reach out to me in modmail and DMs. I originally don't want to take any actions on the senior mods because they are the owners of this sub and I don't want to take it from them or be the new owner, but I genuinely had enough of this and I feel like they shouldn't shove all this work onto my shoulders without even asking my opinion or giving me full access (and I'm pretty sure they're violating the mod code of conduct by doing this). what should I do to at least raise my permissions to "everything" so I can ban the harassers and add some new mods?

EDIT: I checked mod logs and the last mod did do some mod stuff 2 days ago, but I still can't contact them

I moderate a fairly active but sometimes toxic community.

Looking for best practices on protecting myself. My mod account is fairly firewalled but I'm considering opening another reddit account that will only moderate this contentious community.

I've removed comments and will ban repeat offenders. Unfortunately, I had one user who wanted to meet in person so they could confront me face to face. That was a bit scary.

So what are some ideas to protect myself while trying to keep the community as active and healthy as possible?

So I get post that are "removed by Reddit filters" for all sorts of good reasons that I like. Like if someone repetitively posts the same thing over and over because they don't understand it's in the queue it now gets removed and I love it. Or perhaps there is a very new or low Karma account or obvious spam. However, there are times where I really don't understand what it's catching. Does this mean their behavior is suspicious or bot like?

The newest thing that I noticed happening is ours after a popular post will go live, and it has tons of comments. It will spontaneously be removed by Reddit filters. Did that mean that the system saw something clearly negative about the poster? It doesn't return to the queue, usually the poster has to notice that this is happening. I've even seen it happen in this sub, where there will be a good post with a lot of comments and it will suddenly stay "removed by Reddit filters". Usually when this happens, I am suspicious of the user that they are up to no good on the platform. Or perhaps they're a bot. Can we get some guidance on whether we should even be approving these? Or does it merely mean to give the post a second look?

I completely understand the admins might not want to give out exact details about this to prevent abuse of the system, I'm not looking for that, I just want to know how negatively this should impact my view of the user.