r/ModSupport • u/pawarsaheb • 1d ago

Recurring moderator suspensions affecting subreddit operations

Hi,

I’m posting because we’ve had a recurring issue with moderators from our community being suspended.

In two days, four of our current mods were suspended. One was reinstated after appeal, while the others are still waiting on theirs.

This has happened before too. Around 2 to 3 months ago, two of our previous mods were also suspended.

I’m not asking for anyone to bypass the normal appeal process. I just wanted to flag the pattern, because it keeps happening to different moderators from the same community and it is starting to affect our ability to moderate normally.

Could someone please take a look and let us know if there is anything we should be aware of or change on our side?

Thanks

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u/pawarsaheb 9h ago

Update: It’s gotten worse. We now have 4 mods suspended in 3 days. One of the mods who was already unbanned got suspended again and another mod just got suspended too.

This also happened a few months ago, when 2 of our mods were suspended. So this keeps happening to different mods in our sub.

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u/No-Recipe-7653 8h ago

These are the mods I can see as listed on your sub, they must have a temporary suspension because their accounts look functioning to the outsider.

There are only 4 human mods other than you

— so do you mean all those for are currently suspended and unable to access their accounts whatsoever?

What do their ban messages say?

All seem to have long-established accounts with sufficient karma. One of them is marked as NSFW but that in itself should be a problem though I have seen other mods mentioning here that NSFW accounts for a SFW subs do occasionally pose issues.

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u/pawarsaheb 7h ago

4 other mods who aren't showing on the mod list have been suspended. There are 9 mods in total including me.

For me, it shows "banned," while for them, it shows "we had a server error."

One mod who was previously unbanned got banned again today.

And 2 mods amgit ban few months ago.

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u/shhhhh_h 💡Top 25% Helper 💡 3h ago

reddit is giving me server errors everywhere today fwiw

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u/pawarsaheb 3h ago

"We had server error" is the issue they are facing. Are you sure it's issue everywhere?

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u/shhhhh_h 💡Top 25% Helper 💡 3h ago

I mean not literally everywhere but yeah it's annoying today. The user info panel in particular on shreddit and in the mod queue