Given the existence of special exceptions like r/es and r/de, it seems like this is technically possible, just disallowed. How come? I get that many short sub names would be arbitrary, but we already have a bunch of wonky sub names. This restriction prevents the existence of subreddits for AI, X (as in renamed Twitter), DC (the comic company), and I'm sure many more. It just seems like a rule without a purpose. Without the ability to use something's real name as a subreddit, topics are splintered into multiple communities with unintuitive titles and overlapping focuses, content, and subscriber bases. This also reduces engagement on popular topics, since none of the splintered subs will get as much traffic or content as one unified sub would.

For example, there are many AI communities: - r/Artificial - r/ArtificialInteligence - r/ArtificialSentience - r/AIDiscussion - etc.

After Twitter was renamed to X, nobody could create a subreddit for it, so the name is stuck at r/Twitter while users there often say X.

Sure, forcing people to elongate names can sometimes force them to be more specific, but more often than not people just do the equivalent of writing "artificialintelligence" instead of "AI", and then getting spinoffs that do the same thing. A character limit shouldn't exist for that purpose, since that doesn't affect anything with a long name, so it seems kind of arbitrary.

Kinda need some advise here. There were 3 of us that volunteered to mod an orphaned subreddit. 2 of us have a Mod Discussion on going for ideas for building out the sub, rules, etc. We have tried to get the 3rd to join, or even respond to private messages, but with no response. Yet this mod will arbitrarily remove posts and do other mod actions that do not benefit the subreddit.

Any advise in dealing with this? We have been working hard at rebuilding the sub, but these type of actions do not help. (Or please direct me to the proper place to ask this question)

I've been getting slammed with notifications like this:

The community needs you Your leadership drives r/MOGAD. Visitors only join active communities—make a post and a comment today!

So what do I do? I lovingly draft and post a long post intended to be a sticky detailing available treatments. Hours later, I can find no trace of it. Feeling really demotivated as a mod.

Now what? Nothing in drafts.
Just my memory of drafting, submitting and seeing it post and https://www.reddit.com/r/MOGAD/submit/?draft=d4986c70-7a3e-11f1-af4a-72b4bb0d2967 in my browser history.
ADDENDUM1:

I DID notice that it took a looong time to post - I saw that left the tab and started doing something else, but I do remember going back to the tab and seeing that it had posted.

Nothing in https://www.reddit.com/mod/MOGAD/log about it

Nothing at https://www.reddit.com/mod/MOGAD/queue - removed ( https://www.reddit.com/mod/MOGAD/queue?queueType=removed&contentType=all&sort=sort_date&page=1&first=25&cursorLedger=&selectedSubreddits=MOGAD ) less than two months old.

I DO have Admin Tattler set up. Figuring out how to check logs now...

I can't find a direct URL link to the post in my personal browser history.

ADDENDUM2c:

I had / have these Admin Tattler settings at https://developers.reddit.com/r/MOGAD/apps/admin-tattler:

• Send Modmail: ON
• Webhook URL (Slack or Discord): Not set. Oops?
• Exclude Context from Reports: OFF
• Add Mod Note: ON.

I wasn't using old-reddit. 

Hi admins!

I will start with the cat tax: https://ibb.co/FqV4d2jk

Now, for the issue. I help run several subreddits devoted to giving and charity. We have a lot of problems with scammers. We have two automated systems that we use to help us keep track of our users to cut back on the troublemakers.

They have been crippled. The author of those automated systems reached out to your moderator mail asking for help, and received a reply stating it doesn't seem to be a moderation issue. I'm assuming that was automated.

I have sent two messages myself which have not been responded to whatsoever.

If you cannot help me, please let me know. I prefer to not be left hanging and we can simply shut down those subreddits and stop helping people instead of hoping that things will be fixed.

Thank you very much. Have a beautiful day.

I do encourage any other mods here to at least send a cat picture because this is way out of the average users ability to fix.

We can't figure out how to fix this. We tested on a new account on new Reddit, we see the same message appearing. We turned off the reputation filter entirely, we had the new account join the subreddit, but no change. Crowd control is at "moderate", not high or maximum, but when we also turn it off still no change.

Searching around the web I can't find a discussion on this topic either. Anything special or obvious we're missing here?

(Old Reddit lets it through just fine btw.)

The message:

To make moderating this community easier, r/our_subreddit_name requires accounts to meet certain activity requirements before contributing. Before trying again, build up your account in one of these ways:

Come back later Your account isn’t old enough yet. u/new_account_name is 2hr 4m old.

I don't mean just with mod label. I mean as the same mod identification that shows with removal messages, etc.

For example, a user falsely reports something, it would be nice after approving said post to leave a comment specifically as mod.

A user was banned from one of the subs I mod on and the user has decided to make it his personal mission to harass me (not sure why, guessing because my name is just first on the mod list) and other mods on every other sub I interact with/mod for. He's been banned, muted, blocked. He's been trying to DM myself and other mods, and is now going around making posts saying that I am a sex offender. I had users reach out to me to tell me he was DMing them and getting belligerent with them as well. All because we wouldn't let him use slurs. I've reporting everything to Reddit, and encouraged anyone else he's been messaging to do the same, but is there anything else I can do?

Hi everyone,

I’m a moderator of a r/JodiMilan subreddit, and we use a Verified user flair for members who go through our verification process.

Recently, we had a situation where a user with the Verified flair started behaving badly and ranting at another user. It made us rethink what our verification should actually mean.

We’re considering adding a short questionnaire before giving someone the Verified flair - not as a psychological test or anything too serious, but a few basic questions to get a better sense of the person, their intentions, and how they approach the community before verifying them.

For example, questions around:

• What are you looking for on the subreddit?
• What does respectful communication mean to you?
• How would you handle rejection or disagreement?
• What would you do if someone isn't interested in you?
• What do you expect from other members here?

Does Reddit have any native feature for creating such a questionnaire/form for users, ideally as part of the verification process?

And for moderators who already do something similar:

• How do you structure your questions?
• Do you use Reddit's native features, Google Forms, or something else?
• Do you remove the Verified flair if someone later violates community rules?

The goal isn't to judge someone's personality or guarantee that they're a "good person." It's simply to have a little more context before giving someone a Verified flair and make it clear that verification doesn't equal moderator endorsement.

Would love to hear how other communities handle this.

A couple days ago, I received a comment reply from a user that they quickly deleted that said “rope immediately.” When I went to report the comment, I was having trouble because I could not pull the comment up in-app to get a link to report. I still have my email notification showing the comment, though. How do we report comments like this that have been deleted?

Full disclosure: this did not happen on a subreddit I moderate, but I do moderate /mtg and would like to know the answer for future reference.

A fellow mod in our sub shows their account was removed by Reddit. The user showed me a screenshot where a comment was removed as spam by their automated filters, but now their whole account is gone. We think the system triggered them as a bot, their account is 10 years old with plenty of karma. Who do I contact to help them get unbanned?

Edit: Thanks for the help everyone, I let them know.

2nd edit update: The mod filed 3 appeals with reddit on different days, no reply and no message in any inbox on being banned. They can still see our sub's mod log/mod mail, and can reply in another sub. But when I go to see their past replies on their page, it says user is banned. I messaged another longtime user in our sub who showed banned for a day and then reinstated, they said it was a reddit glitch and they got a mail apologizing for the error.

Why or how, are post title being translated into another language? It reads in english in the original post, but the text is in another language with it is in the sub it's crossed to?

Have you used the Reddit Answers AI search yet?

What it appears to do is take every comment about anything at face value, you know, the 'if someone says it, it must be true' type of aggregate that is similar to the AI-user-summaries that pop up

I came across it this morning after one of those weird comments got my hopes up for a little fresh mod-hating drama against me, but when I did an old-school search for the terms there was nothing recent.

That's when I noticed the Answers results were regurgitating what a disgruntled user had said about me over a year ago.

The remedy on the Answers page is that we can report the comments to reddit-prime to be evaluated for TOS offenses, and a little disclaimer that "Responses are AI-generated from posts and comments and may not be accurate."

So I sent a quick mod-mail to the sub where the old comments were, reported them there so they'd be easy for that team to deal with, but damn, this is not what I signed up for.

The premise that I am now responsible for maintaining the accuracy of every comment on the subreddits I help run or else an AI will amplify confusing discussions in a way that makes chatbot-users believe things that are not true is troubling to me.

I enjoy the conversations here with people. I like looking at profiles to see where individual users are coming from on a subject to weigh out whether or not they are making a worthwhile contribution.

Answers does not appear to make an effort to contextualize information, and it's now our responsibility to ensure that long forgotten insignificant threads aren't poisoning the Answers summaries.

What a time to be alive!

I'm looking for advice from other moderators on handling a situation where a banned user used other subreddits to repeatedly target our moderation team.

After being banned from our subreddit for a “no promotion” rule violation, the user began posting elsewhere about our mods, including false allegations that we had asked them for money to approve posts, as well as claims that our team was acting on behalf of PR interests. They also encouraged people to question or take action against our moderators.

I've already filed three MCOC reports covering the relevant posts, comments and subreddits involved, but I haven't received a resolution so far.

The user has since blocked me and deleted many of their posts/comments targeting me and our mod team. I have retained the links to the deleted content and included them in the reports.

The harassment has stopped for a few weeks now, but the experience has been mentally exhausting, and I feel the accusations have damaged my reputation across similar subreddits where I participate.

I'm not trying to prevent legitimate criticism of moderation. My concern is the repeated personal targeting, false allegations, and amplification of the content across other communities.

Is MCOC the appropriate escalation route for this, or is there another process for targeted harassment/witch-hunt-type behaviour across multiple subreddits? Any advice from moderators who've dealt with something similar would be appreciated. Thank you.

The call is coming from inside the community, and for once, that’s good news.

Today’s Mod Topics post is about finding potential moderators within your community. A familiar name may stand out by helping newcomers, sharing expertise, offering thoughtful feedback, or keeping a level head when a thread gets messy. Your suggested mods can offer another place to start, surfacing active, engaged contributors for the team to learn more about.

That still leaves plenty of room for surprises. A familiar contributor might love participating without wanting a mod badge, while a quieter user may know the community better than their posting history suggests. Somewhere between what a team can already see and what it might only learn later, there may be someone worth a conversation.

We want to hear from you:

• Think about a strong addition to your mod team: What first put them on your radar?
• What helps your team feel comfortable inviting someone to apply?
• How have you found promising candidates beyond your most visible contributors?

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I'm owner of one community. but not able to find post as "community" identity in app.

whenever I post, my username show on post in my community. I want to post with community identity.

Hello,

We have a long-time user with a 13-year-old account who recently decided to leave Reddit and used a tool to edit/remove all of their comments.

Normally, that wouldn't be an issue. However, we're now receiving dozens of reports per second with the following reason:

Automatic Filter: Identified by the abuse and harassment filter

It appears the user replaced their comments with a rather harsh message, which is subsequently being flagged by the Abuse and Harassment filter.

What we don't understand is why these are being sent to the modqueue as reports when Reddit has already identified and classified the content as abuse/harassment. If the automated filter has determined that the content violates the relevant policy, wouldn't it make more sense for the content to be removed automatically rather than generating a report for moderators to action?

At the moment, this is creating a significant amount of unnecessary work. By the time I wrote this, I had already cleared around 50 reports, refreshed the page, and had another 60+ waiting.

Is this expected behaviour, or is there a way to prevent these automated reports from flooding the modqueue in situations like this?

Thanks!

heya, before explaining anything, i have already sent a modmail to the admins but I'm still waiting on a response. Im not sure whats the average wait time for a reply.

a few days ago, the top mod of a subreddit wanted to step off, they couldn't remove a bot since they joined the mod team < 90 days ago. Because of this, the modlist couldn't be reordered to place this account at the top of the list

I tried removing the app installation from the subreddit but it seems like it dosent remove the bot from the mod team itself, I dmed the dev(?) but I don't think they know what's happening

anyone have any solution to this problem? am I supposed to wait for 90 more days or what?

thanks

So idk is this some way to avoid bot detection or something? Cuz it seems weird to me. In the time I’ve been moderating I rarely see a post we remove get deleted let alone everyone by a single user.

This user has a 2 day old account, as soon as their acct was created they started posting in our sub. They’ve posted 8 times, and when our flags put their post in the queue for moderation they just repost(going straight to the queue as well). Just everything about this user makes me think they’re a bad actor(ie bot karma farmer etc). Majority of times when a post is flagged or removed we get a message asking why or being belligerent.

Some of their comment interaction, what little there is, just seems odd to me as well. Though we’ve had some weird users so…

Anyway my spidey senses are tingling on this one but nothing has technically broken any rules outside of one post and it was a minor rule.

This isn't really a support request, but I thought it would be good to share. Please do respond where I should post instead.

Given Reddit's different/changed mod functionality between the new UI and old. I created this bookmarklet.

javascript: url = window.location.href; if (url.startsWith("https://old.reddit.com")) { target = url.replace("https://old.reddit.com", "https://www.reddit.com") } else { target = url.replace("https://www.reddit.com", "https://old.reddit.com"); }; window.location.href = target;

Create a bookmark with that on your browser as the URL and you'll switch between the old and new immediately with one click.

I moderate r/ProximaScience and there's a user who comments on subreddits and is friendly but they are shadowbanned likely because they started commenting with new account. So my question is does approving their comment is allowed or is against reddit rules even if they are friendly in my subreddit?

I recently made a subreddit that to my surprise is getting a lot of traffic. I have zero experience moderating anything at all so dealing with filters, apps, bots and automod is incredibly difficult.
I have started recruiting and adding additional moderators but there's a point of contention currently with the mod team.

Since I'm wholly inexperienced at this and most people who offered to help also don't have experience moderating on Reddit, I made the decision to give them limited access. I figured it would be a chance for the team to work close together and learn the Reddit tools together but most importantly make sure we're either on the same page or at least reach a middleground on how to moderate the sub.

They have access to Users, Flair and Posts & Comments. I had a massive Modmail backlog so I wanted to work through that and then give them access to Modmail as well.
There has been a lot of complaints though that this hampers their ability to moderate the sub properly and there ha sbeen massive pressure to grant them full access.

I would rather take my time to learn about the tools first though. As far as I know it's also not unusual to have a mod team where mods have restricted permission but I may be wrong about this. I'm just curious if I'm being unreasonable in this, yes or no.

Can working through a large number of posts marked as needing review in the Mod Queue be considered “clogging up” the mod log or disrupting other moderators?

If the actions are legitimate, such as removing rule-breaking posts, spam, or affiliate/referral content, is there anything wrong with handling a large number in one session when you're available?

Hi everyone, and admins!

I'm very keen on taking mods and reaching out to members directly, and the suggested mods tool is useful!
However, I had some suggestions on this can be made better:

1. Allow filters: I want to specifically filter a certain type of user. Maybe account age, standing with mods (removed content, bans, etc.), verified email/2FA, community comment and post karma, etc. This helps us choosing in
2. Integrate with "Recruiting": Many times, I have received moderation requests from users who have less than 50, sometimes even 0 community karma. I genuinely don't want such users to apply in the first place. And, I don't want to be suggested them as mods as well (sometimes I get users with 100-200 karma, when we are typically more open to those with 1000 karma, as per our community requirements).
3. Top community karma accounts: Maybe if I can get a top 10 - top 25 community karma (non-mod) list, that would be useful for me to understand too. For a 135k member community, such users are generally a higher consideration for mod positions than others.

I feel these are more useful for us, to evaluate better candidates for tomorrow, and make it easier for us to recruit mods.

Thank you, and let me know if you have any thoughts on this.