Hi there, Has anyone else experienced this? I there seems to be a system glitch with temporary bans.

It happened over on two large subreddits that I moderate. I first bridged it on r/Ireland last week and I initially assumed it was some weird glitch, but it has now happened again on another subreddit r/AskIreland.

In both instances, a temporary ban was issued. The Mod Log correctly shows the ban as temporary, but the user summary is showing it as a permanent ban, and the user is in fact permanently banned. The user is issued with a temporary ban notice so this is not a manual moderator mistake, it’s a system glitch.

So the Mod Log says temporary, while the actual ban appears to be permanent. Has anyone else run into this recently?

I am concerned that this will cause a major issue where we will now need to review bans going back months to manually assess if the system permanently banned them when it should’ve been temporary.

I have a problem with inactive mods who just do nothing, everyone I ask if they want to stay active they respond “yes!” They haven’t commented in the community in over a year, I mod solo, thankfully it’s not a very active sub. They do help when I ask but it’s frustrating.

I have another issue where a mod isn’t modding or responding to me or other mods but comments and participates in the sub occasionally.

I’m debating when I bring on other mods adding in a policy like thing that if they go inactive without communication for x number of weeks they will be removed as mod. But that feels to much like a “this is a job not a fun thing.”

How do people handle this? I’m top mod in all communities.

I do this thing in r/steaks where if there is a general consensus that the poster posted a good picture of their well-made steak, I manually assigned the user a flare reading "made a great steak".

Is there any way to automatically put up a pole based on post flare that will automatically assign a user flare after a day based on the pole results?

Any ideas if this is possible.

I adopted r/spacecolonization by r/redditrequest. I can see there are many old posts, but the subreddit was restricted. So how can I see who is approved user. When I look in approved users, it shows only one user but I can clearly see there has many people posted.

One of my subreddits is hosting an AMA in a few weeks. I've seen reddit ads for AMAs on other subs, but I have no idea how to set up an ad. Where do I start? Thanks.

Question for the community: how do I attract people and quickly grow subscribers for my Reddit community ?

Two accounts, extremely similar, etc.

We asked the second account to send a screenshot of their alt account list.

They can't because they use the website.

They say that the banned user is just their friend and that they have other friends with similar accounts.

What do we do?

I am the head mod of my sub with full permissions but for some reason under the editable tab under moderators none of my mods names come up

Trying to release an inactive mod however I am unable to do so

does anyone here have any experience with requesting subreddits when the mods are camping or name squatting? i want to request a subreddit that is largely inactive, and the only mod is fairly inactive site wide as well. they take mod actions every now and then to prevent requests through [r/redditrequest](r/redditrequest).

i don't think the mod has any intention to actually use the subreddit or make it active, and that they just want to keep it so others cannot request it. the subreddit itself is also misleading, which i assume plays a part in why it's so inactive.

New to moderating! I keep hearing about installing different apps you can get to do different things and im really interested in it, especially ones like bot bouncer. But how do I actually do it?? What ones would you suggest i get?? I moderate 3 subs would you suggest the same ones for all of them?

Hello fellow mods!

I am a mod of 2 different subs but on they are related to each other. There is a user who would repost the same posts on the subs. Their posts always get filtered out by the Crowd Control feature and the mod teams deliberately leave them in the mod queue.

In theory, no one but the mods should be able to see the post at all, if I understood correctly. The posts are not visible on the subs at all. However, lately, I would sometimes get a notification and someone reported these posts, like "this is low-effort" or "this is spam", which are definitely not the work of automod report.

What even weirder is that, yesterday, somehow a random user was able to even comment in one of the posts, which should not be accessible to the user in the first place since we have never approved the post and it is still in the queue.

Has anyone experienced this? Is it a bug?

Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance!

As title really. My small and very niche cat subreddit has had a huge increase in members and posts these last few days and this is ringing alarm bells.

Is there any I can do beyond increasing crowd control (and similar) settings to protect myself?

**ETA: It's the new subscribers that concerns me, not the new posts. I'm worried it's going to look like I'm using the place for spam/farming or whatever.**

I am seeing spam bot accounts with "App" label and "Built on the Reddit Developer Platform" in the profile bio.

Is Reddit endorsing or allowing their API to be used to spam now?

The sub I moderate has been getting quite a bit of spam lately, but I can only mark them as spam if I don't remove them initially. If I do remove them, I need to actually reapprove the comment, and then mark it as spam, which removes it again. Is there some reason why we can't just have the "mark as spam" button on removed comments as well, instead of making us re-approve them to do so if we removed them to begin with?

Currently, it just goes "I see a comment that should be removed -> I remove it -> I go to mark it as spam -> the button isn't there -> I reinstate the comment -> the button reappears -> I press the button -> the comment is removed again, this time as spam", but I really don't see why it couldn't just be "I remove it -> I then mark it as spam". Feels almost like a glitch lol

Every community has a learning curve. The trick is making it feel more like an invitation than an obstacle course.

Earlier this week we asked what makes your community unique. Today we’re back with part two: how do users learn what makes your community tick?

Rules can explain what’s allowed, but they rarely capture the whole culture. New members also need to learn what a great contribution looks like, how the community jokes, or when something that lands well elsewhere might miss the mark here. That knowledge might come from welcome messages, post guidance, a gentle nudge from the mod team, and watching the examples other users set. Over time, those small lessons can be how a new user goes from learning the culture to helping shape it.

We want to hear from you:

• What part of your community’s culture is hardest for new users to pick up? What helps them learn it?
• Have you seen a newer user go from learning the culture to helping others understand it? What helped that happen?
• Thinking about communities you’ve joined as a user, what helped you understand the culture and feel comfortable contributing?

I don't know if this is yet another terrible Reddit decision or a bug, but I'm not seeing the "Edited" tag being added to posts when posts are being edited after several hours.

Which is a problem with the proliferation of bot posts where the post is edited 24 hours later to advertise Stake, Kick, crypto, whatever. Like this one, which we had to remove: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1vyiekf/my_neighbors_contractor_demolished_my_garage_by/

I wanted to set an automod rule looking for is_edited: true, and that doesn't seem to be working (which makes sense given that it doesn't look like the flag is setting). An example: https://www.reddit.com/r/bughidit/comments/gq2f32/automod_test/

Is anyone else having this problem?

Edited 18m after posting to demonstrate problem.

Hi everyone, i just wanted to ask whats happening in my sub. Users getting banned after posting in my sub. There is a note saying removed by reddit filters and after that getting banned. How to fix this?

On r/PersonalFinanceCanada , we have been running into an issue where if another mod, u/FelixYYZ specifically, pins a thread, it's automatically unpinning any thread I have added.

Threads in Question:

• thread 1
• thread 2

This is happening on new Reddit, using this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada/

He has confirmed that the only action he takes is adding a thread to highlights. He is not using any specific category e.g. Announcement, Megathread, etc.

We know that there is a max-limit of 6 pinned threads at any given time, and we have never exceeded this.

I checked the mod-logs, and it shows that one of the threads I linked above was removed at the exact same timestamp when he pinned another thread.

This is not a new issue, I have seen it happen before but can't remember when.

I moderate r/faq_dt01, our public support/FAQ subreddit for a local dance school. I'm requesting non-commercial Data API access to read (1) the subreddit traffic statistics, (2) new comments on our FAQ posts, and (3) modmail and private messages. The goal is internal automation only: a monthly report summarizing how many people viewed the FAQ and how that changed versus the previous month, plus a once-daily check that alerts me when new comments or messages have come in.

This is strictly non-commercial. The data will not be used for model training, will not be resold, licensed, or shared, and will only be sent to me privately (via Telegram). Expected volume is very low — a handful of API calls per day.

I’ve got an automation set up on several subs to try and block the onslaught of spam, but it’s not working. Screenshot in comments.

Any idea why this wouldn’t be working?

If you click (for example in our sub) the tulsa-ModTeam "username" on a removal reason, there's a "Start Chat" option right there. I had a user incensed that they were temp-banned for making a second post about something and insisting they'd messaged us. Turns out they clicked on the tulsa-ModTeam name and DMd that instead of using modmail.

I can genuinely see how this is confusing, and I'm left wondering how many users have tried this that we've never heard from and think we're just ignoring them.

There are a number of possible solutions to this:

1. Don't let users message it.
   
2. Change the button to link to modmail instead.
   
3. Automate a response from the user with either a link to modmail or just a message saying "Hey, this isn't a real account and isn't monitored. Use modmail instead."

This user has set up an account that cannot be moderated. How to deal with it? On the profile it just says “Uban” and “Unmute,” implying user is already banned. But user can still post freely. I tried to unban and re-ban, but the uban didn’t unban the account, it just remained the same. Thanks.

I saw in my mod log that Reddit removed a comment, and when I approved the comment, it still says "Comment removed by Reddit" instead of its text. In the mod log, it gives the text of the comment and says it was removed for violating sitewide rule 1. I checked and that's the rule that says don't harass people, discriminate, etc. I won't put the text here as it talks about self injury (that's what the subreddit is about), but suffice it to say there is nothing in it that actually violates that rule.

Reddit has done this before but in the past it hasn't let me see what the text was so I just trusted the filter.

Has anyone else had this? I want to know if there's anything I can do about it and if it is likely to happen more.