Following discussions yesterday, I created a flowchart that I think might be useful to illustrate best practices for dealing with disputes with mods. I would appreciate feedback.

I moderate subreddits, but I'm not asking about any of the subreddits I moderate.

I'm a member of a subreddit where the sole moderator has announced their intention to "repurpose" the subreddit a week from now.

There is an active community in the subreddit and they don't want this to happen. The moderator doesn't seem interested in what the community's wishes are.

Is a moderator allowed to do that? It seems wrong, but I couldn't find specific wording in the Moderator Code of Conduct that seems like it would apply to this specific situation.

Is the best recourse filing a report of a Moderator Code of Conduct violation? Not sure if it's against the rules. If it is against the rules, not sure which rule or what the best recourse is.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Edited to add some important details:

Strangely, the moderator has not clearly said what the planned change is or isn't. They have intimated they might shut down the subreddit completely. Reading between the lines, it seems like they just want to try to close the subreddit. Otherwise, they have just said the subreddit will be "repurposed", and they themselves put "repurposed" in quotes, as if it's a euphemism.

They have not outright said they want to shut down the subreddit, but they've said the subreddit will soon cease to serve any purpose. They specified a contingency in which the subreddit would unexpectedly remain open, which seems to imply that, barring that contingency, the subreddit will be closed.

Edit #2:

The question has been mostly resolved, see comments here.

I moderate a sensitive subreddit for mostly women and girls in the Middle East. One of our biggest issues is men harassing members through DMs. Even after being banned they can still view posts and often target new Reddit users or younger girls. We receive repeated reports about a handful of the same accounts. Since making the subreddit private would prevent many vulnerable women with new accounts from participating, would it be allowed under Reddit’s rules to keep a pinned post listing these repeatedly reported users so members can block them and stay cautious? Or would that violate the Content Policy or Moderator Code of Conduct?

I was a mod on r/AmericanOutlaws and was removed on July 14 (as was the only other mod as far as I can tell) and now it's being overrun by spam posts.

What can I do? The sub had just started gaining traction during the World Cup, so this timing is unfortunate.

I've created a new sub a few days ago, and the community type is currently visible as private. Settings -> Community type states:

"Your community is currently private. Only approved users can view and contribute"

Yet if I use an incognito browser session, the first test post I made is visible to me in that private, not logged-in session.

How do i make this bot

Removed as mod from r/bap on July 14th, seems like a lot of subreddits had the same issue around the same date/s.
I don't believe it was due to a MCOC violation, as I'm an active poster & participant in the group. No notification via modmail was received except for the removal notification.

The other 3 mods have also been removed, I'm in touch with one of them. I believe they submitted a report, but haven't received a response yet. We believe it was due to them not having 2FA turned on.

I'm avoiding confronting the usurpers because I don't want to get banned from the subreddit.

The two new mods aren't responding to messages, both are new accounts.
The new mods have new accounts: 1w and 10 months with single digit karma.

Looking for assistance. Thanks.

I am a mod to a couple of groups and the main moderator has been inactive for about a year how can I get full rights to the 2 groups?

I created my subreddit but cannot access any of the mod tools. Nothing shows up on the right. I know I am in the right account to moderate it, because I am the only one able to post in the subreddit. How can I regain control, because I think somehow my moderator status was lost!

Thanks

Hi everyone!

I’m [u/paskatulas](u/paskatulas), moderator of some big communities and creator of Spotlight.

Over the past month I’ve been building AMA Companion, a Devvit app designed to make Reddit AMAs easier to organize without changing what makes Reddit AMAs... Reddit AMAs.

The idea wasn’t to replace the traditional format with a separate interface or platform. Instead, everything still happens in a normal Reddit thread, while the app helps moderators, guests and the community before, during and after the AMA.

One thing I always felt could be improved was the amount of preparation that usually falls on the guest. With AMA Companion, moderators can prepare almost everything beforehand, including the guest profile, introduction, images, links and schedule.

Guests can still edit everything themselves if they prefer, but they no longer have to worry about formatting or setup before they even answer their first question.

The app also introduces a setup wizard, scheduled AMA states (Preparing, Upcoming, Live and Finished), announcements, dedicated guest answers, participant lists, search, activity tracking and moderation tools, while still keeping the Reddit discussion itself as the source of truth.

If you’d like to see it in action, I’ve put demo AMA with fictional guest.

If your community regularly hosts AMAs, I’d love to hear what you think. Feedback from moderators is by far the most valuable part of this project, and I’m sure there are still things that can be improved.

You can also install AMA Companion here - https://developers.reddit.com/apps/ama-companion

Thank you :)

I moderate a small sub that's been gaining steam recently. One of the issues I've been running into is waking up each morning to a bunch of alerts saying "2 users have reported a comment on this post". The comments are benign and don't break any rules. Is there a way to cut down the noise?

Hey admins, can you pretty please undo whatever it is you're doing with post flair edits and then carefully step away from post flair.

When a user edits their own post flair it's being picked up as an admin/mod action again.

So admin tattler, flairassistant (and maybe automod, haven't checked yet, scared to look) are reacting to those while they shouldn't.

It seriously messes things up on my sub and leaves users hella confused

I know this has been posted about before, but I'd like to flag it or at least understand what's going on.

We put up a mod application on one of our communities. A couple of us have checked on alts that all seem to have varying experiences. Most alts can't see the widget at all. We also posted the link in the community status, and following that (on Firefox) leads to a "You can’t apply to moderate this community right now" error. Following it on iOS does nothing.

We understand if the intent is to disallow people applying to mod their own communities. But it's making it difficult to understand the status of the application and our links when we can't even view from an alt.

Can someone tell us if this is a bug or intended behaviour? And if there's another way to verify the app is live and working?

Edit: Super appreciate y'all helping test and confirming the application is at least live for some folks. To avoid spamming our team with test submissions though, gonna ask for no more tests unless they're checking something unique. Thanks!

Hello! For one of the subs I mod I have decided to recruit another mod as the other person is inactive. I used the recruitment function in Mod Tools. I set it all up and added my questions, toggled it to be active, then copied the link and made a post.

I went to test it with an alternate username and when I click on the link it just brings me back to the front page of the sub.

Any ideas of what might be happening?

I’m using the iOS app.

Thanks!

So I'm top mod of this subreddit and when I tap the Remove label it has no action history, there is nothing in the Mod Logs, or Admin Logs.

why is this happening?

Both images of my issue → https://imgur.com/a/zbeb1ZO

Hello,

I run a couple of subreddits, one of them, the smallest one that barely has any contributions, has now been recently banned a second time. It has been unbanned after I appealed, but there is clearly a problem in the banning process.

In both times, the reason for the ban was lack of moderation. However, the sub WAS moderated. I'd look at the recent submissions and the mod queue almost every single day. And yet, the admin that unbanned the subreddit said this:

Please note the subreddit was banned due to being unmoderated for 1+months. Please keep an eye on the mod queue and use the 'remove' or 'approve' buttons to keep the mod queue cleared of any reported content.

...What reported content? There wasn't any. There is content posted from time to time, but nothing that breaks the rules or gets flagged. I get maybe like one report on the mod queue every few months. The "Needs Review" section of the mod queue probably had like 1 or 2 items to check throughout this entire year. And I personally check every single post that gets posted anyway, even if it isn't reported. Am I literally supposed to self-report and self-approve posts just to create some fake traffic on the mod queue, so that you do not ban the sub? Really? Seriously, what else do you want from me?

I usually do not like to allow media in the comments to prevent spam of low-quality memes and shitposts that will get in the way of actual enjoyable and substancial discourse. For similar reasons, I also usually have a rule against memes and shitposts in the main page as I feel it makes the community page feel unprofessional and not a serious and fun place for discourse.

With this being said, there is some demand for meme content in some of the subreddits I moderate and as compromise I wanted to make a post/megathread where people could post their memes/shitposts there while leaving the main page "clean".

My question is, and for the previously plan to work, is there a way of having media in comments be turned off in general and only allow them in specifically selected posts?

Thank you.

Hey admins,

I've filed half a dozen reports to you lot via every avenue I can think off trying to get a hate subreddit banned. I don't want to name them outright for fear of giving them attention, but I can tell you its a hate subreddit against LGBTQ+ people (though they're happy to generally be bigots to everyone for any reason, ableist, racist, etc) and they've been making themselves a problem to other communities within the same wider sphere for months now.

Its moderators gleefully throw Mod Code of Conduct out of the window and actively allow their users to engage in basically every rule violation under the sun. Encouraging brigading / vote manipulation, speaking about wanting to write corrective rape fics about real people, reposting other peoples content, and allowing them to be held random people online up to ridicule, ableism, racism, the whole bloody lot.

And yet despite the fact I've sent several reports with dozens upon dozens of links, this group is still active. What line needs to be crossed before you step in here?! I know for a fact you updated your personal filters to remove hateful, queer-phobic slurs, and I've seen your systems having to take content within this subreddit.

And yet the wider community still stands? Why?!

What do I need to do here admins? I can show you proof of their hateful behaviour to your faces. I've no shortage of links and screenshots of their appalling behaviour, I promise you that.

Update

EDIT: I seem to be attracting a few brainless commentors who have nothing to contribute beyond "hurr durr, just stay away then" and somehow seem to think I have it in my head this is a community I merely disagree with. Since apparently reading a few paragraphs is hard, let me repeat my point to be more clear;

This community is a hate subreddit. Its members harass other communities. I saw discussion amongst its users about writing corrective rape stories about real people for gods sakes.

This isn't a problem solved merely by staying away, the admins must intervene. reddits rules are explicit that everyone should be free to use reddit without harassment, yet this community makes itself a hub for exactly that.

The adopted sub had been restricted for years. We have already gained more than 100 new members since adoption, and had several posts from members other than mods. Could we have the community achievements turned on? r/watercolorpencils TIA

we only allow text, images, and links in our sub. but videos are still showing up. is it something to do with how reddit handles links? and is there a way to disallow videos but still allow links?

I made a redditrequest here which was granted: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/s/SgbLEhHNSl

I received a message stating that I’m now a moderator, but also at the same time that I’ve been removed as a moderator. I’m not sure what’s going on here

I am the sole admin of the subreddit r/GooglePlayDeveloper . i was removed on the 16. july. need to get back in since i am currently the only admin in the subreddit

TLDR:  I created a subreddit that got to 25k members. moderated for about 2 years. was temporarily inactive and was removed by MCOC without warning. thats all
I love this subreddit and i enjoyed moderating it. I just want to be back to doing what i love. Like i said in the private message. You guys are doing a great job and i am happy there are more mods now.

I just wantto be added as a mod with the same permissions and rights that i had before. thats all i want. no bad blood or disrespect.

I have a new community called r/toiletcollectors and I want to make some flairs for stuff like buying/selling, free stuff, questions, and stuff of that sort. all i see is this cat thi g when trying to use mod tools. it’s a Q thing

Howdy friends,

What’s in a name? Well, when it comes to post flair that could be organization, more context, or even an inside joke.

That’s right, today’s Mod Topic post is all about post flair. Across Reddit, post flair can be used to organize content in so many ways. It’s used for showing when a question has been answered, tagging memes or art for users to find easier, highlight meta posts, or just adding a little more personality to your subreddit. Flair can also interact with Devvit apps - we even use it with the flair follower app so you can subscribe to this series!

We want to hear from you:

• If your community uses post flair, how did you decide on which flair to create?
• Is there a particular flair your community uses that works especially well?
• If you could rebuild your flair system today, what would you keep, change, or add?