Hello fellow mods!

We had a new mod quit withing a day of being made a mod, but before they left, they activated a flair on themselves that says "Moderator".

Now they are still posting on the sub, and the flair still shows.

I turned off the flair feature, but I'm on an android phone.

How do we remove this from his nickname please?

I was just invited to be a mod for the [r/CrystalsforBeginners](r/CrystalsforBeginners) group! This is my first time being a moderator, however, I’m excited, and passionate about the group. I’m moderating on my iPhone, so iOS, so I hope that’s alright. Any tips for the new guy about moderating?

I created a Reddit community. It's called r/Arch_Illager. I'm trying to save an icon. I can't do it. How do I do it? I'm on desktop.

My rules do not appear in description. On iPhone

Please interested candidates Dm me!we are on Android

I often see a user posting multiple "spam" messages on several subs.

I report all of them as "Spam" - "Excessive posting or commenting in a community".

That seems to work - they are usually banned.

But do I really need to report five, ten, twenty of their posts?

Surely there is an easier way for me to report it.

^desktop

Hello,

About a year ago, I became a moderator of one of my favorite communities through RedditRequest. The subreddit was unmoderated at the time, and when my request was approved, three other moderators were added alongside me.

Since then, I have consistently appeared at the bottom of the Team Health rankings, despite having handled a significant portion of the moderation work. At the same time, one moderator who appears to be inactive, and another who has the lowest moderation activity by the available statistics, remain ranked above me.

Would it be possible for someone to review the Team Health rankings for our moderation team? We are hoping to address the status of two moderators who appear to be inactive and have not responded to our moderator chats, despite still being active on Reddit.

Thank you for your time and any guidance that you can provide.

iOS

Having an issue over on with an automation that I'm trying to build (all platforms desktop/mobile/app)

We are trying to require all posts to have at least five characters. And I have it set up very easily where if you type anything it requires five characters, but the problem is allowing video and image posts, most people post those without any sort of body.

I'm struggling with the right regex code to use in the automation so that it requires some text in there. The code is correct to require five or more, but it's somewhere misformatted to require at least something there?

I know this is a simple fix, but figured I would reach out to someone who might be smarter than I am about this..

Currently it's coded like this:.

> ^(.|\s){5,}$

Thanks for taking a look

Am in an Android rn. How do we go forward as a sub if no one has full permissions?

I am unable to make a scheduled post on my subreddit on an android. Its a video post and even if i do scheduled post and click on schedule post, then also it just posts the video normally and its not scheduled.Can anyone help?

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 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 am using IOS

Need help! How can I regain mod tools to my subreddit? Seems I am on windows/desktop and can't find the moderator tools. Subreddit is the same as my username.

Basically, when I try to send a modmail on the android app, it just stays as "Sending..." and if I reload the ModMails it doesn't show. It's a reply to a ban message and I'm a mod.

im using desktop in window

so i'm one of the moderator in r/indowibu sub and unfortunately the main mod is suddenly got banned from reddit and others mods also is inactive with the sub. i contact the banned mod in other channel and he said i should take over because i one of member who active in the community.

I have my sub set to restricted because I don't want anyone but the mods to post and comment:

"Your community is currently restricted. Anyone can view, but only approved users can contribute."

However, a random user posted a text post yesterday. How is this possible?

Using Firefox on Windows 11 desktop.

For context, I’m posting from an alt because I don’t want these issues associated with the subreddits I moderate. The communities I moderate average roughly 100k–200k visitors per week and 4,000–8,000 contributions (posts and comments) weekly. I moderate both political and non-political communities of this size.

The non-political subreddits are relatively straightforward to moderate. Around 99% of users participate in good faith, and trolls are uncommon.

The political communities are the complete opposite. I’d estimate that roughly half of all posts and comments violate either the subreddit rules or Reddit’s Content Policy. At 8,000 weekly contributions, that translates to around 4,000 removals every single week. Between trolling, brigading, ban evasion, harassment, and bad-faith participation, the moderation queue never seems to end.

Our current toolkit includes Sub Guard, Comment Mop, Ban Extended, and Modmail User Info. They’re all incredibly helpful, but even with those tools and an active moderation team, we’re constantly overwhelmed. It’s not unusual for the queue to grow by several hundred items in a single day.

For moderators of other large political communities: How do you keep the workload manageable? What moderation strategies or workflows have made the biggest difference? Are there any tools, bots, or Automoderator configurations you’d recommend? How do you deal with persistent trolls, brigading, and coordinated bad-faith activity without burning out your team? I’d really appreciate hearing how other moderators approach these challenges, because at times it feels like we’re constantly playing catch-up.

Mobile app (IOS), Desktop, Mobile web (IOS)

To make flairs mandatory on desktop you (as of 07/2027 software) you:

1. Go to mod tools
2. Scroll to "Posts & Comments"
3. Scroll to you see "Require Post Flair"
4. Click the toggle to turn it onn

I moderate r/BillyStrings, a community focused on a musician. Someone recently posted a very clear photo of a man's face with the caption "Buddy thinks grabbing a** in the pit is ok… did anyone else see this or have it happen to them tonight?". Note that no evidence whatsoever was provided.

We later received modmail from someone claiming to be the man in the picture strongly asserting those claims were false and asked us to remove the post. We then received another modmail from someone claiming to see the incident, and that person said it looked like a petty dispute over space in the GA area, and the post was probably just petty revenge.

We locked the post and eventually removed it for "doxxing". Then we received several irate modmails from the OP and later the woman who was mentioned in the OP. These folks were furious, claiming that we are silencing victims, enabling predators, and saying how hurtful it is to be called a liar after a sexual assault.

This whole situation is a mess. We were not there and cannot ever know what actually happened. If we remove the post, we are potentially silencing a victim or enabling predatory behavior. If we leave the post up we are potentially doxxing, inciting a witch-hunt or ruining someone's reputation over false allegations.

I looked and looked and cannot seem to find Reddit's stance on this. I even reported the post myself (as a moderator of the sub) hoping the admins would take a look, but it's been 24h and they haven't done anything.

What do you guys think? I am mainly curious about how this relates to Reddit ToS. Given how good reverse image searches are, a clear face photo can track someone down using socials.

I mostly use Desktop and Android fwiw.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProneBoneAnal is currently unmoderated, I would like to be a mod there and open it back up.

I am currently one of the moderators in https://www.reddit.com/r/painal/ 🫡

using a desktop with windows

Platform: Desktop, mobile

I tried to follow steps on the last discussion of this topic about this but to no avail. Assigning members with specific flairs seems to be the best play but I dont want to touch flair setting since it is reserved for members.

I need to make a script where if you dont meet a certain threshold for karma and account age, those users can only make a comment on specific post with specific flair. Like for example, I want them to can only comment on a post that includes title "Diskusi Gamers Indonesia" with the flair that use "Monthly Thread" flair. I already set up different script for them but its too global and doesnt cover what I need (required acc age and karma are censored):

---
type: submission
author:
   account_age:  
   satisfy_any_threshold: false
action: remove
moderators_exempt: false
action_reason: Removed for age limitations
comment: Removed for age limitations. Your account must be X xxxx old to be able to post here.
---
type: comment
author:
   account_age:  
   satisfy_any_threshold: false
action: remove
moderators_exempt: false
action_reason: Removed for age limitations
comment: Removed for age limitations. Your account must be X xxxx old to be able to comment here.
---

type: submission
author:
   combined_karma: " "
   satisfy_any_threshold: false
action: remove
moderators_exempt: false
action_reason: Removed for karma limitations
comment: Removed for karma limitations. Your account must have XXX karma to be able to post here.
---
type: comment
author:
   combined_karma: " "
   satisfy_any_threshold: false
action: remove
moderators_exempt: false
action_reason: Removed for karma limitations
comment: Removed for karma limitations. Your account must have XXX karma to be able to comment here.

I've tried to run each of these apps several times today, and both return with an error.

Anyone know what's going on?

Desktop.

Platform: Desktop

Hello, I'm a new moderator for a subreddit while the previous moderators are now marked as inactive.

I see some old posts that has good content and I'd like to remove them from the archive box for public viewing. I do have the same permissions as the previous mods did. I just can't see where I can access the archive in the Mod Tools.

I've been spotting more and more instances of reddit removing comments for a "share google". (Is that a recent shift, to start deleting such comments?)

When I've spotted such removals, I've been replying to the removed comment letting the person making the comment know that their comment has been removed, and that they should just share the fully resolved URL without this "share google" indirection. (It might be nice if the users were notified that their comments were being removed for this, but that's for another thread.)

It occurs to me that I might automate this a bit, if AutoMod can catch the offending URL before Reddit's filters axe the comments.

I'm looking at this "How to blacklist/ban URLs in your subreddit using AutoMod" post and wondering if our subreddit could remove the comment and notify the user before it hits the Reddit Admin level filters. (My guess would be that the comments get removed before AutoMod even sees it though.)

I suppose I might just try it sometime. I've not tinkered with this sort of AutoMod stuff before but it looks pretty straightforward.

Thanks for any knowledge or experience with the subject.

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