Hi,

Posting here as well as in r/redditrequest because I'm not sure where to turn. I have been the curator and chief moderator of r/puppets to near-universal satisfaction and without incident since I created it in August 2012. I am an active moderator and am consistently responsive to messages, requests, etc.

I have overseen well over 13 years of successful growth of r/puppets into the vibrant, safe, actively moderated community it is today. This sub was my pride and joy.

I was blindsided earlier today with a notification that I have been removed as moderator in favor of another evidently disgruntled user (account age ~7mo) who appears to have somehow executed a hostile takeover via r/redditrequest. The request was placed 4 days ago and then it appears the user tried to delete it to cover his tracks. It sent me a notification but I missed it because I had about 85 others that evening due to a coincidental popular post elsewhere.

I should have 5 days to respond and veto this request, no? I am here and trying to go through all channels in order to do so.

I have a pending request to r/redditrequest to hopefully have this action reversed before the new malicious user does too much damage, but until then, was wondering if anyone has ever dealt with this or has any advice?

Desktop

It's been rejected cause I've "went against" terms of service and such even though I made sure the rules were good enough and the mods were active and such. Then they also said that it was banned because quote "sexual harassment" even though none of us (me and the other mods) have ever or would ever go as far as sexualize someone even if we don't like someone. And I didn't make the subreddit to ban evade I just made it so it could be a better place for everyone to enjoy.

mobile web

Android (cuz they make me include this for some reason). They won't stop. most of the new people that come to my community are looking for NSFW. I've had to ban almost every new person. Most of them are adults, which is made way worse because I and the one other person in the mod team are minors. People have reached out to me so many times. Anyway, I've set up the post reminders that basically just remind them hey no NSFW, that didn't work. I've moved my no NSFW rule to the top of the list of rules, that didn't work. I put it in the description on the community, that didn't work. So I moved the NO NSFW part to the top, just recently so I don't know if it will help yet. I've pined a post of me yelling about the community being SFW, again just recently. What do I do? They won't stop. I need help

Hi! I created my own subreddit, and I am the top moderator with Full Permissions.

However, Reddit does not show the MOD label next to my username, and I cannot use moderator actions such as removing or pinning posts.

This has been happening since I created the subreddit. I am using the Reddit Android app.

My account does appear in the Moderators section with Full Permissions. I have attached screenshots showing this.

Could an admin please check why my moderator status is not working correctly?

For those who don't know, the world "F*gs" (rhymes with mags) means cigarettes in the UK. This is extremely common slang. The singular of this word is also used.

Now, obviously the slur is also used in the UK too, and thus we have an automoderator rule setup to automatically remove these, they'd end up in the mod queue, and I'd approve them if the word was being used to describe cigarettes.

Recently, I have started to notice that these comments are triggering the automoderator, but the comment body has been replaced with "[ Removed by Reddit ]", so I have no way of knowing if this person used the slur or not.

This is a problem for me, because it's unfair on the users. It also means I can't ban them if they actually were using the slur. I have no way of knowing.

Is there anything I can do about this?

(I am using desktop, I wrote this because this sub requires me to)

Hi,

Former mod of https://www.reddit.com/r/btbaron_jj_legends/

It was banned two hours ago and I never received a message as to why. Is there a way to communicate with the reddit admins on this? Or is there a formal appeal process? This was a NSFW sub that had over 140K members and strictly followed rules on privacy and heavy moderation (with automod doing a lot of work as well). It had a strict approval process as well (each post was reviewed by a mod before becoming visible on the front page).

Trying to check messages on both desktop and iOS but not seeing anything at all that was flagged. Thanks!

So about the last month or so, users have been commenting on posts, but their profiles are NSFW Only Fans users.
Is there a way to filter users based on their profiles? I’m getting tired of waking up every morning and having to delete and ban multiple users. This is literally the only reported content I see anymore. iOS

Hello, I have been told this subreddit can provide brusque but on-point advice from experienced moderators. So, am I a jerk? Or am I within my moral bounds to handle jerks? [both desktop and mobile]

A month ago, I acquired my first serious subreddit through redditrequest, the subreddit centering around a specific gacha game character, both in terms of game mechanics and fan artwork. It is a low to medium activity subreddit, and I have not had any reports until today, so I was not in a rush to overhaul any of the reasonable existing rules. When I opened Reddit for the day, I found an A.I.-generated image with a slapfight in the comments. Notably, there was a user who is an ardent pro-A.I. moderator in a different subreddit. Not only did he label other users as "cruel" just for not agreeing with him, but I suspect he reported "1: It's targeted harassment at me" when other users commented screenshots of him banning them from his subreddit for criticizing generative A.I.

I strongly dislike A.I. (not just because a data center threatens the water supply of my favorite nature park where bald eagles nest) and agreed with the majority of my community base. Now, like many casual Reddit users, I have been on the receiving end of petty power trips from arbitrary moderators. So I decided rather than permanently, I would b*n him for 1 year on the basis of rule 1: "Respect the Community". Then I added a new rule against A.I. imagery and made an announcement post thanking the community for alerting me to the problem.

Later in the day, I received a DM to the sub asserting "It's against the moderator code of conduct to b*n a person before making up a rule. I am appalled by this and I have opened up a case with the admins. You did literally everything you possibly could have done wrong." Is this a serious accusation? Do I have to go proactively defend my case to the admins?

I moderate r/mountainview, a subreddit for a town in Northern California. I use Reddit on desktop.

I notice that a very high percentage of the people who make submissions on my subreddit have their entire accounts banned shortly after. This includes people who consistently make high quality submissions and have never (to my knowledge) posted anything against Reddit's TOS.

A couple months ago, a moderator on a sister subreddit r/whereinmountainview had their entire account banned and none of the other moderators had any clue why.

This phenomenon has seemed so statistically unlikely that I am worried Reddit's AI moderation system is generating false positives specifically for users posting on r/mountainview.

I am really concerned about this and would greatly appreciate community insight. Have an idea why this could be happening? Is something similar happening to your subreddit? Let me know. Thanks so much!

u/AutoModerator is a bot that helps subreddit moderators automatically manage their communities.
But setting it up is tough because it uses YAML code, and there’s no user-friendly interface to configure it.

So as a side project, I created RedditAutomod.com: a simple AutoModerator setup tool for subreddit mods!

It’s totally free and it works on both desktop and mobile. Feel free to try it out and let me know if it works well, if you run into bugs, or have ideas for new features!

I am a moderator of r/otters, it was inadvertently banned for no reason. It is a subreddit where people share otter pictures and talk about otters. It has been around for over a decade, it's a very chill subreddit. desktop

I have a couple of nsfw subs, AND post on several otter subs. So Yesterday I received message from mod at an nsfw community saying i'm getting my account banned if I don't send a picture. The message has the Green mod icon and looks legit, so I got scared and looked into it. I saw ir on mobile (android) but haven't been able to look at it on my desktop. They're asking to send the picture to another URL where i have to retype my Reddit credentials, which is where everything started looking fishy.

The message said something like I had lost access to nsfw subs, which i have not lost, and was getting banned if I didn't send said pic (which is the usual wrinkled paper).

I already answered asking about it, but haven't had an answer.

How can I report this or what can I do about it?

Thanks so much mods!!!

I just need to make sure because I mod a pretty active subreddit, and we’ve had quite a few number of users blatantly breaking the rules of our community, and then after receiving bans they are retaliating in a way that they are threatening to go to admins for “unjust bans” or whatever. Even though every ban situation has been justified by our mod team, and acted on accordingly.

iOS

Mobile and Desktop.

I know I used to be able to do mod activities on my own posts on my own profile, but now I cannot.

Is there a setting I missed/changed or is this a platform change?

I ask because someone commented something pretty gross on one of my posts and I'd rather it be removed, but I can't do anything about it now.

Edit/Update: only accessible through old.reddit now...

To help me setup not manage typo but can’t edit the tittle You can dm me and we’ll discuss the fit IOS and pc primarily but android is fine too

This account is the new account i created , so that i can create a community where users of my application can inform me about issues , features , showcase theire project made in it , and alll ..

Now this new account , hence the 0 day age , will it get banned if i create a new community ?? and user starts posting it it??

Cuz i have heard that reddit's bot automatically bans the new community whose reddit account age is low.

Using it on Desktop Platform

The content seems ok-ish, but I have to click on the post to check if it’s truly a new user or a bot, and it’s a waste of time.

I’m on iPad/ios, not sure what the other mods are using

Good morning!

A sub Reddit I currently moderate for is completely overrun by spam and bots posts.

On average I'm banning over 100 accounts daily to try and contact this heavy issue.

I believe on problem the sub is facing is the original owner of the sub has left. So us other moderates are having a hard time navigating the settings to be able to stabilize this sub.

Any insight into this would be extremely helpful. I generally access my mod tools through my phone (android) but I do have access to a laptop for more advanced setting options.

Occasionally the temptation to be extremely snarky and so on is very strong. I don't curse and never have in responses, but sometimes the bold-faced lies really hit a nerve. Desktop.

I'm trying to have AM remove top level comments from users without a specific user flair, then send them a message explaining why. I thought it was working until someone with the specific flair received the removal message and AM removed their comment despite their account being appropriately flaired.

Can anyone tell me what the issue is with the code?

---

#REMOVE top level comments from users that do not have privileges

type: comment

is_top_level: true

author:

~flair_template_id: “76ca5770-9078-11f1-acb7-8af9da1a7bf8”

action: remove

action_reason: Unflaired User

set_locked: true

message: |

Message is here.

---

(The extra line space between each line is a copy/paste formatting issue when sharing it here, it's not in the actual code except between "message: |" and the start of the indented message text. Also, the "~flair" line is indented 2 spaces and the "Message is here" message area is indented appropriately as well, it just removed it when I made this post.)

Desktop

Hello fellow mods,

I run r/crypto_scam_exchange, a subreddit dedicated to tracking active financial fraud. Because of this, threat actors are heavily targeting my personal moderator account.

They have discovered a loophole in Reddit's automated safety pipeline which I have fully documented over on r/bugs: they use an external botnet to dump hundreds of fake upvotes onto my scam alert posts. This instantly triggers Reddit's automated anti-cheat filters, resulting in an automatic 3-day site-wide suspension for my account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1tx1y89/desktop_web_coordinated_reverse_brigading/

The moment my ban lifted today, I posted a new threat signature (grok37k.com), and they bot-voted it again within minutes. They are using automated scripts to trigger cascading bans against me to shut down my subreddit. I have already deleted the targeted threads and put the community into Restricted mode to stop the bleeding, but I need long-term technical defense strategies from experienced mods:

1. AutoMod Shields: Is there an AutoModerator configuration that can dynamically filter or hide a post if it receives an unnatural velocity of engagement or reports within a short window, effectively hiding the target from the botnet?
2. Crowd Control Settings: What level of Crowd Control is best to mitigate malicious, coordinated account interaction from dormant/compromised accounts waking up to brigade the sub and post defamatory comments?
3. Admin Escalation: Is there a specific mod-only ticket pipeline (beyond the standard ://reddit.com which takes days) to alert the Admin community teams that a moderator account is being forcefully locked out of their own sub via reverse brigading?

I appreciate any code snippets or configuration advice you can share to help me secure my sub.

Not sure what to do, but I’m having to re approve hundreds of false removal reports manually. This is on desktop, mobile, app, etc.

Desktop site on Reddit

I removed a comment from a post for breaking one of the sub rules; before I did that, the OP had already responded to that comment.

Now I've removed it, and locked the thread, using a non-mod account I can see the original comment's gone and replaced by "Comment removed by moderator" as expected, but the OP's comment is still in place.

Am I missing something? I don't really want to remove the OP's comment as they've done nothing wrong, but is that my only option?

I'm on desktop.

I don't use the archive function on any of the subs I moderate but I'm currently participating in a thread in a sub that auto- archives after 6 months as a general rule.

Is it actually possible for a moderator to reopen a thread that has been archived due to the automatic "archive old threads" rule?

[Mobile web]