Request for Admin Guidance Regarding Repeated Attempts to Take Over My Communities Following My Suspension
Hello ModSupport,
I’m looking for guidance regarding a situation that has been ongoing for quite a while and has continued even after my account suspension was lifted.
I am the founder and sole moderator of my reading subreddit. I created it from scratch and have managed it ever since.
For months, another Reddit user repeatedly contacted me asking me to hand over that subreddit or make him a moderator. I declined every time because I had no intention of giving up ownership of a community that I built.
He also repeatedly tried to convince me to remove my fellow moderator from my Jordan subreddit and replace him instead, despite already having his own subreddit. When I refused, he contacted my co-moderator directly and attempted to persuade him to remove me and make him the moderator instead. It felt like he was approaching both of us separately in an effort to gain control.
After my account was permanently suspended, he immediately started messaging both subreddits through Modmail. He also made a public post asking to take over moderation of my reading subreddit while I was suspended.
From my perspective, the timing of these actions made it appear that he was trying to obtain my communities while I was unable to access my account.
Community members noticed this pattern on their own and openly criticized his actions. I did not ask anyone to contact him, harass him, threaten him, or brigade him. Nevertheless, he is now claiming that I organized harassment against him, which is simply not true.
He also told other Reddit users that I was not Jordanian and suggested that I should not be moderating Jordan-related communities because of that. I have never publicly claimed to be from another country—in fact, I am Jordanian. These statements were made without any basis and were used to argue that he should be the one running my communities.
My suspension has now been lifted after my appeal, for which I am grateful. However, I’m still concerned about everything that happened during my suspension and about the false accusations being made against me.
I’m not asking for action against another user through this post. I’m simply asking for guidance from the admin team on how situations like this should be handled when someone repeatedly attempts to take over communities during a moderator’s suspension and makes false claims about them.
Thank you for your time.