TL;DR: As part of our long-term plan to build better mod tools, we’re expanding post and comment guidance for everyone and introducing Rules Hub — a new, intent-based moderation engine — for newly created communities. Nothing is changing for existing communities today. We’re sharing this early so you can help us shape what comes next.

As u/spez shared today, Reddit needs to evolve to meet the rising expectations of moderators, users, and developers. For mods, that means better tools so you can spend less time dealing with spam, abuse, and generic rule-breaking, and more time making judgment calls on what’s best for your community. 

One thing that won’t change: human moderators shape the culture, norms, and identity of their communities. Our plan for the future is to build tools that help you do that role more effectively, not replace it.

What’s launching now

Expanding Post and Comment Guidance (all communities) 
Thousands of mod teams already use Post and Comment Guidance to help redditors understand community expectations before they post. We recently expanded their capabilities with:

• Post Flair Support: Automated guidance can now be triggered based on the specific flair a user selects (our most requested improvement).
• Top Comment Check: Gives communities a way to provide automated guidance on top-level comments before content ever reaches the mod queue.

Introducing Rules Hub (newly created communities only)  
Rules Hub is a suite of new tools that will allow moderators to:

• Rule Creation & Enforcement: Create and choose which rules should be automatically enforced. Decide what happens when a rule is triggered (remove, send to queue, silently log it).
• Testing Sandbox: Preview the experience against a sample of your community’s past content to see exactly how it will behave before turning it on.
• Audit Logs: Access performance logs and insights to understand how your rules are performing. If a rule triggers, the log will provide clear visibility into why the system flagged the content, allowing you to adjust the rule's boundaries and refine them over time.

 

Unlike Automod, which relies strictly on deterministic keywords and regex syntax, Rules Hub uses LLMs to evaluate whether a post or comment matches the intent of a rule. That gives it more potential to handle nuance, edge cases, and natural language variation (for example, distinguishing between an actual insult and a user quoting a movie or using casual slang).

We’ve been testing Rules Hub with ~700 mod teams over the past few months. Starting today, it’s available for all newly created communities (though you can sign up below to check it out…) 

Rules Hub Setup Page

Insights

Testing Sandbox

What’s coming next

Longer term, we think systems like Rules Hub can handle the enforcement tasks you rely on Automod for today, while being easier to use and maintain. But it’s not there yet, especially for larger and more complex communities. Automod remains one of the most capable moderation tools on Reddit today, and we won’t change any existing Automod workflows until replacement workflows are tested and proven in partnership with moderators. 

• If you want to try Rules Hub, sign up here.
• If any of your custom moderation workflows are tied to AutoModerator, please check out the post on r/RedditDev.

Human moderators remain core to the Reddit ecosystem, both now and in the future. We’re sharing this early because if we’re going to build better moderation tools, we need to do it with the people who rely on them every day. Thank you, mods, for all you do to make your communities the unique places they are. We’ll keep improving your tools based on what we learn from you.

When running my own subreddit, do I have to keep making more post every day? Can I please promote my subreddit offline by providing a QR url link poster in town so you can't ban my subreddit?

It's finally June here. I'm having a jolly good time editing these past few weeks. I'm having a very cherry time reading legacy book.

Outside of these activities, I have spend a good months exploring homes. Preferably, I wanted to get away from all the trouble in my old home, and I wanted a new suburban home that is much peaceful. My location I've explored contains plenty of lakes around my property. There is a beach you can go to, plus, it very perfect for me to go for a long run.

I cannot move into a new home without the money in my possession. To purchase a home in America, I'll need to speak with a mortgage company to see what kind of allowance they can give me. If possible, I'll need to see whenever it is feasible for me for my financial well being. I'm not at liberty to discuss such information, but I do need to wait for a few months. Once I worked at a company for 2 years, that's when I'll need to schedule an appointment. The economy is doing... OK? I don't know.

Due to said conflict disputes on Iran, I expect the economy worldwide to be very... Rocky, at the least. I'll rather not send any young fools to die in a war for myself, but I wouldn't want another Euro missile crisis in the Middle east. Best if I stay alert for irregular activities at home, I guess.

For Summer, I want to work on building worldbuilding documents based on the universe I envision. This is going to be a little pickle working on, but I do want to make sure these elements are shared within the story. Time for me to get creative over my work.

When the 2030's come, it'll get better. I want to use less on corporate company social media slop, and I want to live a much quiet life. If I can be granted the power to host my own independent web server at home, I would do it. I would do it without paying a single cent towards corporate companies own cloud server. Let just hope I select the right location with Fiber ISP supported.

PS: I was player 3 on the bottom left. Yes, I won.

A year has passed since I first published The Dabbarow prison on Royalroad.com. When I first brought it live on the web, I really didn't expect that much. My original intent is to have the novella publish to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64. Thanks to all the personal life that got in my way, my work would be published on April 8th, 2025.

My novella

I have read and reread this material I wrote this spring. My suspicion suggest that I'm definitely up to something. For one, my goal was to build a phycological crime thriller espionage where a police military bounty hunter who infiltrate a terrorist controlled prison based on an asteroid and rescue a hacker name Darku. Think if it like the Mandalorlian, but he works with the feds instead of a sci-fi Mad Max these day.

Feedback is very rare to come by these days. Looking though a few responses, it give me plenty of confidence over what I want to work on. For one, it would be reasonable to at least give reader a proper introduction to the world he or she lives in. Perhaps provide me a little history lessons, dabble a bit on the thought process more than actions using monologed, define me the 'why' aspect and deconstruct the main protagonist in higher language.

Despite these flaws, I still enjoy reading it. Over the holidays, I had a good time reading over 3/4 of my novella until I was so tired from my last stream. I did finished reading the last chapter after new years day. Now I grown bored dealing with angry men or women who waste their time lecturing over nonsense material that never appealed to me, I wanted to pull my own work that offers entertainment you can read 100% free. I could give less of a shit earning any money.

As I continuing editing, I have to wonder if there is other people who are working on original entertainment projects. Maybe it might be that indie film you watch on YouTube, perhapse you might have read a book on the web, or you discover an indie game on Steam. Wherever you find these original source material, there plenty of higher quality content you can find on the web without having to throwing hundreds of dollars in your credit card.

While I wish I would have found a non-activist community outside of Reddit, I came out empty handed. I was disappointed.

On the contrary, I still cherished the work I did over the years. No matter how big or small the audience is, I still have fun reading a book. That shall guarantee me to deliver within a few months. For now, I will work on editing at my spare time. I'll keep you posted.

If you wish to learn more about my work, I would recommend two live streams where I provided a presentation over my novella:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfMeLlpxpUg
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJbi84TY9Bw

The following work over my novella can be read for free on the web. Here is the link in question:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/111926/the-dabbarow-prison

Last for an oral history of Goldeneye 007. I have published a blog post on Substack:

https://thesimidolian.substack.com/p/a-tribute-to-goldeneye-007

That is all I want to say. Please let me know if you have any questions.