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What's on your mind, Atlanta?

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• Metro Atlanta Discord
• r/atlevents to see local events/meetups around town
• How To Meet People

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r/atlanta Monthly Transparency Report

This month includes the week of the sister subs which accounts for the majority of the decrease.

June 2026 (2026-06-01 to 2026-06-30)

Activity

• 791 published posts, down 208 from the previous 30 days
• 619 unique contributors, down 224 from the previous 30 days
• 36.3K published comments, down 672 from the previous 30 days
• 5.7K net subscriber gain (542.3K → 548.0K)

Engagement

• Average post score: 108.3 (highest: 2.8K)
• Average comments per post: 45.9

Post Categories

• Question: 240
• News: 60
• Recommendations: 57
• Food & Drink: 53
• Pictures: 44
• Crime/Police: 40
• Visiting Atlanta: 35
• Transit: 34

Moderators

Our current mod team consists of 11 human moderators plus bots for automation:

• u/cosby
• u/Femilip
• u/Reizero
• u/linisastald
• u/AdmiralAckbar31
• u/herroh7
• u/phoenixgsu
• u/PopKoRnGenius
• u/Savber
• u/WigglySpaghetti
• u/raltlanta

We use u/AutoModerator, u/admin-tattler, u/modmailtodiscord, u/trendingtattler, u/action-log, u/ATLModTransparency for various automation tasks.

Moderation

• 968 posts removed and 946 comments removed in total:
  • AutoModerator: 86 posts, 378 comments
  • Human moderators: 799 posts, 328 comments
  • Reddit admins: 83 posts, 240 comments
• 21 bans issued
• 8 unbans processed

Removal Reasons

• General Questions and Recommendations: 398
• Automod Comment Removal: 176
• No Buying, Selling, Free, or Solicitation: 154
• Move to Daily Discussion: 123
• Keep It Atlanta/Metro Focused: 60
• Duplicate Topics: 58
• Be Respectful : 40
• No Spam, Low-Effort, or Excessive Self-Promotion: 37
• No Clickbait or Vague Titles: 26
• Reason #15: 20
• No Doxxing or Sharing of Personal Information : 14
• Paywalled Articles and Sources : 11
• Move to ICE Megathread: 11
• r/Atlanta Karma Requirements: 6
• Breaking Reddit platform rules: 6
• Reason #d3b1e986-785e-491c-96ff-66226d195d96: 3
• No Surveys and Research: 1
• 78 removals without a logged reason

AutoModerator

AutoModerator filtered 1.7K items total (960 posts, 728 comments):

• 1.2K remain removed
• 478 were later approved by a moderator (176 posts, 302 comments)

Removal reasons:

• Insufficient Karma: 463
  • Comment karma < 10 on submission: 288
  • Comment karma < 0: 165
  • Comment karma < -5: 10
• Insufficient Sub Karma: 364
  • Politics Comment: 339
  • Politics Post: 12
  • Image in Comment: 6
  • ICEWatch Comment: 4
  • Crime/Police Comment: 3
• Topic Redirect: 259
  • World Cup 2026: 106
  • Events to r/ATLevents: 79
  • Visit/Move: 27
  • Housing to r/ATLHousing: 13
  • Meeting People to wiki: 12
  • Meeting People to sister subs: 9
  • Events to weekly thread: 7
  • Visit/Move/Things to Do: 6
• Rule 5: 225
  • Solicitation Comment broad: 126
  • Buying/selling: 32
  • Megathread ticket solicitation: 24
  • Solicitation Comment high-conf: 21
  • Payment/crowdfunding: 10
  • Buy/sell/free comment: 6
  • Pet rehoming: 6
• Rule 6: 204
  • Question/Recommendation flair to r/askATL: 179
  • Question/Recommendation to r/askATL: 25
• New User: 68
  • Account < 2 days: 63
  • Edited comment, account < 5 days: 5
• Content Quality: 53
  • Unicode/emoji in title: 27
  • Short title: 23
  • All caps title: 3
• Reports: 25
  • New user, 1 report: 20
  • 3+ reports: 5
• Rule 9: 21
  • Phone number: 21
• Rule 10: 6
  • Phone number: 6
• Hate Speech: 1

Modmail

We handled approximately 304 modmail conversations this period (59 user-initiated).

• Average response time: 1.4 hours (median: 16 minutes)

Reports

We received 809 total reports this period, up 35 from the previous 30 days.

Top Posts

1. Got booted at Midtown Place across from Ponce after I went in and legitimately s - 2,765 points, 756 comments
2. My wife grew this 13 footer sunflower in her garden and I thought it was worthy - 2,200 points, 55 comments
3. Drove over 500 miles to see Yushan the whale shark at Georgia Aquarium and it wa - 1,759 points, 115 comments
4. Spent weeks on the ground outside Five Points station to bridge this ATL themed - 1,681 points, 86 comments
5. Atlanta might need to start taking notes 😭📝 - 1,577 points, 70 comments

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What's on your mind, Atlanta?

Links of Interest:

• Metro Atlanta Discord
• r/atlevents to see local events/meetups around town
• How To Meet People

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What's on your mind, Atlanta?

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• Metro Atlanta Discord
• r/atlevents to see local events/meetups around town
• How To Meet People

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• r/atlevents to see local events/meetups around town
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• r/atlevents to see local events/meetups around town
• How To Meet People

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What's on your mind, Atlanta?

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