Is there a way for me to ban certain words if so how?

Just got removed as a mod by someone from a sub I created. How?

I've noticed several subreddits in digital marketing niches that appear to exist mainly for affiliate spam or promotion of one or more specific brands. In some cases, the moderators seem to be directly involved, consistently letting the same brand take the top comment spot on post after post while other smaller brands are allowed lower down to make it look like normal discussion.

I can name multiple examples where the subreddit looks less like a real community and more like a controlled sales funnel. Reports don't seem to lead anywhere, even when the same brand is constantly promoted and the moderation appears biased.

At what point does Reddit step in and take action against subreddits like this? Does repeated affiliate spam, self promotion, and moderator abuse qualify for a subreddit ban, or is there a different process to escalate this?

I have accidentally unapproved a user because when I opened the mod mail, the approve button wasn't there and I was quickly trying to move through and clicked unapprove instead. And I don't know how to undo it! Hellpppp 😬

I’m new to Reddit and recently created my own subreddit. I want to add a few moderators, but I only plan to give them limited permissions mainly the ability to create posts and manage flairs.

Is this generally considered safe, or are there any risks I should be aware of before adding them as mods?

I made a request for adoption after the mod didn't respond to mail for 5 days (still hasn't), the subreddit was created years ago and is completely empty: not a single post, no description, flairs, rules, etc. The mod said no in the post and it got rejected by the bot. What are my options if any?

The main mod was banned so we started working on the subred by ourselfs and now my team wants me to be the top mod. and I want to remove the first 2 mods since they don't do any work.

How do i remove them if im not the top mod?

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On one subreddit I saw a mod give the top mod spot to someone who is officially affiliated with said topic of the subreddit, whose profile says "1 contribution" and that's the only subreddit they moderate, doesn't appear to be an active mod. I'm guessing its fine?

Here is the thing: the other moderator has been inactive on the subreddit for 11 days. They chose a project for the sub themselves and said they would work on it, but then suddenly went offline. A few days later I checked in to ask if they were doing alright, but I still haven’t received any response.

When I appointed them, we agreed they would moderate for 3 weeks first and then decide whether they wanted to continue the role. That 3-week period is now over, and during this period they haven’t been active on the subreddit for 11 days.

I’m thinking of waiting another 3 days, and if there’s still no response or activity, quietly removing them as a moderator. The whole situation gives me a strange feeling and I honestly don’t know what the right thing to do is.

At the beginning we had several discussions about ideas and plans for the subreddit since it’s still very new, and then they suddenly went completely radio silent. At this point, I’m wondering if I should just assume they lost interest.

(I'm not literally asking how to do this; I know where the toggle is. I use mobile web, sometimes desktop.)

So I run a subreddit that I set as NSFW when I first made it 10 years ago. However, I did that just to make it easier, not necessarily because everything posted is NSFW. In fact, I'd say the majority of what is posted is SFW. I want to transition my sub to SFW primarily because there are a few features that aren't accessible when it is NSFW, such as using images and gifs in the comments, the collections feature, and the big one is no longer being hidden from r/all, should the day ever come that a post gets enough traffic for it to wind up on there.

I'm curious to know what I should consider before I make this change, because I'm sure there will be growing pains. Is there anything I should do to prepare the subreddit community for this? Are there other settings I should consider adjusting? Has anyone else made this transition before? If so, how did that go for you?

Hello everyone

So, as mods, I believe we all know the headache of these NSFW accounts and spam bots targeting our community members. A user joins a popular subreddit, makes a post, and within minutes, an NSFW account slides into their DMs or chat requests. mostly giving creep and pedo behaviour. This issue has been faced by a lot of people, especially by female users. We get complaints from users daily. How many will we block? Why lose the mental peace over these weirdos?

While this happens in private spaces, users often blame the subreddit or turn to ModMail out of frustration, cause who else will they turn to?
After consulting many fellow and senior mods, I came to the conclusion that Reddit doesn't have any native feature for ignoring specifically NSFW DMs.
You can either turn off your DMs permanently or do so for accounts younger than 30 days. However, it doesn't solve the issue totally. People who have turned off their DMs totally also can't receive normal DMs.

The Plan

So I came up with an idea that, like we already have a feature for "who can send us chat requests" why don't we add another similar section for NSFW accounts? AI and Hive Protector already have the capabilities of identifying such accounts. People should have an option for turning off requests from specifically NSFW accounts as well, this feature when enabled, will auto-ignore any kind of DMs received by a member from an NSFW profile. Thus, the user doesn't have to again and again stress himself/herself from those weird DMs.

For people thinking that new accounts also get flagged as NSFW, it can be removed if you have not participated in any NSFW sub. We all have the means to identify and stop NSFW content in our feed and for our own account, so why not for the DMs as well?

I feel this works because this will create a better environment for women, men and very importantly, teens, providing a safer environment for them on Reddit.

What are your thoughts on this? Also, please add any suggestions if you would like to do so.

EDIT: Well, as NSFW doesn't specifically mean adult content, so we need bots to identify activity in adult content subs, that would work just fine as well.

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It used to be. But I can't figure out how to do it now.

If I start to do a scheduled post on app and add a poll the elipsis for scheduling disappears.

It's most perplexing.

I tried to use reddit.com/report, and it can't find my "primary" sub. Even if it could, I'm worried I will miss something important. In short, I moderate 7 communities that are essentially the same, and when a scammer gets banned from one, they get banned from all of them, but sometimes I find their new account on sub A and B, other times B and C, and sometimes just A, and so on. I'm not sure selecting just one sub will be enough.

Furthermore, I have some evidence I would like to attach that should help with confirmation that they are indeed the same person. For one scammer in particular, I have a chart/spreadsheet that helps to visualize the overlap in profiles and aliases they use. There are 29 accounts that have been banned from Reddit entirely, and another 14 that are not yet banned, 9 of which are active in other communities. Some communities have absolutely refused to ban them, despite presenting their mods with a mountain of evidence, so I want to try to remove the active accounts for good.

For example, 15 of his accounts link to one particular ArtStation portfolio, and of those, 8 have posted a second ArtStation portfolio. From the accounts using the second portfolio, one can identify at least 7 more accounts, repeating for other portfolios until you can be confident that at least 43 accounts are the same person. Most of these portfolios have artwork stolen from at least half a dozen sources and they claim them as their own, meaning they could also possibly be nabbed for Impersonation or Manipulated Content.

Should I just try reddit.com/report for the second most active sub and hope for the best, or would admins prefer I link to each name in r/ModSupport ModMail with some attached evidence and a list of related communities I moderate? Or something else, perhaps?

Hello, I would like to know how long it takes to process a report sent to Mod Support?

We sent a report about the situation we were experiencing with mass attacks on members and moderation of our sub. In this report, we attached all the evidence, links, and explained what was happening. This was at the beginning of April. On April 4th, we received a response that they had received it and would analyze it. After that date, no contact was made.

We needed to change the sub to private for this reason, and that way we could protect the members. However, because of this, our sub, which already didn't have much interaction, became like a ghost sub with almost no interaction.

I know the admins are busy people, but I think the processing time is very long. Is this normal? Will we still receive a response?

So for those who aren’t informed, only fans women have started creating promotional alt accounts, and immediately creating their own subs. They are created by agencies to promote these women. In the beginning, it was only a few per week.Then a few per day. Suddenly, I have gotten a drastic increase and I found 19 in one day just by looking at people I banned in my communities. Sure I could mail in the list to mod support and get them marked NSFW, but tomorrow they will all just create a new one. It’s an unsolvable problem. However I noticed 99% of these users have low cqs. Can there be a limit to the number of subs people with low cqs can create? Perhaps one per 6 months? Or make low cqs users go though a more advanced screening process to create a sub to see if they are evading a recent nsfw marking? This would really fix things.

Edit: So I sent the list in a modmail to modsupport, but I’m looking for a better solution to them being created in the first place

PCP means PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN. It doesn't always mean drugs. Reddit admins removed a bunch of PCP posts and they were legit asking about PCP's that would prescribe the meds they need (not opiates, I asked op before the post was removed). Those of us modding regional subreddits (and illness subreddits) get questions asking for PCP's all the time. People move, they need new primary care docs and ask. Don't ding them for asking a question about improving their health, please. How many people are on this site actually asking for PCP? I thought that wasn't even a popular drug anymore. I sure as heck haven't heard about it since the bath salts craze.