r/ModSupport

I moderate a highly trafficed sports subreddit and it's not uncommon for a fan of another team to come in and just start spam reporting posts with "spam." The only way to report this to reddit is to go to the original post and re-report the post as "report abuse." You then get prompted on whether or not you want to block the poster who made the original post, not the report abuser.

It's such a weird convoluted way for the system to work, why wouldn't that be tucked into the report option when viewing from the mod queue? The report abuse has nothign to do with the original post and everything to do with the bad actor spamming the report button.

Additionally why can't I mute non-custom report options? If someone puts in a custome report I can mute their ability to report for a week, if they mark something as spam I can't. Why?

I have sent a modmail message for a moderation application and after getting no response I made a request for it on r/redditrequest which got denied, I am convinced the subreddit is unmoderated and one of the mods just made a random mod action in the last 30 days and would like to try for another request, can I use the previous modmail used for the new request?

I copied the link from the post, pasted it, and it doesn't accept it.

1. Let me post images.

I want to be able to post an image often when it's where somebody is supposed to click because they're running into a problem.

I love Markdown, but I also love being able to just paste an image in the way I can with standard posts and replies on Reddit.

This is just me complaining, and feel free to ignore it, but there are places where you will and won't let me use Markdown. Make it ubiquitous, please. I think you've removed Markdown from somewhere, but you force me to use Markdown in ModMail.

2. When I click over to posts - I don't care that something was removed from MY subreddit. Show it to me *with* the removed tag at the top. Right now, I now have to click THROUGH to see what the content was.

3. Can we make it faster to get to someones entire post history? Right now, it's a scroll (to posts), click (all communities), scroll (to the top), click (all communities.)

99% of the time, when I click here, I'm looking for all communities. Can I just get that as a default? Or at button at the top?

I've been getting a lot of non-English posts in one of the subs I moderate over the past year. At first I was removing them all until I realized these posts are auto-translated by reddit for anyone that is not using old.reddit. Since only a small percentage of people still use old.reddit I decided to start allowing these non-English posts. However, just today I realized these posts do not get translated in sh.reddit either, so I am thinking of going back to removing all non-English posts. I could have sworn posts in sh.reddit used to get auto-translated though, so is this some kind of recent change that occurred or am I imagining things? If sh.reddit is a new feature that is actively maintained by the admins (unlike old.reddit), why doesn't auto-translate work in it? Also was just interested to hear how other mods handled non-English posts in their subs if anyone feels like sharing their thoughts. Thanks.

Recently I quit a sub as a moderator as I could not convince other mods that some of the things that some of the veteran mods of that sub were doing was not right.
What they were doing was basically this:

suppose there is a content that has potential to go viral (e.g. like an incredible win in a sports game). A regular user posted the content first, their content broke no rule at all. But some of the veteran mods also want to post the same content. Hence they did not approve that post in the queue from that user and themselves posted the same content, in many instances, the exact same content. These mods have like insane karma and after knowing how they moderate, it was clear how they got that.

I tried reasoning with other mods but basically their argument was that sometimes these mods improve upon the content (which was not exactly true as even with the improvements, both the content were more or less the same) and that there's a rule that mods can approve/remove posts on their own discretion. I also had gotten bored of that sub, so I found it better to just quit the sub rather than reasoning with them.

Now I'm running my own sub and they are quite good. I just want to know what I can do to ensure that such things don't happen with my sub by the new mods I recruit.

They have literally followed me to THIS subreddit as well.

I’m going to start a new sub on a specific subject of a fairly rare syndrome. There is an existing sub on the disease and it serves a good purpose as a catch-all for the syndrome. The issue is that, at least in my mind and others, the sub has become too huge and overrun with “do I have this” posts and people looking for a diagnosis. For those of us actually medically diagnosed posts get lost in all the static. Just the nature of the umbrella type sub. This will not be a huge sub and I can see 5k members as huge with active participants in the low hundreds at best.

My idea is to start a new sub strictly for those officially diagnosed,or their caregivers, to discuss what we do to control this as it varies greatly from person to person. With many GP’s not really understanding it leaving us mostly on our own, outside of some general guidance and the few specialists that exist. There is no cure, only control.

My plan is to make this a bit rule heavy, with no medical advice ask for or given (only “what works for me posts), no AI at all allowed, no politics and strong anti-harassment and judgement control. I want none of the “mines worse than yours, grow up”posts. I’ll be modding this pretty tightly to start but at the same time allowing things to evolve if it benefits the users so rule exceptions will be in place as needed.

There will be scheduled posts for certain topics to keep them contained. Post flair will be required to help users hit points of interest.

I want to encourage links to medical references and actual publications as much as reasonable on posts when making a claim.

As always seeking official medical help before any changes will be strongly encouraged.

I’m planning a strong wiki with links to resources and good help guides.

OK, so now that you have the idea of what I want to do - if you have run, started or even actively participated in a medical sub what would you change, do differently or make sure to include.

Thanks for any and all suggestions and comments.

He has been trying to take over our subreddit for quite some time. I know this because people have repeatedly sent me screenshots of his DMs, where he encourages them to mass report us and says a lot of unnecessary and hostile things.
The other day, one of my fellow moderators was permanently banned from Reddit after she violated one of Reddit’s rules. Almost immediately afterward, he sent us a modmail asking whether our subreddit was still active, and he also submitted a request to take over another subreddit that she owned she kept emailing Reddit and explaining the situation and they unbanned her
I already sent a modmail here with evidence of his behavior, but I haven’t received any response.

I have a public NSFW community. I have read several times here that you don't have to approve posts and comments. That simply isn't true. Reddit is deleting the ones I don't approve.

I read every post and comment in my community. I forget to approve sometimes. Is there any way to auto approve everything? I always have the option to unapprove them

So I am mod of r/Btech30DailyUpdates. Our founding mod had permission of everything and recruit 2 new mods including me. He gave none of us permission to user so that we can't add mods. Now his account is banned. So there is no mod with user permission. How can we gain that.

Hello I just created community and posted welcome post and two posts align with theme of my community. I saw Reddit recommendations for moderation and I believe it's useful for new mods as myself but I don't understand about suggestion:

— create 5 posts (I saw that in community menue)

so question:

1. should I create 5 posts today or in what period and it will help to better grow my community is that correct?

2. Is that safe to make 5 quality contributions in one day?

Appreciate the response from other mods or administration, I'm new to moderation so I ask that to keep my community safe and grow it effective way.

sry fo my English I'm mlnot native speaker

So in one of my subs where the subject is ice cream, we don’t like AI accusations going live. Often people will use AI to calculate their nutritional information which would take them a ton of time and it’s frankly a good use of it as a tool.

On another fashion sub, I would rather my AI accusations get filtered so they immediately go to the queue, and I can ban it if I clearly see AI. Sometimes I get totally unjust AI accusations because the user blurred the background. I’d rather these false accusations, not go live and cause the post to be unnecessarily downvoted.

Anyway, here is the filter for anyone who would like to use it

```

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# No AI Accusations FILTER

priority: 10000

type: any

title+body (regex): ['AI', 'ai', 'slop', 'slopper', 'slopp', 'sloppp', 'slopposting', 'slop posting', 'slop post', 'slop farm', 'ai slop', 'prompt slop', 'claude', 'claud', 'claudee', 'gemini', 'gemeni', 'gemini ai', 'google gemini', 'chatgpt', 'chat gpt', 'chat-gpt', 'chat g p t', 'chatg p t', 'gpt', 'g p t', 'g-p-t', 'gpt3', 'gpt-3', 'gpt 3', 'gpt4', 'gpt-4', 'gpt 4', 'gpt5', 'gpt-5', 'gpt 5', 'nano banana', 'openai', 'open ai', 'anthropic', 'copilot', 'co pilot', 'microsoft copilot', 'grok', 'perplexity', 'midjourney', 'mid journey', 'mid-journey', 'stable diffusion', 'stable-diffusion', 'stablediffusion', 'flux', 'runway', 'runwayml', 'sora', 'veo', 'veo 2', 'veo 3', 'elevenlabs', 'eleven labs', 'suno', 'udio', 'leonardo ai', 'leonardo.ai', 'ideogram', 'firefly', 'adobe firefly', 'a\.i\.', 'A\.I\.', 'a i', 'a-i', 'artificial intelligence', 'artificial-intelligence', 'generative ai', 'gen ai', 'gen-ai', 'llm', 'large language model', 'machine generated', 'machine-generated', 'generated', 'generated by ai', 'ai generated', 'ai-generated', 'made with ai', 'made using ai', 'ai made', 'deepfake', 'deep fake', 'synthetic', 'synthetically generated', 'prompt', 'prompting', 'prompt engineer', 'prompt engineering', 'bot generated', 'bot-generated', 'bot wrote', 'chatbot', 'chat bot', 'bot account', 'botted', 'botted content', 'dead internet', 'dead internet theory' ]

author:

is_moderator: false

action: filter

action_reason: "No AI Accusations [{{match}}]"

---

```

i know sharing personal information that could be used to dox someone, like their workplace, email, or links to their personal accounts, is crossing the line. But is saying something like, "You're a chef," "You're a banker," or "You're a lawyer," also considered crossing the line?

Would this be a bannable offense?

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.

My admins all removed my access to edit my subreddit so i had to dissolve my crew but im not getting control of the options despite access to everything but editing. Any insight would be appreciated.

There’s a sub I read where one of the moderators is posting about 80% of the content in the sub, but just about every post is a copyright violation. They’ll post links to articles, then copy the entire text of the article into their post. This person is responsible for 12 of the 15 most recent posts on the sub, and they all appear to be stolen content.

The sub has a report reason about violating site rules, but I obviously can’t use that because the offender is a mod of the sub where it’s posted. There doesn’t seem to be any way to flag this with Reddit, since I’m not the copyright holder. It also doesn’t seem to be a Mod Code of Conduct violation.

Where do I go from here? Is this a “modmail this sub” kind of issue?

Edit: I’m asking because I don’t want the sub to get banned for hundreds of copyright violations, and I don’t want to be banned from the sub.

i need to vent because i am losing my mind over how useless reddit’s banning system actually is.
i recently became a mod for a subreddit meant for teenagers, and our team has been working around the clock to keep it safe. we’ve been incredibly active and have been heavily banning pedos, creeps, and complete weirdos. but here is the incredibly frustrating part: banning someone literally does next to nothing.
it only stops them from posting and commenting on the sub. that’s it. it doesn’t block them from lurking, it doesn’t hide the content, and most importantly, it does absolutely nothing to stop them from clicking on a vulnerable kid's profile and sliding into their dms.
we have literal 30-year-olds targeting and dming teenagers, and as mods, our hands are tied the second they move to private messages. we can ban these creeps a thousand times over, but they are still lingering in the shadows of our community, completely free to harass kids who don't know any better.
it is so deeply exhausting and terrifying that reddit doesn't have a better system to completely block banned users from even viewing a community, especially when it comes to protecting minors. we've had to put up massive warning posts telling the kids to block and report them to admin, but we shouldn't have to rely on teenagers to defend themselves against predators that we already caught and tried to kick out. it’s an absolute joke.

I mod a number of subreddits. Recently, the same promotional modmail template for a Devvit app has appeared in multiple modmail inboxes I help manage.

That seems unlikely to be a coincidence. The affected subreddits are not closely related, so the fact that the same account/message is reaching more than one of them strongly suggests this is being sent broadly to subreddit mod teams, rather than being a targeted or organic one-off message.

I have reported each message using modmail’s built-in report function, but I have not seen any mitigation (keep receiving in different mod team modmail subsequent to reports).

The messages are essentially the same template each time:

Hi r/____mods 👋
I'm a developer and I built a small Devvit bot called _____.
It _____ posts and comments by removing tracking parameters such as utm_*, fbclid, gclid, ref, click_id.
Example:
Original: https://____utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
_____: https://_____/article?id=123
etc....

I checked reddit.com/report, but I do not see an obvious category for reporting developer/app promotional spam sent through modmail.

What is the correct reporting path for this?

What protections do moderators have against repeated unsolicited promotional modmail, especially when it appears to be sent across multiple communities?

Thanks