r/ModSupport

A running joke goes from a few comments to half the front page. The people joking along are having a great time. Those trying to talk about anything else, maybe less so.

For today’s Mod Topic, let’s talk about how you decide what to preserve in a community, what to let change, and when to step in. Changes aren’t always as easy to point to as a front page full of memes. The posts might still be on topic, but the way people comment feels different. Or maybe a clear divide forms between those who love image posts, and the rest who feel it’s clogging the sub. And sometimes members find a use for the community that the mod team hadn’t considered, giving you a reason to rethink what you’d hoped to encourage.

There’s also the community where “nothing has changed” because the mods have put a lot of thought and effort into keeping it that way. Members might never see how often your team has had to make the same choice, or how close things came to going another way.

Whether you’ve already made a call or are still figuring it out, we’d love to hear from you:

• What’s a change your community has experienced, or one your team has been working to keep at bay? What made it worth paying attention to?
• When people want different things from the same community, how do you decide what to preserve and when to act?
• Has watching how members actually use the community changed your mind about something you wanted to encourage or prevent?

I was going through some subreddits and noticed a strange pattern. On the surface it looks simple. But I noticed something strange. There is one main sfw reddit account who is the main mod. Under this account are other mod accounts. But these other mods are all adult models who sell subscriptions.

So these additional mods post their own content on the subreddit to funnel users to their reddit profile where they soft sell subscriptions using profile link.

Mind you these aren't small subreddits. Almost all of them have 100k-1M members.

Also they pin an announcement to their subreddits where they funnel users from reddit to their Telegram channels.

This is definitely an organized ring. Normal user posts are just a front to avoid suspicion. Mods themselves are the real beneficiaries.

My questions:

1. Is this allowed on reddit?

2. Can mods create telegram channels and funnel reddit users there?

3. Can mods do user verification off the reddit platform? I see these guys doing user verification on telegram.

They both just want the other one to be gone from the team.

both have reasons to want that, the team wants to keep both of them.

no idea what to do to them

are they being removed by reddit? they dont have the usual things like "spam removed by reddit's automated systems" or "potential
harassment"

should i be particularly worried about em?

I've attached a pic in the comments

I recently got brought on as a mod to a new subreddit to help out, and have been working on the Look & Feel for the first time. I have to say, the experience of using these tools is abysmal. Part of me feels like I must be missing something, like surely the functionality I'm looking for is there and I'm just missing it, but I'm getting close to just giving up. Some of the biggest pain points I've seen so far:

• Key color customization is effectively useless. All you get is a hue slider and a saturation slider, and I'm not even entirely sure what their purpose is, as the color you select barely appears anywhere on the sub. I was trying to set the key color to a shade of gold, but the result was bad in both light and dark mode:
  • In light mode, the color is darkened drastically across the board, winding up almost brown.
  • In dark mode, the color looks perfect on text, but is darkened again on buttons—which, combined with the bizarre choice to use DARK text in dark mode, makes the buttons look like they're greyed out. This is apparently an accessibility feature, yet it actually decreases readability.
• Perfecting a subreddit banner is a pain. Once you upload an image, that's that; no adjusting position or zoom level, no tweaking the crop for mobile, not even an "undo" or "revert" button once you save to see the results. Even more annoying, the suggested size in the upload box (1072 x 128) is different from the suggested size Reddit gives in Mod Bootcamp (1600 x 480) are totally different, not even the same aspect ratio, and neither one seems to actually fit well. Like half of the banner I designed wasn't even visible due to the crop, which I couldn't change, so the workflow seems to be:
  • Upload banner and see how it looks;
  • Go back to your design tool and make changes by eyeballing the results, then export;
  • Upload the new banner and see if you over- or undercorrected, then rinse and repeat.
• Custom emojis. Not even sure where to start with this; you have to enable them for use if you want to create custom flairs with your own designs, but Reddit loads in THIRTY-NINE of them by default, and they can't be removed OR bulk edited; meaning, if you want to disable them, you have to manually edit them one at a time.

If anyone has any tips to make these easier, I'm all ears...

It does not show any posts initially, just shows the cloud image.

I’ve found a work around (removing any one sub from the list allows me to view the rest of the queue) but, has anyone else experienced this and is there a way to fix it?

Hello,

Many comments (and entire threads under) do not display on the reddit mobile app. There is no way for one to even realize unless one tries to open a link to a specific comment or receives a notification about a specific comment.

For example, sometimes I post a new comment and a while after I receive a notification that someone has replied. Clicking on the notification jumps to the comment in the post but a bogus "this comment was removed" message is displayed instead.

The message is bogus and misleading because comments affected by that issue are still online, one can see them using the reddit web (through the browser) even

This gets specially annoying when receiving a report notification for a comment affected by the issue.. since these comments doesn't load on the mobile app there isn't a way (through the app) to take moderation action.

I've created a bug report on r/bugs but it hasn't gathered much activity: https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/s/8llC87zh82

Is it possible to adjust the bot image-detective to show the URL of the original post to help confirming if it was really a repost or not?

on September 1st my friend created a subreddit which was related to Stitching but then it got banned immediately after some hours even without any Post or anything.

He was just inviting people to his subreddit but this banned happened.

He tried to contact admins but it didn't worked out

I knew about redditrequest and it had a rule that I can't request for 30 days after ban.

I even did the request after more than 30 days but it got rejected that the community got banned recently.
so is there any solution

here is the link of that reddit request post

and the response I got Request-bot's Comment

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We moderate two SFW communities and are looking for admin clarification and help with two issues that began at exactly the same time.

In each community, we attempted to post a short, approximately 10-second video as a comment. These were two completely different video files, and this type of video comment had previously worked normally.

In the first subreddit, the video comment failed to post. Immediately afterward, a large number of unrelated “Related Posts,” typically 20 to 30 or more, began appearing beneath the comment sections of multiple posts throughout the community, including posts submitted by other users.

Later, the same sequence occurred independently in the second subreddit. We attempted to post a completely different 10-second video comment. That video also failed, and immediately afterward the same large number of unrelated Related Posts began appearing beneath the comment sections of multiple posts throughout that community as well.

Since this started a couple of days ago, video comments have continued to fail, while image and text comments continue to post normally.

The Related Posts Issue

This is not a small recommendation section containing two or three related posts.

We are seeing approximately 20 to 30 or more posts from completely unrelated communities beneath the legitimate comments. None of the communities being recommended are communities we have previously visited.

Many of these recommendations also include “Join” buttons encouraging readers to join those communities.

Because these appear directly beneath the actual comments and continue for a considerable distance down the screen, they can easily look like unrelated promotional or spam content has been inserted into the community's comment section.

We understand that Reddit labels these items “Related Posts” and that they are not technically submissions or comments posted to our communities. However, from a reader's perspective, the distinction is not particularly clear because of where and how they are displayed.

From a moderation standpoint, we cannot find any way to remove these recommendations, moderate them, disable them, or prevent them from appearing beneath posts in our communities.

The Video Comment Issue

The timing is particularly notable because the same sequence occurred independently in both communities.

A short video comment failed to post, and immediately afterward the large Related Posts section began appearing beneath multiple posts throughout that community.

The videos used in the two communities were completely different files.

Video comments had previously worked normally. Since these issues began, video comments have continued to fail, while image and text comments continue to work.

We cannot determine whether the failed video-comment submissions and the Related Posts behavior are technically connected, but we can confirm that in both communities the Related Posts behavior began immediately following the first failed video-comment submission.

Could an Admin Please Clarify?

Is the display of 20 to 30+ unrelated Related Posts beneath comment sections an intentional Reddit feature or experiment?

Why are communities we have never previously visited being recommended beneath posts in our communities?

Is there a moderator setting that allows communities to disable or opt out of Related Posts?

Can individual users disable this section?

Is there a known issue currently causing video comments to fail?

Could the failed video-comment behavior and the sudden appearance of the large Related Posts section be related to the same Reddit app change or bug?

We have screenshots showing the behavior and can provide additional information if needed.

Thank you.