r/NewMods

Hello everyone - this community is in need of a few new mods, and you can use the comments on this post to let us know why you’d like to be a mod here. 

Priority is given to redditors who have past activity in this community or other communities with related topics. It’s okay if you don’t have previous mod experience and our goal, when possible, is to add a group of moderators so you can work together to build the community.

Please use at least 3 sentences to explain why you’d like to be a mod and share what moderation experience you have (if any).  

If you are interested in learning more about being a moderator on Reddit, please visit redditforcommunity.com. This guide to joining a mod team is a helpful resource. 

Comments from those making repeated asks to adopt communities or that are off topic will be removed. 

So, a group of people recently created a reddit account to spread misinformation and targeted harassment against a researcher we cite whose work is one of the main educational sources of our community, r/capybaralife and who I also have a contact with.

The drama makers created posts in 3 subreddits (involving mine) to spread unsupported accusations and lies against an individual person, misframe their work and label them with serious accusations.

Their post they created in my sub has been removed by the automod immediately due to low karma at the time when they posted it. I confirmed the removal, muted the user for 28 days and decided to ban them permanently.

What should be the things I need to be aware of after this? Can I expect a different account appearing with the same purpose? As far as I know, circumvent the ban with a different account violates reddit rules.

This is a new subreddit, and I'm really proud of my milestone. At first, there were no visitors at all. But I posted and posted. Then one day a visitor came. And another person came, and again and again, I reached 14 visitors per week!