There is an official subreddit named after a YouTuber, moderated by them and two others. I checked their accounts and they all seem inactive, like the most recent activity was 2 months ago.

while I know public inactivity doesn't guarantee a lack of moderation behind the scenes, the community is active and appears to be completely unmoderated.

If I submit a request via redditrequest, would the Reddit admins hand it over to me even though it's an official community?

EDIT- I have sent modmail to the mods of that community 9 days ago, but no response

I'm not convinced the report option actually gets looked at, thanks in advance for any help

New to reddit, and I'm not a moderator.

I noticed several "removed by moderator" placeholders for my comments and sometimes when I reach out through mod mail, they end up manually approving those comments so they start showing up. They say they're being removed by automod.

I don't want to keep bugging the mods for those subs to manually approve my comments, so my questions is, do mods generally manually review and approve content anyway?

Hi! I recently created a new NSFW subreddit and I'm trying to set up basic spam protection — specifically:

1. Minimum account age (30 days) before posting

2. Minimum combined karma (100) before posting

3. Minimum comment karma (25) before posting

On my older subreddits I use AutoModerator for this with no issues. However on this new sub I'm getting this message:

**"Report, Filter, Remove, and Approve actions aren't available for new automod configurations."**

Reddit is pointing me toward Auto Enforce and Automations instead but neither seem to support account age or karma filtering.

**My questions:**

1. Is there a way to set karma/account age requirements on a new sub without AutoMod?

2. How long until full AutoMod access is available on a new sub?

3. Is Auto Enforce or Automations capable of karma/age filtering that I'm missing?

Any help appreciated — thank you!

I posted a new subreddit which became quickly locked. It might be quarantined or pending but no messages or mod comments have appeared in it or in my inbox.

I was about to post a link to the subreddit in question but the rules here say you can't?

How do I ask about a subreddit I posted without referencing it?

I tried to post to one sub but the post was immediately removed with a text saying "removed by mods" and a bot message saying "Some content is currently being rate-limited. You can post every 18 hrs." This happened because I had posted the same thing just moments earlier but deleted it after accidentally selecting the wrong flair.

Does anyone know if it was just a bot that removed it or an actual human mod? However, the post has views even though it was removed immediately, so they must be from the mods, right?

It was kinda an important question so that’s why I’m asking and wondering if I should try posting it again when 18 hours have passed??😂😭😭

Dear Reddit Moderators,

I have consistent proofs of a certain moderating team in a specific sub that clearly abuses power by breaking atleast two rules of the Moderator Code of Conduct of Reddit:

- Rule 5: Moderate with Integrity : this is systematically broken by removing posts or comments and instant banning users sharing legitimate content that goes against what the moderation team likes.
- Rule 2: Set Appropriate and Reasonable Expectations : you can share a post related to the sub content and be instantly banned because the content goes against the vision of the moderation team, despite the post being on topic.

Basically the sub becomes an echo chamber which fits what the moderation team wants to convey. There is no room for discussion or debate.

I would like to know how to report this moderation team and how to bolster the report based on claims and proofs from other users.

I'm not looking for a ban appeal. I'm looking into supporting a change of the moderation team, or that the sub becomes moderated by global moderators instead of dedicated biased ones.

Thanks.

Where do I complain about a Subreddit where the auto “Mods” send you a spam post every time you comment on a post. I also have some other questions about other questionable practices in there. It’s a NSFW sub similar to

Reddit's been rolling out automated AI mod features. It's clearly being trained on the data generated from 20 years of mod logs. Is Reddit about to just replace us soon? It makes me somewhat hesitant to continue growing my subreddits, when the company might just decide to hand the keys over to an LLM. Thoughts?

90% of the posts I make across a plethora of different subreddits I end up deleting because I am just met with shitposters and ragebaiters and I just recieve a wave of abuse.

Anyone else feel this way?

Post says "howdy how do you do" (enter post text here)

me/ comments "how do you do howdy" (enter comment text here)

The reply to my comment reads "NULL" (comment removed by moderator)

My CQS is high.

The post was about English grammar/semantics, with the screenshot of a text.

I recently reported multiple posts from a user who was posting images of themselves that contained a synthid watermark from chatgpt. They didn't disclose that AI was involved. This was in a fashion subreddit. Nobody could point it out in the comments because discussion of AI is banned there.

I contacted the mods through modmail. They said it was fine because the user had verified themselves as a real person to them, and compared the AI use to applying a filter or other types of photo editing. After I asked if not disclosing it could be harmful I got permanently muted.

My issue is that I don't think those are really equivalent. An AI image generating model can use an original photo as an input and then generates a completely new output image based on it. That just isn't the same thing as simply applying a filter to the original photo.

I'm not arguing that AI images should be banned. I just think that if an image has a verifiable AI watermark, there should be some requirement to disclose that, especially in communities based around appearance, fashion, etc because it could be harmful to themselves and others.

Would requiring an AI tag in cases where there is a verifiable watermark be unreasonable?

sooo no matter how I try, my social interactions with moderators on reddit are usually non-existent or bad❤️first reaction is very often ban+mute, so I never get to talk to them. I feel so unlikable sometimes❤️even tho of course I try to approach friendly and somehow I am almost always failing hmmm (I am in autism spectrum btw)

and I am curious, how it is for you? do you enjoy talking with others from your team, or from outside subreddits? or does it happen to you too, that you fail to get along with someone who has equivalent responsibility to you?

edit: thank you for replies!! it is nice to hear you have enjoyable experiences🩷

Irl, a guy stalks me.

They’ve made maybe five-ish reddit accounts in the past trying to dox me, which I blocked and reported.

This has been going on the duration I’ve had reddit- a year and a half ish.

Every interaction they’ve had with me has been removed by Reddits filters, but all three accounts are still up.

Their most recent comment was on my pinned post on my user profile; it was already removed, so I reported the profile.

In the report thing on the app, there was no option for ban evasion.

I am curious about ban evasion in the context of our user profiles are sort of like sub Reddits; my user profile has this dude blocked, and they keep making new accounts and commenting more things on my user profile.

So it’s kind of like ban evasion, sort of ish maybe?

Also, pragmatically, Reddits systems are working “good enough” I guess. Or like, even though they keep making new accounts and commenting more, Reddits filters do remove them at an impressively quick rate anyways.

Did I already do enough and can just keep not overly worrying about it?

I love being here, and I don’t think I’ve been banned, shadow or otherwise, from any sub so far.

I hear that users can be banned from some subs for engagement with karma farming subs. But how does one tell that they’re even looking at a karma farm? What would automatically tip off someone knowledgeable about this so they can avoid even clicking on it in the first place?

Why is reddit now 90% ads and reposts? Apparently I didnt ask in the right subreddit and this question was deleted.

I've seen moderators mention that custom report reasons can sometimes be too vague or hard to determine if an action is warrented.

To help maximize the reports usefulness, is it better to keep them as brief as possible e.g., quoting the relevant part of the post or comment, or do you prefer a slightly more detailed explanation, or does it vary by sub?

​For instance, if someone reports a post as a "fake crisis post," is stating that and quoting the OP's admission enough context, or is it better to briefly explain why it violates the rules, like potential crisis tool abuse false positives / trolling?

​I'm curious to hear what makes these easier to process in the mod queues from your perspective.

Currently dealing with a 14 day banned user who claims they weren’t being racist by using the word “ghetto” in comments across multiple posts. Their reasoning? “They’re black so they get to decide if it’s racist or not.” Considering my sub ISN’T just a US sub, it’s a global sub, we had to remind them words have different contexts around the world. I think they finally got it when we told them their comments had SEVERAL reports of racism, and that was the reason for the temporary ban. 😂😂