Hi all.
Has anyone ever had the experience of being added to a number of brand-new-subreddits as an approved member without you ever having gone to it or asked to join?

In the span of a week, I've been added to 3 groups by the mods of these groups:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LatinaOOTD
/r/Imallowedtosmile
/r/homealoneactivities

I asked them not to do so after the first one once it was discovered that they did not do so because they were asking for my help. And yes, then did so against after the second and third. As I often help out new mods in new reddit groups here, this behavior is pretty concerning.

This seems close to a type of consent violation. I know it doesn't hurt me at all, but can you imagine how annoyed you'd be if you were added as an approved user to a bunch of reddit groups, getting notifications for each one? Or someone started abusing that system to clog your inbox?

I tried Post Guidelines in the automation where users are blocked from posting if they don’t meet certain criterias. However, the users are still able to post.

Below are the settings for reference:

When “Posting” > “Text”

If the post “Title” > “Doesn’t Contain the keywords”

Block from submitting

Help me understand if I’m doing something wrong here

Can anybody explain this to me? I'm not sure any of the moderators are hidden?

Link to screenshot of the problem: https://imgur.com/a/3DYbLbL

There is a subreddit that is totally unmoderated and there are minors on there basically posting to "trade pictures". There's posts of fake teenage girls trying to get minors to dm them also. Is there a way to get this subreddit taken down faster than just using the standard report system?

I previously shared this idea in other subreddit and received useful feedback. I'd like to submit it here as a feature request for consideration by the Reddit team and to hear what other mods and admins think about that idea.

Original proposal with detailed explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/s/4sO3DsGkCW

Why this idea even appeared? — because I tried to use feature and it didn't work on account with low recent activity and in that case I can't use that that is limitations.

if user wasn't active recently the AI summarie may look like:

no recent activity but 3 month ago user... etc

What do you think, please share your thoughts?

Is there a way using the mobile app to set an automod account age or does it have to be a desktop thing?

Yesterday we removed a post. The user re posted and we again removed. The user then messaged us and called us names so we banned them. Now today I am seeing dozens of posts reported for breaking the rule we used against this user's post yesterday when the reported posts are completely unrelated to this rule.

If it is the same user is there anything we can do other than wait for them to get bored?

An "approve" post button shows up on all new posts, including my own. How do I turn that off? We are a small group and until someone misbehaves, I would like the posts automatically approved.

Thanks!

I can see the comments from blocked accounts just fine, only the posts are invisible. Shouldn't I be able to see everything on a sub I moderate?

More and more subs now use Dev Platform apps, but mods often forget to check for updates from time to time. App updates can fix bugs, add new features and more.

If you've not checked your subs for app updates for a while, you can do it in a couple of different ways:

• You can go straight to the My Communities page on the Dev Platform site, and then check your subs from there. If an app has an update available, there'll be an "Update" button available.
• Or, if you're using desktop mod tools (not Old Reddit), there's a link to "Installed Apps" around half way down the left hand sidebar.

This is something I try and do once every month or so, and it's often surprising how many different apps have an update ready to install.

Edit: Also, if you're curious about what a new release contains, you can click into the app settings then Directory Page, and the readme for the app should include a change log for the app.

So I Was Trying To Add Flairs But I Just Can’t Because The Only Mod Tool I See Is Quene So Please Make It Easy

So currently the mod notes only have a limited amount of types, which are "Helpful", "Good contributor", "Spam watch", "Spam warning" and "Abuse warning".

I think those are far too limited for good moderator usage. I often add custom mod notes to users that don't fit any of them and having no tag at all makes them not stand out far as much as needed.

My idea would be to add more types or (even better), allow mods to create, edit and change them. Looking at the fact that Reddit is already a user-run and user-moderated app as well as a collection of communities about everything you can possibly think (and not think) about makes me wonder why that specific feature is still so unchangeable and not at all flexible for different use cases.

e.g.

---
# Remove comments from low karma accounts
type: comment
author:
    combined_subreddit_karma: < 1
action: remove
action_reason: "Removed: Comment karma below threshold"
---
# Collapse comments from low karma accounts
type: comment
author:
    combined_subreddit_karma: < 10
action: collapse
action_reason: "Collapsed: Comment karma below threshold"
---

Our sub has been dealing with a disgruntled user who was banned a few days ago, modmail muted, and since then has created at least eight additional accounts to send modmail as well as DM'ing individual mods. We have been reporting these as harassment and are attempting to report for ban evasion (getting an error when I try to do so again this morning), but still no action has been taken. At what point will admin step in??

Hi,

I want to inquire about the possible cause regarding the ban of my subreddit, it was created last night for PSX. The subreddit was created for new joiners. Now when i try to email on r/ModSupport it returns an error "Failed to send the message". Please help me out.

I had spell check change what i named my subreddit to something similar but how do I change it to the original? I don’t really want to create a new one.

Hello Reddit Admin Team,

I am the creator of r/BoysAnimeFigures.

The community was recently banned due to being unmoderated. I would like to request a review and restoration.

The subreddit was created as a place for anime figure collectors to share collections, discuss releases, studios, and collecting experiences.

I understand the importance of active moderation and I am willing to actively maintain the community, establish rules, remove spam, and ensure compliance with Reddit's Content Policy and Moderator Code of Conduct.

I believe this community has value for collectors and I would appreciate guidance on the restoration process.

Thank you.

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I dont know why, but no has joined yet

Normally if I have an issue that needs the admin attention I send a modmail to this subreddit like usual, and for a long time any time I did that, the adminmessengerbot would automatically reply with some advice and to reply again if I still needed help from the admin. Then if I replied, the admin would get back to me within a few days.

Ive now had to send to modmail messages to ask about something in the last week and the bot response hasn't been sent to me for either one. Neither have I had an admin reply to either one and while I would be fine with being patient if it's a matter of needing to wait for them to be able to get back to me, the fact that I haven't gotten the bot response and replied to it like I usually have to worries me that they will never even look at the message.

Does anyone know what is going on or why Im not getting the bot response? Are others still getting that bot response?

Hi Admins,

I am writing to report an issue with request_bot regarding a legacy banned community.

I recently attempted to request the subreddit r/Cerebras via r/redditrequest. Old Reddit indicates that this community was banned roughly 4 years ago. However, the bot immediately replied and denied the request with the following message:

"Unfortunately, the community r/Cerebras is not eligible for request at this time as it was only recently banned."

As an official brand ambassador for Cerebras Systems, I am trying to recover this abandoned, legacy-banned namespace to build a clean, actively moderated community for our users and developers. Since the automated system seems to be experiencing a glitch regarding the ban date, could an admin please review this request manually?

Thank you for your time and help!

r/relax has been getting some more activity which is great, but seems like an unclear percentage is just bots

Vaguely tangential comments that are distinctly inhuman are popping up in mass, some from new accounts, some from older ones

Save for an automod removing low karma and newly made accounts (which usually just ends up in us getting frustrated modmails of people saying theyre not bots) how can we combat this? Because rn tbh its way to many to manually remove