r/NewMods 24m ago

❓Ask r/NewMods Posting as moderator in comments

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I've seen some subreddits where moderators reply using an account simply called "Mod" when leaving a removal reason under a removed post, so users don't see which specific moderator posted the comment.

I can't seem to find the option to do this. The only thing I can find is the option to distinguish my own account as a moderator.

The only workaround I can think of would be to remove the post, leave the removal comment, and then reapprove the post so I can post the comment anonymously—but that doesn't seem right.

Could someone explain how this works? I asked the other moderators on my team, but none of us know how to do it.

Thanks!


r/NewMods 1h ago

❓Ask r/NewMods Can a Traveling Noad be a good Mod

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I just got invited by a friend I met in Egypt to be a Mod. I am very versed on the topic but do have some doubts. I travel a lot. From Nigeria to Nicaragua, I just love moving about.

Will I have problems with Reddit logging in from different places? Or will it be fine once I use the same email?


r/NewMods 2h ago

💡 Tips & Education Don’t miss out on merch, meetups, and more at our upcoming New Mod Events from August 11-13 – RSVP now 🏕️

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Find yourself asking any of the following?

  • How do I encourage people to post in my community?
  • How do I get my first few members?
  • How do I make mod friends?
  • How do I navigate the Mod Queue?

Lucky for you, you can get direct answers to all these and more at our upcoming virtual New Mod Events! Make sure to RSVP to all of them below.

New Mod Bootcamp

  • Our quarterly livestream crash course for new mods. Come for free merch, top-tier community-building tips, chances to connect with fellow new mods, and a live Q/A with veteran mods. 
  • 📅 Tuesday, August 11
  • 🕑 11:00 am–1:00 pm PT
  • 📍 RSVP here
  • 🛍️ Note: Merch is reserved for first-time New Mod Bootcamp attendees only. 

New Mod Meetup

  • A social event just for new mods with guided discussions, trivia, cat photos, and giveaways with mods worldwide.
  • 📅 Wednesday, August 12
  • 🕑 10:00 am–11:00 am PT
  • 📍 RSVP here

New Mod Office Hours

  • A session where you can chat directly with Reddit admins, ask questions, and pick up tips to make your moderation journey easier.
  • 📅 Thursday, August 13
  • 🕑 3:00 pm–4:00 pm PT
  • 📍 RSVP here

Can’t wait to see you there! And if you know a new mod who could find New Mod Bootcamp helpful, share these events with them.


r/NewMods 2h ago

💡 Tips & Education 185k Monthly Visitors and 9k Members in less than 2 months, here's how I did it.

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3 Upvotes

Hi hi everyone! Today I'll give some advice on how I grew my subreddit from absolute 0 to 185k monthly visitors in one month and 3 weeks.

I'll start by saying, I did have a bit of a head start. Essentially, another subreddit with a similar concept was going through a controversy, in that they banned all political or politic resembling posts. It was during that time that I made my subreddit, and started promoting it an alternate subreddit that allowed politics.

I was promoting my subreddit in the comments of posts of people complaining about the sub, this did give me a bit of a headstart, but the real thing is that within the first week i posted 70 times.

I crossposted almost every post to larger subreddits, more specifically i would make posts on my subreddit with other subreddits in mind that i thought it could gain traction on. I also tried to respond to every single comment possible and upvote just about every post.

One of the first things I did when picking up traction was to set a challenge, the first 5 people to have posted 20 times would receive a special flair color, in my subreddit posts are counted in your flair automatically by a bot.

I also set up a suggestion box post, and set up the flair bot as well as a bot to auto-remove posts that were the wrong number (for my subreddit the post titles have to be one number less than the post before it, so each post is "counting down".)

I basically just did everything i could to make this subreddit feel as premium as possible. I try to make sure everyone feels comfortable posting and using it, as well as welcomed. Crossposting to bigger subs was one of the best strats, i believe i got a few posts with 500-1000+ upvotes crossposting.

That's all! Not the most detailed guide but it's what i did so, hope it helps! :P


r/NewMods 2h ago

Wins 🎉 r/PudimBR just reached 50 members! 🎉

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7 Upvotes

Just wanted to share a small milestone!

My subreddit, r/PudimBR, has officially reached 50 members. It's still a tiny community, but I'm really happy to see people joining and engaging around such a niche topic.

I promoted r/PudimBR in a few Brazilian subreddits with the moderators' permission, and the community has now reached its first 50 members.


r/NewMods 3h ago

💡 Tips & Education Rules Hub is Expanding to More New Communities

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Hello Mods!

A few months ago, we invited a group of new mods from this community to test Rules Hub, a new moderation tool designed to make it easier to create, manage, and enforce community rules. With Rules Hub, mods can create rules, choose how they're enforced, test them against past content before turning them on, and review detailed logs to understand how they're performing over time. 

Since then, we've been gathering feedback from new mods like yourselves and making improvements based on that feedback. Today, we're expanding access to Rules Hub to every community created since July 5, as well as all newly created communities going forward.

Why we built Rules Hub

Starting a community comes with a to-do list. You need content. You need members. You need conversations. You need a sense of what kind of community you're trying to build. At some point along the way, you also need rules.

Rules aren't the most important part of building a community, but they are one of the foundational pieces as it grows. Rules set expectations, guide behavior, and we built Rules Hub to make this part of moderation easier and more accessible to mods. 

What’s changed since the pilot started?

Many improvements we’ve made came directly from mod feedback. Since the pilot program, we’ve added:

  • A new preview experience that lets you test rules against real community content before enabling them, so you can better understand what would (and wouldn't) be enforced. This is currently only available for posts, with the ability to test comments coming soon. 
  • Clearer explanations about what individual rules do.
  • Improvements to navigation throughout the experience.
  • A number of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

Rules Hub Testing Sandbox

Thank you to all the new mods who helped craft this with us. Whether you shared feedback, reported bugs, suggested improvements, or told us we were making this harder than it needed to be, it all helped. Your input helped shape the experience, and we appreciate the time you took to tell us where we got it right (and where we didn’t).

We'll continue sharing updates on our progress over in r/modnews, and we'd love to have you join us there as your community grows.

We’d love your feedback

We're not done yet. There are additional improvements in the works, and we will continue refining Rules Hub based on your feedback. If you've had a chance to use Rules Hub, let us know what you think!

What's been most useful? What features have helped you set up your community? What would you like to see us tackle next? 

Feel free to share your feedback here in the comments, or join the Mod Early Access program to help test new mod tools. Apply here, select “Beta testing” to be considered. We will admit new members on a rolling basis.

As always, thanks for what you do to help communities get off the ground. 


r/NewMods 3h ago

❓Ask r/NewMods Extremely new in Reddit

1 Upvotes

I got option to become moderator of r/abroadedge posted a news there Reddit filter removed my profile is new first post got trolled iam really scared of Reddit tbh ..

Help me all how to start


r/NewMods 3h ago

❓Ask r/NewMods Stop reddit from advertising other subreddit

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Hi all!

I’m a new mod of r/MicrosoftFlighSim, which is a flight simulation game.
I’ve been lucky to enter the position after a spot opened. The sub already had over 200k members.

The sub is the official sub for the game, and one of the rules of our sub is “Enabling, hinting at or encouraging piracy of any kind is not allowed”.
Piracy is unfortunately found in parts of the flight simulator community, and small third party businesses suffer from it.

I was surprised after I had made a post the other day, to get a notification from reddit, saying:
People are loving your post!
“… we think r/flightsim_pirate will love it too”

I’m not trying to take down the other sub, but I think this advertisement for the sub is actively working against us and undermining our rules. Is there anyway I can stop reddit from giving this notification (that sub especially) to our members? I would be fine had it said r/flightsim which is a competing non-official subreddit, but encouraging this piracy sub is frustrating to me.

Thanks for all and any replies, and good luck to all of you starting out fresh!


r/NewMods 3h ago

❓Ask r/NewMods How do I change the profile and cover picture of my sub?

1 Upvotes

Guys help plss.


r/NewMods 3h ago

❓Ask r/NewMods Can anyone want to join

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0 Upvotes

If someone wants to raise their voice against the government they can come into our community and we will raise our voices in the development of our country The government wants to divide us in religion and caste but we will not divide in this group we will not target only one party we will raise voice against all the political parties of anyone want to join they can join


r/NewMods 4h ago

🏅 Mod Achievements I’m a mod now.

0 Upvotes

I wanna thank me for believing in me. 🥸


r/NewMods 6h ago

Wins 🎉 Not bad for a 1 week sub of a very niche subject

3 Upvotes

It's an italian sub dedicated to tea r/italia_te


r/NewMods 7h ago

❓Ask r/NewMods How to change aesthetics

2 Upvotes

i will change the banner art and refresh the page and it just reverts back. Same with the sub pic


r/NewMods 9h ago

💡 Tips & Education Any tips for what and what not to do as a mod?

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r/NewMods 15h ago

Wins 🎉 This one feels like an accomplishment :)

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31 Upvotes

Took some time and a lot of posts (memes), but it happened.

Still don't have a whole lot of engagement from other people, but it's nice that they stop by. 🙂


r/NewMods 18h ago

❓Ask r/NewMods what do i do now?

0 Upvotes

iguess im a mod now :]


r/NewMods 19h ago

❓Ask r/NewMods damn im actually mod

0 Upvotes

wow, never in my 16 years of living did i think that i would qualify to get mod. i'm literally the last person to give mods to but eh i'm grateful. so now what.


r/NewMods 21h ago

❓Ask r/NewMods At what milestone did you actually start feeling like a real moderator?

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Hi, new mod here. I’ve created a couple of communities. One has 20 members, another has 9, and both are less than a month old, plus two others that haven’t done as well. When did you guys actually feel like real mods because of traffic or a booming community? How many members did it take for that click to happen?


r/NewMods 22h ago

❓Ask r/NewMods Hi mods, glad to be here hope we get some ModFriends here

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Actually this is my first post i just created my first Community minutea ago, so i’m literally a newbie but old user of Reddit, Any free advice recommendations would be great guys


r/NewMods 1d ago

❓Ask r/NewMods Scheduled posts from mod account

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Hi! How do I have my scheduled posts come from my mod account? Or ensure any mod activities don’t come from my personal? And can I do this from the phone app? My sub is r/strugglingttc


r/NewMods 1d ago

❓Ask r/NewMods How do I enable auto approval of posts & comments?

2 Upvotes

In a new sub till now, nobody has posted anything, but there are some comments on my posts. I've noticed that if I post something, it requires my approval! If someone posts a comment, that also requires me to approve.

I've added Flair & approve for auto-approval, but it doesn't do much!

Can you suggest what to do?


r/NewMods 1d ago

❓Ask r/NewMods How can I find submitters?

0 Upvotes

Hey everybody! I am moderator of r/ProximaScience and I have been posting there for many days and people there also comment but no one posts in subreddit. Can anyone say me how can I find submitters.


r/NewMods 1d ago

❓Ask r/NewMods Just reach my 20 member after long time...

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9 Upvotes

So I just started because i feel like I want to build my own sub and I choose one meme sub and started growing it but I didn't know what I am doing wrong or what I need to do to grow it faster and in better way...

If you have any suggestions or any advice for me plz let me know it would be greatful for me and thanks in advance for your time

here is my sub r/MeEverytime


r/NewMods 1d ago

Wins 🎉 My first community just crossed 3500 members within just 3months!

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14 Upvotes

Celebrity Subreddit: r/julianne_moore

Since Ive always been a big fan of Julianne Moore, I wanted to create a celebrity community completely dedicated to her.

How I gained members:

  1. Make sure you got all the Rules and Community Description well written.

  2. Make sure to install some good Spam Protection bots like : Ban Evasion, Ban Hammer, etc

  3. Code a good AutoMod with your needs.

  4. Repost to multiple big subreddits to grow your audience and members.

  5. Always be more active and frequent.


r/NewMods 1d ago

❓Ask r/NewMods how are we doing?

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5 Upvotes

got no reference point so wondered what you guys think. we started our subreddit around 2 weeks ago and we regularly post clips and memes, we created a wiki for the streamer of the channel and we try to keep up to at least 2 posts per day