We run r /camping (5.6M members) and we’ve got a guy who was permabanned months ago for insulting the sub (“losers,” “lazy Americans,” etc). Ever since, he pops up every single time the 28-day mute expires. Like clockwork. He sends the same crap over and over — insulting mods, demanding unban, calling us “power tripping.”

The problem is… the tools suck. All we can do is hit mute again for 28 days, which means every month he gets another chance to harass us. Reports to admins go nowhere because it’s not threats or hate speech, so they just say “doesn’t break sitewide rules.” Cool, but meanwhile we’re wasting time muting the same person forever.

And this isn’t just a one-off either. We’ve had other banned users in the past do the exact same thing — wait out the mute, come back to harass us, repeat. With 5.6M members this kind of thing is only going to pile up, and right now we have no way to shut it down.

We need a way to permanently mute someone from modmail or at least some escalation path when someone keeps harassing moderators after a ban.

Anyone else dealing with this?

My sub keeps showing HOT posts but those are old posts, I want the NEW posts to be shown to all the users without having to use the pull down menu. You can still have the pull down menu to show hot posts but we should be able to set it to new posts to give a chance for new posts to be seen, otherwise we are stuck moderating old posts and the new posts are hardly seen.

Hey everyone!

I have been and currently still are a moderator for r/SonsOfTheForest and r/TheForest.
Both of the subreddits share a community discord server, which has exchanged hands about two months ago and went onto another member in the community.

Due to me being the second highest in the list of moderators and the original owner as well as a few other moderators leaving i was left at the top spot of the list.

I have then, a bit later, started to moderate more actively, especially once i noticed the lack of moderation that was occuring in both subreddits. Recently i even began clearing out all the unmoderated reports that have piled up over the last 2 years.

While the new owner of the discord was not really active on the discord nor the subreddit, i still wanted to create a good environment and generally respected any decisions made by the new owner.

On the 23.08 I was asked to please reorganize the list of moderators on the subreddit to align them with the discord server. To avoid unnecessary conflict that could arise from denying the request, i agreed and made the reorder in good faith.

So on the 24.08 i was removed from the staff team of the discord server without any explanation.

To my surprise i have not yet been removed from the mod team on either subreddit, which is most likely due to the new owner never actually moderating on them or checking in on posts being made.
Or there might also be a certain amount of time that needs to pass before the new top moderator can remove other moderators, i dont know.

So i now wanted to ask on how i could proceed here.
I worry that both subreddits, which together total roughly 200k members, could become under moderated in no time in the case of my removal.

I know one option is to hope that i wont be removed and wait for the now top moderator to become inactive. But if the top moderator decides to just approve one or two posts every now and then, that would also become impossible.

It is very likely that i will be removed from the reddit mod team in the near future, at which point i doubt anything could be done about this.
Apart from me both subreddits have no actually active moderator on the team and moderation before i had begun was spotty at best.

I already sent a ModMail to the Administrators, but i am not even sure if this is the correct place to ask about this,

I really appreciate any advice you all could give me, i made a mistake and i am aware of that, but i dont want these communities to possibly suffer from that.

I am not the original creator of the subreddit, we were two, but now it is only me, the original creator left the subreddit, so now I am the only Moderator. Now i am having issues changing the post and user flair. I can do other things except for these two.

Edit: I also cannot edit or change the subreddit rules

I run a mid-sized cosplay subreddit. Since August 12th, we have seen a sudden and drastic drop in user traffic. The decline is so sharp and obvious that we are wondering, if we did something wrong, or if Reddit changed something. 🤔

Average daily stats:

• Before August 12th: ~95,000 visits / ~2,700 new subscribers
• After August 12th: ~35,000 visits / ~170 new subscribers

Has anyone else experienced something similar? I wish I could share the graph it looks insane.
Honestly it feels like the entire subreddit got shadowbanned or something.

Context: I am one of two moderators and I have limited access while the other moderator has full access. Unfortunately the other moderator is inactive and also uncontactable. Is there a way I can gain full access to moderator the sub appropriately?

Our subreddit has a specific page on the wiki that we want to provide direct access to. Currently all mods can see it. However regular users get the message: "This page has been disabled. The mods of this community have disabled this wiki page." This is on Windows.

I have checked both the global settings of the wiki (/wiki/settings) and the page settings (/wiki/settings/pagename). They are both set to Public visibility = on

I note though that regular users can see /wiki/index

Known issue? Or am I missing something?

EDIT: I fixed it. You have to go to old.reddit.com/r/SUBNAME/wiki/PAGENAME/settings and switch to Approved Users may edit

Coming here humbly again to tap into the collective knowledge of this community for information regarding how to improve the way one of the communities that I support can recover and continue to grow.

Due to a mass spam event 5 weeks ago, our sub received a lot of what we will politely call "misdirected attention" from posters and commenters who would generally not be actively joining or engaging with us. Through a combination of manual muscle (thank you, Mod Reserves!!), app installation and other tweaks to sub settings, we've managed to turn the tide and regain control of the community. What we have not solved for is the stream (sometimes a trickle and other times a deluge) of continued misdirected attention that is choking off any interest posters have in adding to our feed and making impossible our ability to invite (and retain) new users to join.

Within the power of what is possible, can we essentially wipe the sub bare of all content (we have only 20 or so posts left after the Spam Massacre of 2025), let it sit dark for a few weeks, and effectively retrain the Discovery algorithm to send us users more aligned with our true mission and intent with fresh content when we come back?

Hi guys, have you ever struggled with posting official announcements on your subreddit?
Shared accounts, messy copy-paste, or not knowing who actually edited what?

That’s exactly why I built Press App - a tool that lets mods create, publish, and manage official posts and pinned mod comments quickly, safely, and without shared accounts.

Features

• Submit mod posts (text) with one-click sticky
• Submit mod comments, also with sticky option
• Mod note automatically added after each publish (who posted + direct link)
• Modmail notifications on by default for both submit and edit (keeps a safe copy of long posts)
• Discord notifications (optional) via webhook, very long posts may exceed Discord limits
• Auto-flair after posting (e.g., “Mod Post”)
• Auto-flair after commenting (e.g., switch to “Mods Replied” when a mod replies via Press App)
• Templates - save up to 3 reusable templates per subreddit
• Clone Post - quickly duplicate any previous post to reuse it (ideal for monthly stickies and AMA re-runs)
• Permanent delete - completely remove Press App content (not just “remove”)
• Locked distinguish - all Press App content is always distinguished and cannot be undistinguished

Quick start

1. Go to subreddit menu → select "Submit a mod post" option
2. Write your content, set options (Distinguish/Sticky are built-in)
3. Submit
   • An internal mod note is created automatically
   • A Modmail copy is sent by default

Templates

• Add up to 3 templates in settings: https://developers.reddit.com/r/YOUR_SUBREDDIT/apps/press-app
• Each template has an internal name, a prefilled title, and a prefilled body
• Select “Use template” when creating a post to load one

Auto-flair

• After posting: automatically apply a flair such as “Mod Post”
• After commenting: when a moderator replies via Press App, automatically switch the post’s flair (e.g., to “Mods Replied”)

Clone

• Need to refresh a monthly sticky or re-run an AMA? Click Clone on any previous post to create a new one with same title and body.

Notifications and logs

• Modmail notifications are enabled by default on every submit and edit
• Discord notifications can be enabled by adding a webhook (long content may be truncated)
• Internal mod notes are created automatically, showing who published and linking to the content

Permissions and settings

• To use Press App, you need Post or Everything permissions
• Configure templates, auto-flair, and Discord in the app settings: https://developers.reddit.com/r/YOUR_SUBREDDIT/apps/press-app

Coming soon!

• Scheduled posting (set posts to go live at a future time)
• Event reminders (click a bell on a draft to get a Reddit PM reminder)

Resources

• App
• Feature Post (since I can't post screenshots here)
• Terms & Conditions
• Privacy Policy
• Contact

Publish faster, safer, and with full accountability - with Press App. I hope you'll like it!

I assume we can't use the Snoo image, but would a vinyl sticker of r/subredditname be ok?

I used to see 5-10 ban evaders filtered in the queue of our fairly large (1m+) subreddit per week, but I haven't seen any in the past week. Is that just me, or has anyone else noticed something similar?

Has the algorithm or how Reddit deals with ban evaders changed? Or is that system just not working right now?

There are entire categories of new-wave spam

These last few months have been especially bad, as marketing automation tools turn their attention to "reddit seo" etc... and I'm ready to write an entire book on Dead Internet Theory

Like most subs - we've got all the right automod rules in place, but the volume of submissions that are falling through the cracks is climbing steadily. much of this spam is fairly undetectable on first glance

people are using LLMs to write large bodies of work that we have to read through to detect the spam in the first place

and now there's "category spammers"... who aren't pushing a particular product per se, rather trying to shift the conversation to a specific category of solution. when you review their comment history you can see them pushing their niche across all of reddit

Are Reddit keeping up to date with this cat-and-mouse game? It's getting harder to ensure only genuine human submissions make it into our subs

How do I as the channel owner/mod change my settings. I’m seeing way too many posts with a title and no body. I want the posts to need a body paragraph. How do I set this up

I choose the dropdown to send as the subreddit I moderate, but my username (labeled as "MOD") is still revealed to the end user.

Is this an intended behavior? Do we not still have the ability to send messages to users as the mod team?

This has already subjected me to unnecessary personal harassment from red-zone users, so I hope this isn't permanent.

Can we get some confirmation from admins that there are bugs in the profile privacy settings that allow some users to hide either their post or comment history even when they have made posts in our sub.

Technically we should be able to view their entire post and comment history for 28 days from the last time they interact with our community.

I've come across two accounts within the last few days where users have made comments/posts in our sub. If the user has made a comment... then their entire comment history is available but their post history has the message "this user likes to keep their posts hidden" and conversely if they make a post you can see their entire post history but not their comments history with the same notification that they like to keep their comments private.

This doesn't not work for us as a community we need to view their entire history to see whether they're current post fits our sub.

I want people with professional credentials related to my sub to be able to apply to have their credentials listed as a flair. How do I go about setting this up?

I have 2 subreddits but im not to experienced on how to make community highlights can I get some help please?

How was i banned for "harassment " when others that were bullying and clearly harassing me were not? I clearly was sticking up for myself and what i said compared to them was not even bad. Just the type of shit tik tok pulls. Not cool.

Clearly someone is reporting every comment they disagree with as hate. There are over a hundred such reports in the course of 10 minutes. Does Reddit eventually take away someone's report ability if they report hundreds of comments that are approved by mods in the course of a day?

I run a very, very tiny sub for a small gaming youtube channel.

An extremely off-hand comment (more of a single word) has gotten the subreddit swarmed by 5-6 accounts who are brigading the subreddit and harassing people.

They're now making alt accounts to bypass the ban to spam the subreddit some more.

How can I report "ban evasion" to the admins to get this issue solved up?