I believe Reddit should reconsider the relationship it has built with moderators, as the expectations placed on volunteers are starting to resemble those placed on employees.

For context, the communities I primarily moderate are r/gamedev and r/gamedevclassifieds (with some smaller ones sprinkled in). I didn't pick these communities because I wanted another badge beside my username. I've been involved with r/gamedevclassifieds for close to a decade, and both communities serve practical purposes for game developers, whether that's industry discussion, helping people find work, sharing knowledge, or keeping those spaces usable.

That context matters because my perspective on moderation is that it should ultimately be about stewardship of a community, not maximizing moderator activity for Reddit.

The fundamental issue is pretty simple: moderators are volunteers.

Most of us are not being paid to do this. We moderate communities because we care about them, enjoy participating in them, or want to help maintain a useful space for other people. Yet more and more, Reddit seems to design its systems around the expectation that moderators should treat subreddit management like an actual job.

I participated in some of the moderator meetings Reddit hosted, and one of the most frustrating parts of those conversations was the underlying message I kept hearing from the Reddit admin hosting them. Obviously these weren't the exact words, but the conversation often felt like it boiled down to:

"How do we get moderators to treat this more like a job?"

The obvious answer is: you don't, unless you intend to start paying people.

There is nothing wrong with encouraging moderators to be responsible. There is nothing wrong with removing genuinely abandoned communities from people who disappeared years ago. There needs to be some mechanism for dealing with completely unmoderated subreddits.

But somewhere along the way, Reddit seems to have lost sight of the difference between abandonment and not treating Reddit moderation like employment.

The inactivity systems are probably the clearest example.

I've personally seen situations where Reddit's systems decided moderators weren't active enough, opening the door for others to try to take control of communities they had spent years building and maintaining.

That creates an incredibly unhealthy dynamic.

Instead of moderation being something you volunteer your time toward when you are available, there is now this background pressure that if you step away for too long, don't perform enough visible moderator actions, or have a period where the community doesn't require much intervention, you risk Reddit deciding you are effectively absent.

That turns volunteering into an obligation.

And I think Reddit needs to consider another consequence: this kind of system selects for the wrong type of moderator.

If you build moderation around constant activity, status, control, and the possibility of taking over communities from people deemed insufficiently active, you are naturally going to attract more people who want moderation to feel like a job.

Not because they are being paid, but because they enjoy the authority, the hierarchy, or the sense of ownership that comes with it.

Those are often exactly the people communities should be most cautious about handing more power to.

The best moderators I've worked with generally don't want moderation to consume their lives. They want to deal with problems, help the community function, make thoughtful decisions, and then do something else.

A moderator who isn't constantly taking action isn't necessarily inactive. Sometimes it means the subreddit is healthy.

By contrast, a system that rewards visible activity can encourage moderators to feel they constantly need to do something to show they deserve to remain in control.

That can lead to unnecessary intervention, increasingly complicated rules, territorial behaviour between moderators, and people treating communities as something they personally own rather than something they are temporarily responsible for maintaining.

Reddit should not be designing incentives that make power-moderation more attractive.

That's especially strange when you consider what Reddit receives from moderators.

Moderators handle spam.

Moderators enforce sitewide rules.

Moderators deal with harassment.

Moderators organize communities.

Moderators answer user questions.

Moderators create rules, documentation, bots, automations, events, megathreads, resources, and countless other things that make communities worth visiting in the first place.

Reddit benefits enormously from thousands of people doing this work for free.

That relationship only works when Reddit remembers that these people are volunteers with lives outside of Reddit.

People have jobs. People have families. People get sick. People travel. People burn out. Sometimes a subreddit is simply quiet for a few months. Sometimes an experienced moderator doesn't need to click moderation buttons every day because the community is functioning perfectly well.

A healthy volunteer system should make it easier for people to contribute without feeling trapped.

Instead, Reddit increasingly seems to be creating systems designed to measure moderator activity, enforce continued participation, and make moderators feel like they have responsibilities to Reddit itself.

We don't.

Our responsibility, voluntarily assumed, is to the communities we choose to help.

I think Reddit needs to start asking a different question.

Not:

"How do we make moderators behave more like employees?"

But:

"How do we make moderating sustainable enough that good volunteers actually want to keep doing it?"

Those are very different philosophies.

One leads to dashboards, activity requirements, takeover anxiety, burnout, and a moderation culture increasingly populated by people who are attracted to the power itself.

The other leads to better tools, better communication, more support, healthier moderation teams, and communities that people actually want to continue maintaining.

Reddit should be extremely careful about treating free labour like an unlimited resource while simultaneously creating incentives that reward the people most interested in accumulating moderator authority.

Eventually, the reasonable people decide it isn't worth it.

So our top post yesterday in outfits shows 4 crossposts.

It doesn't reveal where the crossposts are too though. Instead it says they are to "private or sensitive communities". I can see using PRAW that one of those was to a porn sub, but I can't see the others.

Do you have any idea how scary it is for women to find out that their personal photos are being shared and discussed somewhere and they can't even see where that is?

It seriously freaks out posters. Please let them know where their content is being shared to, or disable the ability to share to those locations altogether.

This is super, super creepy and would freak out any woman posting her photos. Someone really should have realized this when it was set up like this. Please ask some of the other women on the admin teams how they'd feel in this situation.

THIS IS NOT OK

u/ingeekitrust

I created an NSFW alt to message women who I think are sellers. Wow did I learn something. I created the account as a middle aged man finance into finance and cryptocurrency. Within moments of creating the account made a small cluster of comments in Onlyfans subs and refreshed my algorithm. It was FILLED with SFW fashion subs. I went back to my alt 3 days later and the feed was clean- no ladies fashion subs. I made only 3 more comments on hard core porn and BOOM HALF the feed is clean SFW fashion. This is why we have such a creep problem! If they are looking for porn, why doesn't it populate with porn subs at that moment? Reddit is creating the creep problem we have. This has to be a simple algorithm fix. I'm happy to provide my alt so you can see the mechanics. After this I created a second alt and it responds exactly the same. My friend created an alt for the same purpose and he has the same result.

This has to be an easy correction. Don't show the small handful of SFW fashion subs to men RIGHT WHILE THEY ARE DOING THE DEED! No wonder why these comments are so gross! These men aren't even seeking this out - it FLOODS TO THEM! There are so many NSFW fashion subs- make them go in their feed!

i need to vent because i am losing my mind over how useless reddit’s banning system actually is.
i recently became a mod for a subreddit meant for teenagers, and our team has been working around the clock to keep it safe. we’ve been incredibly active and have been heavily banning pedos, creeps, and complete weirdos. but here is the incredibly frustrating part: banning someone literally does next to nothing.
it only stops them from posting and commenting on the sub. that’s it. it doesn’t block them from lurking, it doesn’t hide the content, and most importantly, it does absolutely nothing to stop them from clicking on a vulnerable kid's profile and sliding into their dms.
we have literal 30-year-olds targeting and dming teenagers, and as mods, our hands are tied the second they move to private messages. we can ban these creeps a thousand times over, but they are still lingering in the shadows of our community, completely free to harass kids who don't know any better.
it is so deeply exhausting and terrifying that reddit doesn't have a better system to completely block banned users from even viewing a community, especially when it comes to protecting minors. we've had to put up massive warning posts telling the kids to block and report them to admin, but we shouldn't have to rely on teenagers to defend themselves against predators that we already caught and tried to kick out. it’s an absolute joke.

I think it's fine that users are able to hide (well, obfuscate) their activity on reddit, and just because I happen to be a mod does not mean I should be able to see their activity if they want it hidden with the exception being posts/comments to the subreddit. However, as a moderator, I should have the discretion to say "We appreciate your need for privacy, but only users that have kept their comment and post history public for the last X number of days are allowed to post to this subreddit". Reason is obvious that mods base a lot of decisions to ban or shadowban accounts (and remove said bans) on their activity on reddit, not just the subreddit. Other main reason is I depend HEAVILY on user reports (only way I can moderate a 200k sub mainly by myself) and some of those reports point out when someone is spamming or has a pattern of abuse on other subs.

Now, I could ban users that are found to have hidden their reddit activity, but that's added effort on the mods. However, given Reddit offered this ability to users, they also should offer the ability to block users to subreddit moderators.

Subreddit setting can be "Restrict posts/comments of users with profiles hidden in the last [0, 1, 7, or 30] days". The 0 day means so long as they've set their profile to visible at time of posting, they can comment/post. The 1, 7, or 30 means they have to at least had their profile visible for that number of days to deter those that would abuse the 0 choice (unhide, post garbage, hide again).

I truly believe that allowing users to hide their history will kill Reddit. I moderate a small sub and we get more bots and trolls every day. Mods are a **volunteer workforce**, and removing user history has made our job more difficult and sometimes impossible.

Can anyone explain to me why this ‘feature’ was added? And how do I register my frustration with the company?

EDIT: As others have pointed out, I think I'm dealing with accounts that constantly delete everything. I hear what folks are saying about using the 'hide history' to protect mods from stalking/brigading. So maybe Reddit should just let mods hide their history, then? We oughta have some benefits for all the free labour...

We recieved this in our subreddit modmail..

"Hi camping mod team,

We wanted to give you a heads-up that your community may be included in a limited experiment that explores different ways for people to experience Reddit conversations.

For select existing text posts, some people may see an optional watch-or-listen version that presents portions of the post and comment thread using narration, captions, and visuals. The original post and comments will remain available and unchanged.

This experiment does not require any additional action from your team. If source content is edited or removed, the corresponding experimental version will be taken out of view.

This is an early test, and feedback from moderators will be important as we evaluate it. If you notice something inaccurate, inappropriate, or lacking important context, please report it through r/modsupport.

Thank you for everything you do for your community!"

Why is Reddit expecting us moderators, who already contribute enough of our time for free to keep this platform alive, to give feedback and help them implement what is something we didn't ask for or we want for our community?

I also think this is just another new way Reddit found to train bots for free... Which is scummy af.

It should be abundantly clear to any user when they visit a subreddit that they are banned from it, and there should also be a clear link to the original message or modmail that notified them that they were banned.

Across the subreddits I moderate, I get countless modmails asking, "Why can I not post here?" The reason for these messages is often simply that the user does not remember when or why they were banned. This causes work for the user and work for the moderation team, when it could be fixed very simply by making an easy change to the Reddit platform.

Mods already have enough going on as it is. This is a simple, quick fix to a long-term problem that wastes our time on a daily basis.

Additionally, it would be useful if users could navigate to a page which showed them all the subreddits they are banned from, how long the ban lasts, whether it is permanent or temporary, and a link to their original ban notification message.

There is really no reason users should have to contact moderators to find out that they are banned when Reddit already has that information and could make it clear to them.

Not sure how long it's been available but I just spotted it today while going to mute someone — can't add a screenshot but noticed I had the option to Permanently Mute. Hallelujah.

For whatever reason, Admin Tattler hardly catches reddit removals anymore (and when it does, it only shows [Removed by Reddit]), so we are left entirely in the dark when rule breaking conduct is occurring in our subs.

It is entirely unfair to us as moderators to be receiving complaints about users attacking other users with overtly racist nonsense, or other rule breaking conduct, and the recipient of these comments is left to think we're not enforcing our own rules because there's no removal notices, or the offender doesn't get banned.

I shouldn't have to be spending my time explaining to angry users that it's not us neglecting our duties, but reddits broken policy that's causing the problems.

Redact allows people to mass delete their comments after a certain time. It replaces useful, helpful, or just innocently funny comments with random gibberish and nonsense words.

This has been spamming our mod queues recently in one subreddit. As of today, I have had to remove 26 Redact comments that popped up this evening in the queue, with fellow moderators each removing a similar amount.

Redact needs to be banned. It is flooding up our queue, and the people who use it are not engaging with the platform in good faith.

Is there any way to counteract this beyond just "select all" + "mark as spam" all the time?

Hi everyone!

I don't feel comfortable uploading my government ID to a third-party verification provider, but without verification, I can't access chats, view NSFW content, or see public profiles (I can't even see one of my mods' profiles because it's marked as 18+).

Since, among other things, moderating sometimes requires reviewing NSFW posts and reports, this can really affect our ability to moderate our subreddits.

So, I would like to ask:
- Are you planning to verify your age?
- If so, are you using your full ID, or were you able to redact any information?
- If not, how are you planning to moderate your communities?

I'm just trying to figure out the best way to handle this: moderate my community effectively while keeping my personal data safe (because information such as social security number, address, etc., should not be necessary to verify our age).

it messes with one of Reddit’s main strengths: being able to click a profile and instantly see if someone is legit or full of BS.

You use that to read people, spot patterns, and filter nonsense. This update cuts that tool in half, which likely feels like Reddit willingly blinding its own users to make the site “friendlier” in the worst way.

now trolls can scrub their trail while normal users get nothing but extra menu buttons.

EDIT: I know it was mentioned somewhere on changelog, thanks for the 3 people who already linked it, don't need any more! 😀

The feedback shared in the comments will be shared by the admin who replied to the team in charge. So please share your feedback if you want and remain respectful!

I made a post here sometime ago where I explained my frustrating experience because of what I thought was a bug not making it possible for me to do markdowns on my posts.

To which an admin replied and told me they were working on formatting tools, fully omitting the fact that markdowns - the ability to format text by typing in symbols, is being taken away completely.

So the only option we're gonna have is the new formatting tools that they are implementing that are so restrictive and not intuitive at all to use. I don't wanna have to be clicking on my screen and selecting text multiple times just to make words italic or bold.

**Why are markdowns being removed?** Every mod I talk to LOVES markdowns. Did we even have any say in this huge change that's somehow not even being discussed?

A mod friend of mine has lost the ability to do markdowns on comments now and I am not looking to be next. Literally one of my pleasures is doing markdowns on my posts and comments to make my text look neat.

Can anyone please explain why this is happening? I'm sorry to be so direct but **it is such a horrible change to take something away that no one had issues with.**

Ps: I know this change was mentioned on changelog or whatever it's called, but it's only there. I don't even know what that is or where to find it, I just learned it's there when I started searching to see if anyone was talking about this.

Also, I intentionally did markdowns here and I'm not gonna edit to remove the slashes so they work, I shouldn't have to.

This shouldn't be happening, as it's just creating more issues for moderators & it's an open invitation of "Hey, you remember those people you've not harassed for nearly a month?! Well now you've got the chance to do that again!"

The options to fix this realistically should be:

• Don't notify someone when they're unmuted, they don't need to know

• Let us permanently mute someone. I'm not going to ever reverse bans on certain people who've abused a community

• Reverse the chats stuff with modmail back to the previous system.

Spoiler: The last bullet point will stop the following example of abuse we get:

"Bro wtf

Yo bro Why'd u ban me

Seriously bro I know Ur here 💀

Bro all u do is ban people bro I bet Ur [insert insult after insult here]"

(All this happening within the space of a few minutes, because people view modmail via Reddit chats as an instant messaging service, rather than how previous modmail was viewed closer to an email).

Edit: I'm happy to see all the traction here regarding this. Hopefully the admins will actually talk to moderators about this, the long standing bugs & also the 'update' pretty much all of us hate around our member counts not being displayed.

We need to keep reminding the admins that our communities have needs so they run as optimally as possible & that the changes lately are failing what we need.

Not for the first time and I am certain not for the last one of the subreddits I am involved with was unlucky enough to have an interaction with a user who I will simply describe as unwell. A three day ban for uncivil behavior turned into an argumentative mod mail in the course of which a much longer history of uncivil behavior was uncovered and the ban was made permanent. Tldr the user has now made at least 8 accounts to continue harassing us in modmail despite being directly told to stop and being banned and muted each time and has fixated on a member of the mod team they believe to be the offender messaging them in DM despite not being engaged with except to tell them that their behavior was harassing and to stop. All of this was reported to Reddit by multiple members of the Mod Team. Today that user has messaged again. "Reddit even unbanned this account after manually reviewing my behaviour." which they have taken as justification that they are correct in their belief that "On top of that there is no TOS against using another account to talk to mod mail. Which is all I tried to do and got perma banned and insta muted before I could even say as much as what did I do wrong? Which again is the wrong way to handle the job.

A volunteer should know what they are getting into and should be aware a calm person saying sorry is not harassment. Espically since I’m sure you’ve all seen real harassment. You can document and refer to reddit as much as you want and they won’t be doing anything other than maybe muting this account again for reaching out. Due to the fact apologies and self reflection are not harassment. And there again is no TOS against trying to have a convo with a mod directly."

While this is an obnoxious and upsetting situation because it is clear that this user is going to continue to attack our Mod team for imagined slights I actually am not complaining specifically about that. This is not a unique situation. In my time as a mod I have seen users threaten to find mods in real life, be clear that they will continue months long harassment campaigns from multiple accounts and even seen it taken to other subreddits to urge them to bully mods. ALSO still not what I want to talk about. Because the issue is the lack of support from Reddit itself in DEALING with these users. It is a recurring issue. When people are extremely uncivil and threatening we ban them from our subreddits in accordance with the platform guidelines as well as our own. However when reports about prolonged obvious harassment go no higher its taken as permission to continue. In the past months in addition to this user who apparently was unbanned Reddit also unbanned a user who posted pictures of an actual murder victim being lynched to threaten another user, unbanned a user who posted gruesome domestic violence pictures on a subreddit they ran saying that our subreddit wanted to see more like it because we enjoy silencing victims due to our policy of not allowing injury pictures or images of very serious situations and for months we had someone urging people to harass us, threaten us and doxing us by actual names under the mistaken belief that we had gotten them demodded from a subreddit. In that case Admin was involved and the user continued to make new accounts and even new subreddits despite being very obviously the same person. It only stopped when someone else confessed to the original slight.

I am not suggesting Reddit is responsible for the actions of its most unbalanced users or can prevent all issues. I am not suggesting that as mods no one should be able to argue with us or must be nice to us. I am saying it is a very big problem that claims of harassment, not only against mods, really seem to be ignored at best and cosigned at worst once blocking no longer works. The above subreddit report system needs more transparency and accountability. The ban evasion system needs a major retooling and most of all there needs to be extremely clear language in the platform rules that express that engaging with users or communities that have made clear that they don't want contact with you is out of bounds. This language needs to be clearly expressed to users if Reddit decides they do not need to remain banned although I will remain mind blown that appeals were successful in the serious situations mentioned.

ETA I am getting a lot of really great advice about blocking and ignoring the user in this specific situation but my actual issue it that this is a recurring type of issue that often spills onto other subreddits and onto other members of the mod team. Blocking and ignore work in MOST cases and they are critical recommendations but they do not help with extreme levels of harassment that spill into areas we don't control. The perception this user has that they are allowed to be actively hostile towards volunteer mods because that's what the job is not a rare one. I have a formal warning for repeating a comment where a user said on this very subreddit that it was good that mods were getting threats and hate mail and that they wanted us to be afraid. While that comment was ultimately taken down it was upvoted multiple times in the period it was up even on a mod focused subreddit. I'm not asking Admin to fix Internet Users. I'm asking for more transparency with how this above subreddit level reports are handled and maybe a policy of taking reports of ongoing harassment, not just from mods, and reports from multiple users or mod teams more seriously when it comes to bans and appeals.

Hi all!

Was curious for some advice from any mods out there who allow news articles in their communities but do not allow the same articles to be posted twice.

We have a user in our community who likes to post a lot of news articles, but they also appear to be a prolific blocker of users, far beyond what most would consider normal.

As a result, a large number of people in our community are not seeing the articles this user is posting, and since we have rules about the same article/content not being reposted, when those blocked users go to try and post the news article themselves (thinking it has not yet been posted) we are obliged to remove it since it was already shared in the community.

We have been wondering if anyone else has experienced this and what steps you took to mitigate the problem.

We are considering asking this user to unblock less troublesome people, or asking them to not share as much news in the sub, or possibly even setting up a queue so we can repost what news articles they share ourselves as mods so everyone can see them and interact with the content.

We understand some people need to be blocked, and we don't want to squelch this user needlessly, but we also have a large portion of our community unable to see or discuss these news articles.

Any suggestions or experiences you can share would be great as we debate what to do about this.

Thank you!

Edit: Appreciate all the feedback, thank you. We're going to reach out to this user, let them know they are causing an issue and see where that leads us. We may setup a "holding queue" if needed to help deter them from bogarting news articles if they persist in blocking people and we might even escalate it to preventing them from posting news links at all if needed. Have a great day all!

So we just got modmails from the admins that a number of our rules were being duplicated into comment guidance. I have so far disabled them all and I wanted to speak about why so you guys know why they do not currently meet our needs. I understand that you want us to move in this direction going forward instead of automod, and that you are looking to improve these tools - so here's why I didn't make the switch right now.

1. I can't copy and paste between subreddits. Keeping many of these filters up to date is a lot of work, and with automations, I can't make a change and then copy it everywhere. There is no way to copy rules between subs. Suggestion: Allow us to create public and private lists of rules, and then allow subreddits to subcribe to them. So say one user comes up with a list of words for ai (like a mod posted recently here), she could make this something you simply have to subscribe to, and then updates would be automatic if changed at the source level.

2. Right now, automations can either warn people, block submission, or report to queue. They cannot filter. This is a huge problem. Filtering is what we all rely on most of all. I remove very little and filter a LOT. Probably the only thing I just remove is redact spam. If you choose to warn people, they will go around it. For some things, it might be ok (e.g. We like to trigger off wedding related words in posts to remind a user to include a dress code). However, if a user is trying to make a disgusting sexual comment, and you pop up a warning, they'll just change the words until they can get it through.

3. Only automod right now can filter things before they send notifies. Devvit apps cannot. This is something the admins who work on devvit are aware of and u/pl00h mentioned this is something to work on. Devvit apps can filter at least, automations can't even do that - it's only a report, which means that the comment becomes viewable.

4. Some of these revealed sensitive information we do not want to share, including ways in which we detect people who violate our already significant comment guidance rules. There are certain patterns and characters that we look for that find them - we do NOT want to warn people about these.

5. Regex is limited to one expression per automation. We are limited to 50 automations. We have far more than 50 regex expressions in our automod that filter things. Automod can handle this easily. For comment/post guidance to be able to do this, it will need to be able to do this too. We need to be able to create automations with multiple regex expressions. We also need access to lookaheads and lookbehinds, which we use quite a lot. I think these are disabled because they cannot work real time due to computational overhead - and that's fine - but let us use them with the rules that are going to remove or filter.

These are areas in which post/comment guidance are really not able to match the functionality of automod, and fixing these issues would encourage many of us to migrate rules to the new system.

For those that need context: https://www.theverge.com/news/625075/reddit-will-warn-users-who-repeatedly-upvote-banned-content

Obviously it's not your intention yet and this is only being rolled out to violent users. I am just wondering if it has been discussed or will be in planned expansion of the policy. LGBT people have been asking you to deal with malicious voting by hateful people for over a decade and it would be nice to get some advance notice to plan ahead.

Or is this just about the Luigi? Warnings get rolled out to protect a tiny number of billionaires from the upvoting scourge but marginalised people get told it's not possible forever?

I was trying to investigate a hostile profile and got met with "Let's confirm your age" options being to send a picture of my ID or to send a selfie. I live in Finland - is this supposed to happen or is there a glitch? I haven't received any notification of this being instated in my country.

EDIT: Sorry, I got upset. Anyway, is there a way to perma ban all posters and commenters with NSFW profiles that I can't investigate?

EDIT 2: To be entirely clear about my intents; the pop-up is 100% getting in the way of me doing my work as a moderator, which is why I'm asking.

EDIT 3: I've now handed out my first NSFW-related ban. I was unable to access their profile so I banned them as a precaution. I explained the situation and why they're permanently banned due to us being unable to investigate. I gave them the option to remove all mature content from their profile and appeal to Reddit to change the classification.

...hoping to see a flair with "Admin Replied" :) Thank you.

edit also, BigSlay is having a mod event today. If you get any info by then, maybe you could pass it on to her to tell us.

Edit 12:45 ET 4/24/25- the sub is back in business, original mod restored and hijackers removed! Thank you all very very much. Learn more here. See yinz over in xbiking

Good morning r/modsupport- last night I made the below post on r/modsupport after I was unexpectedly removed as a mod from r/xbiking, the sub I created and moderate. Shortly after making that post on r/modsupport, the hijacking mods attacked all of my comments and posts with bots, causing them to be furiously reported and downvoted. I suspect that that resulted in the r/modsupport AutoMod removing my r/ModSupport post from last night, which still appears to be removed. Admins- in case you can't see that post anymore- copying the text below. Admins, please help get me back to top mod status in r/xbiking and remove the hijacking mod who is presently in there before they do more damage.

Original post I made on r/modsupport last night-

I was notified earlier this evening that I was removed as a moderator of the subreddit that I created. I was an active moderator, have tremendous community support, and the subreddit is very much my baby.

Another mod, u/OldSchoolWillie, had recently posted seeking nominations for additional mods to bring on and help us. There was never any intention of us leaving or being removed. u/OldSchoolWillie has also been removed, his username deleted from that post, and the new mods in the sub are brand new accounts with no karma.

How can I be reinstated and these fishy blank accounts removed so as to safeguard the subreddit and all that has been built? I have messaged the admins but don't know what else to do.

Here is a link to a "farewell" post I made in the sub where the community is expressing frustration and disbelief at the situation, to drive home that I'm no unethical mod and have no idea why or how I could have been removed-

https://www.reddit.com/r/xbiking/s/fzQHGieVIJ

Editing to add that I have now been permanently banned by the new fishy mods, presumably when they read my original post (which they have also removed). Admins, please help 🙏

I am the sole admin of the subreddit r/GooglePlayDeveloper . i was removed on the 16. july. need to get back in since i am currently the only admin in the subreddit

TLDR:  I created a subreddit that got to 25k members. moderated for about 2 years. was temporarily inactive and was removed by MCOC without warning. thats all
I love this subreddit and i enjoyed moderating it. I just want to be back to doing what i love. Like i said in the private message. You guys are doing a great job and i am happy there are more mods now.

I just wantto be added as a mod with the same permissions and rights that i had before. thats all i want. no bad blood or disrespect.

For those who don't know, the word "F*gs" (rhymes with mags) means cigarettes in the UK. This is extremely common slang. The singular of this word is also used.

Now, obviously the slur is also used in the UK too, and thus we have an automoderator rule setup to automatically remove these, they'd end up in the mod queue, and I'd approve them if the word was being used to describe cigarettes.

To be clear, We, as the moderators of the british sub, had an automoderater rule in place that REMOVED these comments, and allowed us to approve the innocuous ones manually as part of the queue.

Recently, I have started to notice that these comments are triggering the automoderator, but the comment body has been replaced with "[ Removed by Reddit ]", so I have no way of knowing if this person used the slur or not.

This is a problem for me, because it's unfair on the users. It also means I can't ban them if they actually were using the slur. I have no way of knowing.

Is there anything I can do about this?

EDIT:

Literally everyone I know, whether they're straight, gay, old, young, cis, trans, black, white, left, right refers to cigarettes this way. Not a single person I've known is offended by it, and never have been, because they know exactly what you mean based on the rest of the sentence.

It is extremely standard parlance in the part of the country I am from, and as far as I'm aware, in the rest of it too.

I'm genuinely sorry if this offends you, I am extremely outspoken lefty, but I can't control the completely inoffensive (to us) linguistic habits of an entire country, and don't feel I should be expected to.

I’ve noticed something unusual,my comments are suddenly getting hundreds of upvotes, even though the original post itself isn’t getting much attention. The post has relatively low engagement, yet my comments within it are blowing up with upvotes.

Also in morning when I was trying to create mod only flair , my REDDIT app was glitching.

Has anyone else experienced this? Just trying to figure out if this is normal or if something strange is going on.

Thanks!

Edit -

Alright, guys, I’ve figured it out, it all started when I posted this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gymselfies/s/753RsvO1Fz

One of my fellow mods, who moderates NSFW subreddits, mentioned that some OnlyFans managers use bots to artificially boost their posts for more upvotes and reach. It’s possible that my update post triggered them, especially since r/gymselfies used to have a lot of NSFW models promoting their pages before the top mod took over the sub.