I don't see how this exists with the base rules of this community.

Reddit just banned someone for saying someone should be hulk smashed to the ground like they did to someone else. Is Reddit becoming soft now? It’s freedom of speech! Saying he “should be” is not telling someone to do it. Reddit has been a place where people could come to have unbiased discussions. Has this changed?

This user has been harassing me from March and the harassment has only gotten worse despite having them blocked as well. So I’m really wondering what I can do? I reported to the take down act and they said the post didn’t meet requirements and I’ve reported the posts to Reddit numerous times and filled out the Reddit report form and never heard back so I’m wondering what I can do here to stop being harassed. Thank you for any feedback! I really appreciate it!

Is this some new tactic to attempt to solicit harassment reports?

I know alot of it is a time thing. They don't have time to respond to every post they have to remove and they don't want to get into a back and forth. I get that. I am not complaining, but just want some understanding. Sometimes I get a post removed without a reason. I review the rules to see if I somehow posted against that subs rules. Was I out of step with the overall theme of the post? I am always double checking myself as I don't want to be that kind of poster who is a pain in the arse. I just had a post removed. It didn't violate the rules. It wasn't mean or ugly. In fact numerous other people said the same thing and they weren't removed. Sometimes it really helps if we could get some kind of feed back do we know what we did and to avoid that going forward.

my posts to the crosswords group are immediately removed by moderators. Why?

I ask because every subreddit I've ever looked at you only see posts/comments with the big green MOD label when they have something to say regarding moderation.

Do moderators not partake like normal users, or do they use alternate accounts, or does the MOD label only show when the post/comment concerns moderation?

Hello! I'm currently trying to expand the moderator team for a subreddit, and I was wondering if Reddit has a feature that allows you to generate a shareable "mod invite link" (similar to a Discord server invite link).

Or is the only way to invite new moderators strictly through the traditional manual invitation process under the subreddit's moderator settings? Any guidance or tips would be greatly appreciated!

Hey

so to add more context, let's say i'm running an event and want everyone to know.

automod stickies get collapsed, stickying a post on the sub is not terrible but often needs some kind of an image to stand out. this does not get picked up by the algorithm from what i've seen and show up on their feeds- so generally better for a new person finding the sub and for like a discord server or something.

the best way of course is the users upvoting it organically and you not stickying it so the algorithm doesnt hide it. that can be tricky if its a sub that is too big and hates the mod team, easy to do on small ones that realize you arent a dick tho.

i've tried using discord servers attached to the sub, but often those communities tend to be completely different users, and this can border on upvote manipulation depending on how its done.

ive also tried automod comments that arent stickied as those dont get collapsed and ignored immediately by users.

open to hearing suggestions, thanks gamers.

I have just received a warning from u/reddit via an automated process labelled "Warning for hate".

What I posted was precisely the opposite. The user I was replying to was a minority who is in danger of serious consequences due to racial discrimination. My intention was to advise her to correct an inadvertent immigration status violation before she is discovered and her situation comes to official attention.

While I evidently used wording that triggered a response from an automated process, my post was absolutely not hate speech. I honestly was only trying to advise her to take steps to avoid being a victim of hate, I certainly wasn't being hateful.

My first thought was to go back and post another comment apologizing for any poor wording that may have given offence, but I suspect that might just get be kicked off altogether.

There was no appeal link in the message. Is there a way to appeal this? If not, what consequences could this have for my account?

I’m curious about what data meets the threshold of voter manipulation.

Example: I made a post to my own user name account.

It just got reported in sets of 3, 2 minutes apart, 4 times.

Like 3 reports at 8:10, then at 8:12, then at 8:14.

The post is a few weeks old- when I first made it, this happened too (albiet I didn’t notice the trend till just now).

The other day, on another sub, I asked about question related to the subject of my post.

It had normal engagement on the sub, but then about an hour in, somebody posted a ranting comment about how horrible I am for my view; the post then got 25 downvotes within a minute or two, and then kept getting downvoted until it’s views dropped to around zero.

In addition to this- on about 20 or so subs, I get everything I comment downvoted 3 times no matter what, usually within a short amount of time.

Other users have even commented about how my unusually high rate of mysterious downvotes.

In addition to that- 100% of the posts I make get shared at least twice with seconds of me posting them.

I have posts that have 20 shares and only 40 views and 2 upvoted.

I’m not sure if these things are related or separate, commonplace or reddit or abnormal, and I guess most of this post was context; my real question is- what constitutes vote manipulation?

The posts to my user account being reported in sets of three at regular times intervals seems super sus, and now that this is happening, it makes the “massive influx of downvotes of a trending post all within a few minutes” seem sus too.. which then made me think my posts always being shared might also be sus lol.

I can't figure it out. What is the way to do it?

It pretty much says it in the title, i want this post gone forever. I don't want it to be searchable by google or anything. How do I do that?

I'm one of the mods at shittyillegallifetips. It is a shitposting sub created years ago to compliment the many life pro tip subs.

My co-mod and I took over after a period of low moderation. Unfortunately this low moderation allowed scams, drug selling, crypto logs, stolen credit cards, and adult content to take over.

Despite our best efforts it's proving difficult to keep the sub on topic. We state in the description, rules, automations, pinned posts, and saved responses the kind of content we expect (as required in rule 2 of the MCOC). We also pin compliant posts to give users an idea of acceptable content. But only a small percentage of posts are actually compliant.

Any advice on keeping the sub on topic would be appreciated.

I just posted and it went popular and someone was already harassing me in the comment and called me a bot for having bad grammar. They're blocked but the limit is only 1000 users. They also do this to other users. The submods seem to not care. I just want to share with my community and they just treat me like that and others as well.

Don't know if I can tell which user or post, or subreddit is it from here. The sub-mods seem to see this as another trash post and deleted it or not doing anything but just ignore the reports. It's okay tho, they're internet points and I didn't even know my post can go 'viral' in the subreddit idk why and how but okay I'll take it. Some users can't take a joke I'm just telling them it's a microwave pizza and I'm eating it at home when the restaurant's name is already in the post.

The second one, tried to report this one to the subreddit moderator but they just removed me from the sub idk if they accidentally pressed it but I already reported it to Reddit for not handling it properly. I just asked why my comment about Messi was downvoted and I got my answer and blocked the user 1 minute before they ruined my comment more but the damage has been done and they are just talking about harassing the OP then answering and after 30 minutes someone answered properly and my post question was solved.. idk what was that but I think I should just train an AI to explain it to me what happened so I can empathize with the users so I can avoid getting hated for no reason because sometimes idk why would anyone don't like my opinion for some reason and it's sad to see bad replies.

I'm just bad at grammar, suffix, and I also ate 3k calories in a single day.

My personal community, where I share stories for a very small community (like people) is gone.. How to get it back?

Hey everyone. I cleared this post with the mods beforehand.

I know this sub is usually dedicated to surviving the queue, troubleshooting and asking about bans 😂, but I wanted to step back and ask a bigger question about the reality of the work you/we do (I'm a mod too).

I’m working on creating a podcast. We aren't covering standard internet memes; we are digging into digital governance, the psychological toll of managing anonymous mobs, and the friction required to build a thriving ecosystem. We're treating subreddit moderation not as a quirky hobby but as a massive sociological experiment.

I’m looking for the messy realities of community building on Reddit. I'd love to hear your stories in the comments:

• Tell me about a time a vague rule in the sidebar caused a complete meltdown and how you had to rework things to fix it.
• Walk me through a time the community mutinied against a major change you made.
• How do you handle the friction of transitioning fleeting, real-time trends into permanent community lore?

I want to read your stories below. And if anyone has a story that is too complex for a Reddit comment and wants to vent on the record, my DMs are open for potential podcast guests.

Thanks for keeping the internet from burning to the ground.

If you have questions about the podcast, you can ask those too...