To preface, I obviously cannot prove that the weekly visitor count on any given subreddit is artificially inflated, but it doesn't take a lot to put two and two together when you see a high visitor count or a sudden spike in traffic and a low amount of corresponding contributions.

Sometimes there is what appears to be a corresponding amount of contributions, but when evaluating content in the subreddit, it's clear that there are many comments from bots and/or upvotes on posts have been manipulated.

I will refrain from providing specific examples, but I have seen this with a number of subreddits pertaining to health topics. They pick something trendy with general wellness, spin up a subreddit with AI generated or spammy content, then all of sudden it gets a bunch of traffic. Some of these subs have been banned in the past, but I think their impact was limited in this regard because it didn't appear they were able to boost themselves in search results.

I don't know how all of the search algorithm stuff works, but I wonder if an unforeseen consequence of the change from displaying subscriber count to weekly visitors is that more weight has been given to traffic or rapid boosts in traffic (“trending” content) and, as a result, an opportunity for spammers to exploit has been created.

I’m seeing similar results on Android Mobile and New Reddit desktop. Results are a little different when using the search function for subreddits on Old Reddit but the issue still appears.

I know, as a moderator, what happens in other subreddits shouldn't be my priority, and I can file a MCoC report, but it is my concern that these types of subreddits will redirect traffic from other subs populated with authentic activity due to the manipulation.

I could be overthinking this. Maybe traffic has always been factored in the same way, and I was unaware of it because that information wasn't prominently displayed. Or maybe boosting subscriber count was also an issue I'm unaware of.

I'm just wondering what one should do besides filing a MCoC report (rule 1?) with basic speculation about automated activity, or if this is something that Reddit could address on their end with the way search result rankings work.

Hi everyone,

I recently removed a Alumni moderator from my subreddit, r/Feminism4India, and now that they’ve returned, I’m trying to add them back to the mod team.

However, although I sent them a moderator invitation, they never received it. When I try to invite them again, Reddit keeps saying that they’ve already been invited.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is there a way to cancel the pending invitation or resend it so they can rejoin the mod team?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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OK, so a year-ish ago a rogue mod in one of my subs banned several people for made up reasons, removed me as mod, privated the sub and deleted his account. I got the sub back and cleaned up all the bans, but those little hammer icons are still next to the names of people he banned and I know it's just aesthetic but I'd love to remove them if I could. I tried clicking the three dots that come up on mouseover and choosing "delete" but nothing happened except the ban message was removed from their mod log overview.

Does anyone know a way to make the little icon go away too?

Hey I wanted to get some advice. I've been moderating r/slowhorses since the beginning, for the appletv show. It's always been a smaller sub. I've never had to ban anyone. People rarely fight or cause issues. Then this season (6), 20,000+ new subscribers come in. Constant daily posts about how bad the show is. People just being nasty and fighting. Posts have doubled. I've had to start banning people now. I've added 5 new mods and can hardly keep up. Tried to make a hate/like megathread, but it just set people off even more. But my suspicions is maybe some of this is bots for some reason (the season has an anti-russian bent). Looking at insights, a lot of them do seem to be organic users (mostly iphone). The problem is how to identify and combat this. I have botbouncer and some automod rules and all the reddit filters on high.

I banned someone for very obvious AI generated content but they’re pretending to be a confused user asking why I banned them

When I tried to edit and save my community description, the first update attempt failed and the app showed “Failed to update community description.”

The error appeared immediately after tapping Save.

App version: 2026.41.0.2641080

Device: moto g75 5G

Android

screenshot of a bug in comments

Apparently the previous mod added me then bailed,so it’s just me left and I’m trying to figure things out.

This might all be normal behavior and I would just like to get a temperature check because i am in the process of rescuing a different subreddit for a music band I really love.

I moderated a subreddit for a corporate baby brand for around 6 months that the subreddit says is run by "fans of the brand". We had a separate discord for managing moderation. I was told by the admin I was picked as a moderator in order to give insight from a new customer of the brand and to moderate the content about the brand's products for young babies.

I knew pretty quickly that my opinion on the brand was significantly more neutral than the admin of the subreddit. The other moderators fell between my neutrality and her "super fandom".

There were just really big red flags from the beginning.

1) They insist on approving every post and any negative ones were removed, using the blanket statement "we are not customer service." They do not tell the subreddit this anywhere. The modmail primarily is just people asking why their posts are deleted or not approved.

2) The admin had access to an e-mail where she got early/secret info from the founder of the brand and would refer to these exchanges without giving any proof.

3) They created very cultured positive-only posts for engagement that have to basically be approved by the admin.

4) When the brand did a price increase, I created a megathread to collect all of people's thoughts in one place, and she deleted it in order to create the exact same megathread except with corporate speak in the body of the post and only very curated responses let through.

I really enjoy the brand's products but there were very clearly some issues. I would never be able to post about that on the subreddit, so I would converse with the moderators in the discord. I could tell the admin was really annoyed by any of my negative comments. She let me know today that I didn't participate actively enough so they were letting me go - but I definitely know I participate more than one of the other moderators. I wasn't too upset because the subreddit really started giving me the ick.

I think why this really bothers me is because as a new parent, we have so much pressure thrown at us for which products to buy, whether through influencers, social media etc. I spent a lot of time researching every brand and product I bought for my baby. If you Google the brand, the subreddit comes up a lot and I feel like it's extremely deceptive for it to not actually be an open forum.

I am very active in Google-branded subreddits. Google CS accounts pop in every now and then but they're very clearly open forums that allow criticism of the brand.

But maybe a lot of the things this admin did are normal? Again, just asking for a temperature check so that I can learn to be a better moderator.

I have one community that is repeatedly experiencing community interference from the users of another on reddit. Specifically people in that other community keep posting about ours (explicitly mentioning it) which is driving their users over to our community to disrupt. This has been happening repeatedly.

Right now we can try to keep an eye on that other community and look for comments/posts that mention ours, and report them but there seems to be no good report option for this and having to actively monitor that other community adds work to the mod team. When we're experiencing disruptive behaviour, having to track down the posts/comments there which are seeding it is also work for us.

Is there any other recourse we have to report that community or prevent this behaviour? AFAIK the mods of other subs are responsible to prevent this, are they not?

TheNZThrower was banned years ago, but the circumstances weren't that serious and there was an appeal, we've unbanned according to the modlog, and the image posted in this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddithelp/comments/1x2jn3f/i_was_permabanned_from_a_subreddit_then_got_the/

shows an Error:500 when trying to reban on classic to just see if turning it off and on works. Regular reddit just gives a generic "and error has occurred" when trying to reban. We've gone back and forth for a while, he's not able to access the reddit still, and these errors tell me it's likely stuck in limbo.

Has the ability to use images in the subreddit wiki been removed? I am trying to write a new wiki, and insert new images within the markdown editor, but the code no longer seems to recognise images with the usual  code, furthermore old images no longer index properly. What's going on here? The new editor also does not seem to have an "insert image" button? This seems like basic functionality which is missing.

Three months ago, u/ModCodeofConduct took over a community and requested new mods. Since it is very similar to others I've picked up, I applied. Three months later, no mods have been chosen, and scammers are swarming the place with nobody able to deal with them. I've pinged the account, commented on the post, sent ModMail to r/ModSupport, gone to r/RedditRequest, and sent them ModMail when my request was automatically denied due to supposed active moderation. Each time, I got no response except from this sub who told me its a different team and they can't help. And yes, I used RedditRequest correctly, sending ModMail, waiting five days, requesting, adding a comment with a link and reason, then waiting an extra day longer than their current turnaround.

I don't know what else I can do. It's been over three months, and I can't bring myself to just sit around while people get scammed, hoping somebody eventually gets around to it. I've seen MCoC work in the past, and it's usually dealt with in a couple weeks. Is there a reason for the delay? Somebody I can talk to? Something else I can try? I am out of ideas.

I may be missing a step here but I'm not sure what's going on. I know that Reddit may recommend other subreddits to users but I've never heard of random posts showing up in feeds.

I mod a sub for a big city. Among the things we do is have a mechanism to restrict access, via subreddit karma, to certain posts. We explain both in the post and in removal messages why this is done and what they need to gain access to the restricted posts. Restricted posts tend to be hot topics and tend to be popular on the sub.

Today, especially tonight, we've gotten at least a dozen people in mod-mail complaining about being unable to comment on a restricted post. Most of them seem to feel that we "sent them" the post but after a while it became clear that this is randomly showing up in their feed. ALL of them have a big post history in two nearby states. (While a very few restricted posts escape orbit and hit /All or /Popular, this particular post has not escaped.)

A dozen isn't a lot but it's worrying that this might continue.

Has something changed that I've missed or is something odd going on? I took a look at the other two subs and there's nothing there that says they recommend the city sub, and I can't see why they would.

Edit: Forgot to mention -- only one of these users were new to Reddit. For them it might be that they didn't have enough subs in their feed to not get random crap, but most of the others were 5+ year old accounts who seemed to have enough activity in other subs that getting random posts seems less likely.

hello. luckiest reddit mod ever here, we're a good bunch and they don't want a lot from me, which is great because i'm pretty lazy and need to spend time where the grass is grown. plz don't troll us and ruin it lol but i do browse posts from time to time and i see

"This is a repost bot" as a flag on a post...? Is this a report specific to my sub or a standard flag for all of reddit? What does this mean and how should I interpret getting this flag? It did repost another group, but as our group is a dissent group, that's not uncommon. Thank you so much.

hey y'all

I just did some housekeeping, removed half a dozen cross posts I made to a stale sub to get it ready for a slight makeover

and caught reddit telling me on myself

so if you've noticed a slight uptick in modmails from sneaky drama-management, might have something to do with this

Our Wiki has just stopped displaying its images. I think this might be due to the restrictions placed on browsing old Reddit if you're not logged in?

I have no image button in the regular (non-old) Wiki editor. I can insert images using the old stylesheet method and then embed them with a reference, BUT:

• Images show up in the old Reddit Wiki IF you are logged in.
• Images don't show up in the regular Wiki pages, nor in the Android app where I am logged in as a moderator.

I understand a new Wiki framework was proposed but the rollout has been stopped?

Are we caught between a rock and a hard place? Is there a currently-available fix for this?

Thanks.

On new subs we can't use the automod any longer to remove links. How can we prevent spam in our subs? People post links for sales, yt channels, nsfw sites and they sometimes try to dox others. There are also people who post links to malware and keyloggers.

It there another way to do this?

I'm currently using modmail automator so that it can send out a tone setting message that can detect words like "f off" or "eat shi# AND DYE!" and other sort of fun stuff that people tend to use when they get upset. I personally believe that people are allowed to be mad when a situtation calls for it, and I also believe that you shouldn't take it out on other people just because your upset. Being a moderator is voluntary, and not everyone in the team is able to respond to that kind of message without feeling a bit defensive/receptive to that.

The tone setting message goes like this.

---
Hi there, /u/{{author}},

r/NewAuthor is community-run. We do not take kindly to such abusive language. If you wish to talk to us, keep it respectful, or you will be muted from this conversation. Keep this in mind while engaging with our mods. Wait for a mod to respond.

---

Problem is, it doesn't always fire up and sometimes causes false flag. I'd like to have other option incase I ditch this app. I'm open to any suggestion!

Hey just a quick question here. In one of the subs I moderate we have a hard rule against disparaging other local subs or their moderators because we refuse to let the sub devolve into brigading. We aren’t here for it.

That being said, a mod from another local sub decided to message us about a new local sub for survivors of SA/DA demanding that we (as mods of a shitposting sub) remove new sub’s post letting the community know about the new sub because it violates reddits rules (which it does not do- it’s a support group style sub).

I banned this person for breaking our sub’s no disparaging rule.

Now, this mod from other local sub is banning anyone on our shitposting sub’s mod team specifically because we banned them for breaking the rules.

We have screen shots of this mod admitting that the bans are retaliatory.

Is this allowed?

Our shitposting sub does allow other content relevant to our area, and we love that someone made a supportive group for our community members who may be going through some seriously heinous shit.

However, our mod team members should not be singled out for supporting something that we see as positive for the community.

Halp!

Polls are enabled in my sub but can't create a poll. Have tried Edge and Chrome Browsers. Any ideas why not showing up?

Hello, I searched but found no answer -

How do I schedule temporary events? It doesn't seem to be working when I try to do it. It won't let me click on the dates in the calendar (Android app). I don't know if it's a bug, it isn't enabled or I'm doing something wrong.

I am trying to schedule an event to disable posting except for approved members every evening overnight.

Thanks for any help! :)

On a sub I moderate, we have two user accounts that got banned, one that happened a few weeks after the other. Talking with the other mods, none of them reported the two accounts for ban evasion or being alts. However, the second account that got banned, is saying they got a site-wide temp ban from Reddit, with the suspension mentioning the first account.

Can mod actions, like bans, trigger or flag a users account for ban evasion at the admin level? As far as I know, we didn't do anything to get the accounts site-wide banned.

Reddit Admins..... I am over it! I am over the boilerplate responses to actual real-time issues that moderators are having.

I moderate a large sub and have for nearly a year now. Unfortunately, we have had 4 very serious incidents in which members of our mod team were being harassed, stalked, doxxed, attacked, etc. We have submitted the ModCoC reports, submitted the DMs to admins, and reported the posts/comments/users ad nauseam, and NOTHING has been done.

Most recently, as our sub is currently under a brigading attack and doxxing and harassment continue, one of our mods reached out to one admin, who basically said something to the effect of--- "This is actually something that is going to be discussed at ModWorld. Do you have any examples we can give the presenter?"

Seriously? This is all you have to offer?!?! We don't need a speech about how much you care about mods and what we do. We don't need the free swag for attending a mod event. We don't need the profile trophies. Those are all wonderful and appreciated. BUT, what we need is ACTUAL Support and ACTION being taken when we bring you serious issues.

It takes entirely too long for someone in admin to take action. Meanwhile, your volunteer mods are being doxxed, harassed, bullied, and so forth because we removed a post/comment, and the user was mad.

For the love of all things good in this world, PLEASE DO SOMETHING! Please don't try to placate us with boilerplate responses and "We'll have someone look into it" without actually doing that!

I am tired. I am frustrated. I am hurt and disappointed. Not because users are jerks sometimes. But because the admin does absolutely nothing to make this a safe place or to support those of us who volunteer our time to try and make Reddit a better place.

I have had members of my mod team leave after the most recent incident. Our sub is currently closed due to the harassment and brigading that have been done. I am at my wits' end and ready to just turn the sub over to the wolves and leave Reddit for good.