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Banning and muting

I've been permanently banned from a few subs in my day, I first get a... you're banned.... messege, that says please contact us to talk about this, then immediately receive a permanent muted from responding. This has occurred with every ban I've received.... is this against reddit rules for mods?

If we ban people from our subs, can we immediately mute them so they can't respond? Or will we be breaking a reddit mod rule? 🤔

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u/Designer-Bid-3155 — 22 hours ago
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Question about doxxing

Is it okay for members to post faces and/or plate numbers of vehicles on reddit (except of course, some famous people) or not? I don't know what constitutes doxxing or not.

My current rule is do not post where faces and plate numbers are visible. I only allow those public figures and/or their faces they recorded on a camera.

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u/surewhynotdammit — 1 day ago
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are there any good subs to learn the ropes of moderation?

i have been wanting to be a mod for a long while and have sent out plenty of applications and inquiries, however i have had no such luck. i believe that is due to my lack of experience. i am a fast learner and very much willing to learn, so if any subs require some assistance or are willing to help, please come my way lol!

also i am already on r/needamod

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u/Pug_hammy — 1 day ago
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Its taken a while....

But don't give up, I got into this Sub at about 40k members, Ive not done anything special or out of the ordinary,...subject is music marketing

u/Desperate_Yam_495 — 1 day ago
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Solo mod on a 14K member sub pulling 750K monthly views. Just rebuilt everything. Am I doing this right?

I moderate a community that blew up faster than I expected. 751K views last month. 44K weekly visitors. 14.2K members and growing by 3.5K in the last 30 days. Some posts hitting 100K+ views on their own.

Until this week I was doing everything manually. Every spam removal, every flair assignment, every modmail argument about why something got taken down. 226 posts removed and 324 comments removed last month. All by hand.

I just overhauled everything and I genuinely want to know if I'm on the right track or making mistakes I can't see yet.

Here's what I changed.

Rewrote the rules from 15 generic template rules down to 10 specific ones. The biggest addition was a vendor wall: "If you sell what people here need, you are a vendor, not a member." Is this too aggressive? It handles the freelancers posting service ads and agencies fishing for clients but I worry it scares off legitimate contributors.

Installed Read The Rules and set it to auto-assign "I AM A NOOB" as user flair until they change it to their actual role. Thought it was funny and effective but is it going to annoy people more than motivate them?

Installed Bot Bouncer, Evasion Guard, and SpamBuster on top of that. Am I stacking too many apps? Do any of these conflict with each other?

Made a deliberate choice to protect arguments in the rules. "Argue all you want. Disagree with any post including the moderator's. That is welcome here." Only threats and personal attacks get removed. The idea is that disagreements drive engagement which drives reach. But without a blanket "be respectful" rule am I opening the door to something I'll regret?

No exemptions on Read The Rules. Every single person reads the rules before participating. Zero exceptions.

For anyone who has modded a sub past 10K members, what am I missing? What breaks at scale that I can't see from here?

u/princedxbian — 1 day ago
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New Mod Intros 🎉 | Weekly Thread

Congrats on becoming a new moderator. Every community on Reddit started exactly where you are today: with a party of one.

The community-building journey might feel a little lonely and that's what r/NewMods is for. Here you'll find and connect with other mods who are on the same journey you are.

So, introduce the community you created. Maybe share a little bit about why you created it. And, while you're at it - say hello to your other mods!

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u/curioustomato_ — 2 days ago
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Have you seen this before?

We have a repeating pattern. The user registers a new account and posts a sort of promotion/ad (trying to find the boundaries?). The only place they ever post is this sub. We remove it and ban the user, and they never even post anywhere else on Reddit, just stop posting completely. We feel targeted. It happened twice 2 weeks ago, and twice this weekend. What could this be about? We have Evasion Guard installed.

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u/InBetweenLili — 3 days ago
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I became a mod 2.5 months ago, I just hit 500 members yesterday.

It's honestly going better than expected. I thought it would be harder to grow my community because, it is about an athlete, and I essentially missed the big event in the Winter Olympics by becoming a mod right after and missed out on all the free promo the event brought.

What worked for me is posting at least once day, posting varied content (press articles, statistics, highlights, fun videos, interviews) and crossposting in bigger subs. I haven't really invited anyone personally but these 3 things really worked for me. I also try to respond to most comments and I added a lot of user flairs which is think is fun

u/FrenchPagan — 3 days ago
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Anybody need a rookie mod?

I really wanna get involved and see how I do with modding, I'll be glad to help moderate a server :)!

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u/ghostmfk — 3 days ago
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is there any way to stop reddit from automatically removing comments? I have all the "safety filters" disabled but it still happens. many legitimate comments have been automatically removed

u/reddit33450 — 3 days ago
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Help me out

I cr eated a subreddit which is supposed to be a football community in our region.

For help in this moderating thing, I posted about it in some other local subreddits too. So some are asking if they could become the mod. Can that badly affect the subreddit or is that good?

The thing is I've got no clue on this. So please help me!!

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u/alanjithhh — 3 days ago
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I’m dealing with harassment on Reddit in my Reddit thread sub Reddit,

We >!ban!< a person from posting in my sub Reddit when they’re not subscribed or they didn’t join

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u/thenocturnal_gamer — 3 days ago
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new here need help

Hi I'm new to this and have started my own community and I'm just wondering how to do everything basically 😅

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u/ModernMinds0 — 3 days ago
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I can’t schedule a post with an image

I want to schedule some content for my subreddit, but it seems that you can’t schedule post with an image. Is there any way to do it or just it can’t be done?

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u/CarlosEstevez_ — 3 days ago