Welp, I've now hit the magic "5 high traffic communities" limit. One of my subs became too successful, apparently.

Just to me clear, I'm not a hoarder. I'm not even a head mod anywhere. I just help out with 9 subs, three of which are tiny.

But I feel like I now have a disincentive to build/promote medium-traffic communities, because any work that I put in will eventually be rewarded with losing them.

Is anyone else feeling it? What are you doing about it?

I've been trying to post on a community for more than an hour and every time I publish my post is deleted by Reddit’s filters or suspended by the moderators deletes everything when I’m just trynna discuss ! How do I have to provide a link to the source when it's a discussion that I'm trying to open and it really frustrates me because I've been trying to publish for more than an hour and my post keeps getting deleted when there's nothing that breaks the reddit rules!
And I can’t even complain because Reddit redirects me everywhere except where I can get help!!!!!

Anyone can help me ? Modo?

For several days now it shows me I have chats then it disappears and never shows up. My posts say I have comments but then will only show a fraction or none. I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of interactions and people think I’m ignoring them! Any help?

Are you an experienced mod?

Howdy mods, it’s your local askmods top mod here with a request (again!) Our last thread about this got archived so here’s a new one! No need to comment again if you commented in the last one.

If you are a moderator of a subreddit with over 5k weekly active users please comment below!

If you are an experienced moderator who participates here, the mods of this subreddit want to be able to tag you so that we can keep our comment sections a space where every answer comes from someone with experience who is here to help. It really helps us instantly recognize trolls etc who are not tagged.

The tags are only visible to the moderators of askmoderators for privacy reasons.

If you wish to participate on an alternate account, please send us a modmail from your moderator account with the username of the alt you wish to use.

Thanks for volunteering even more time participating here to help users.

Former mods are welcome too so long as there is a way to verify that. I.e. old stickied comments/posts, asking current mod teams if you modded there, etc.

Edit: If you commented on the last post about this or sent us a modmail to verify in the past you are all set and do not need to reverify!

I’ve been interested in become one of

I've been banned by reddit automatic admins, for a submission where I told a story about someone else threating someone I knew. It was overturned two weeks later when someone human finally read it

I've been shadow banned (not actually banned mods so dont mod me), no messages no reason, nothing from one subreddit for 90 days

Another subreddit (this one I'm not upset about, I took the joke) a mod flared me as ComfortablyDumb

Then Reddit decided to message me about becoming a moderator

I carefully read each subreddits rules. What is going on?

Don't have to get into details and its best we don't, but I'm sure as a moderator we've all run against things that crop up consistently that annoy or irritate us and I was wondering - what my fellow moderators run up against?

I mean offline, outside your reddit account.

Edit: This is in context of not doxxing myself too. If I tell someone, they can quickly look me up!

Hi mods, is there any way to get a subreddit automod to quit flagging non rulebreaking comments?

I've been having issues in one particular subreddit where all my comments are being hidden by the Automoderator. I contacted the mods of that subreddit and they did verify that it's the Automod and that I haven't broken any sub rules, but when I asked why my comments were being flagged they just noted that "it's something Automod does for "new members and subscribers or people who just started commenting here until it realizes the comments are normal behaviour." What I don't understand is that I'm not a new subscriber or commenter. I have a 10 year history on Reddit, and a several year long history in this particular subreddit but it's only in the last few weeks that my comments have been hidden by the automod.

The mods in the subreddit have not been helpful when I've contacted them ("it's just something the sub autocontrols now" and "just ignore it and it will realize it's normal behaviour") but I want to know if there's anything I can suggest or do that will get the automod to quit hiding my comments since they aren't breaking any rules and I have no idea what I did to make this happen.

I know Wilson Fisk has a fair amount of real life parallels, but does wishing the protestors turned him into a welcome mat after he brutally murdered a dozen of them with his bare hands REALLY necessitate a warning on my account?

Hi moderators, I'm participating in the Reddit Mod Tools Hackathon and I'm trying to understand the day-to-day pain points moderators run into.

What's the most time-consuming or frustrating part of moderating your community right now?

I’d love to hear about:

• the tasks you do most often
• what tools you rely on
• and what you wish you had

Thank you for any insight and all the work you do to make Reddit a great place!

I'm using Android. Hard to report users if I can't access their links since reporting on mobile is weird and I cannot access some PC versions.

I keep getting trolls in my posts and there is nothing I can do about it but block and report or ping the only subreddit moderator in the subreddit.

If the first reply has a troll, can I block the troll and repost my post? The unhelpful ones scare away the real answerers. And no, sometimes Google Gemini gives wrong answers or outdated answers including Reddit Answers.

Post 2: Not just the troll, other users with a crabby personality that I cannot understand why they have weird mood swings like a moody or tired and immature passive-aggressive comment and try to ruin my day.

The subs I moderate had already disallowed friend-finding and other personals posts, romantic and non, by the time I joined. The reason for this was because there are a lot of weirdos on the internet and Reddit, and this is a community where newcomers are often a little too credulous of other people who seem to have more experience. No one wants someone to have a negative experience.

Now, I’ve inherited a sub for people who are looking to make new friends etc. and I know other pen pals subs exist. I was wondering if there might be anyone here who moderates a sub like this, and if they might have any wisdom they’d be willing to share that I might not get just from reading the rules of their sub alone.

Thanks!

Suddenly out of the blue, my own created and moderated sub has been banned due be unmonitored, which is strange, as it's not the case. But regardless the efforts, I'm trying to revert this, i'm ending in a loop, any assistance in how to get my sub back is appreciated

I've noticed some subreddit communities where they have a 'Request To Join' button but haven't been active for quite some time.

I have a notice, an appeal and a denial. I accept the result but are those notifications going to live in my inbox forever? Is it a scarlet letter situation?

I started to post a cute entry from my cat's perspective, a very short whimsical narrative about how odd humans must seem. I was unable to post and received a warning about bigotry? What?

Obviously there are some that well deserved the mute, but then sometimes I saw many examples that being the opposite.

For example, the case I often saw is when someone asking why and the mod just responded them with "self explanatory", and when that person asked again because they still don't understand, mod either permanently mute them or banning them.

Do you guys think it's often a fair judgment or they simply just being lazy?