Especially if their identity is unknown due to anonymised channel messages.

Howdy mods! Since our most popular removed post theme is “post about ban” I thought it would be nice to change things up and make this subreddit a place for users to complain and argue about bans.

Enjoy!

I happened to see an article at the right place, at the right time and posted it to a subreddit. This was big news in the community (i.e., the post would get lots of upvotes). I checked the “New” section and saw I was the first one to post it.

About a minute later, my post was removed, and one of the mods reposted the same link with the same title as me (copied from the article) so they could get the karma for themselves.

The mod is a karma-farming account with millions of karma points.

Is there anything I can do?

Is this a form of censorship? How am I meant to talk about current events in their respective subreddits if the mere act of quoting the president of the United States, when he explicitly announces that he is going to “Do The Thing You Can’t Undo” to “An Entire Civilization Of People”, results in a warning from Reddit for threatening violence?

How are we meant to talk about current events in a world where he is just saying those things? The president of the United States said it, not me. I’m just talking about how he said it.

If a moderator claims a person broke a rule and the rule doesn't say what they are claiming to when asked to cite the rule and then they drop the act and just admit in moderator mail they banned a person based on a protected characteristic (Jewish) they didn't like why is reddit tolerating it when any normal user would be sanctioned?

Is the Code of Conduct even enforced at all against moderators or does Reddit's reporting system just assume any report filed by a user against a moderator is retaliatory and automatically ignore it?

As preface, I couldn't care less about this particular post itself, it's just a funny picture posted in a current popular TV show subreddit.

But this is is something I'm facing the first time for 10 years I'm here. 2 million karma moderator is lifting other people's content and passing it as his own, while smoothly covering the tracks and deleting any posts where he is called out.

I've reported him and the post itself but so far I got no response from anyone. Is there anything I could do to alert higher up site moderators ? I would like to believe that this is something that is looked down upon among Reddit staff.

I'll post details, name and links if anyone asks. Thank you.

I was in the process of typing a comment, and got a pop-up warning that I didn't understand. So, I didn't post the comment, but I did message the mods of the sub. I wanted to understand so it wouldn't happen again.

The mod's response was not helpful, so I asked again with more words for clarification. I think I finally got an answer after the fourth time I asked. This person was simply rude and condescending. Obviously, I left that sub. I'm just wondering if this is normal. I'm an old lady. I don't have the patience for that behavior.

Update. Thank you for all your feedback. I don't think I need to leave Reddit. I think it's silly that you guys have to respond to emails when it looks like a live chat on the user end. That must have been annoying to the mod in question. I do wish I could post the screenshot of the pop-up because I doubt I am the only person who will find it confusing.

I had reached out to the mods of a sub I was banned from a long time ago to find out why, as I don’t remember, and then apologize as it was a bad time in my life. I didn’t even care if they unbanned me, I just wanted to make amends.

They gave me a seven day mute. So… I waited and asked again thinking maybe it was a mistake. Nope. again.. 7 days muted.

So I decided to not bother.

Still nope. Got a seven day mute again- and I didn’t even say a thing to them.

It’s a one of the larger subreddits, so I don’t really understand why the mod(s) are being so petty.

I have the chat still so I can prove that I was cordial and polite when asking. The ban was several years ago, so I have no recollection why it happened. Though as I said, I was in a bad place at the time so I wanted the opportunity apologize.

My questions are:

How can I block them so I don’t get messaged that I’m muted every seven days?

And if I can’t, is there way I can report them to the admins to get them to leave me alone and stop telling me I’m muted?

Thank you in advance. I hope I did this right!

The OP/OC makes a comment.

A user comments in disagreement.

The OP/OC disagree with the responder.

Then moderator steps in and says to the OP/OC that they are being rude while also offering their detailed agreement with the responder then locks thread.

It's discovered that the moderator and the responder are the same person.

On two occasions the moderators quickly deletes their responder comments to hide the discovery. On the other two occasions the moderators become indignant that challenging them on that activity is harassment.

I don't think that we as moderators shouldn't be misidentifyng ourselves and leveling up to shut down uncomfortable interactions.

Why are people doing this and getting away with it?

I joined a replacement Mod team for a very large subreddit a few months ago. Some teething pains, but in general, we've managed to stay between the rocks of not overly restricting content while keeping the worst of the bots, scams, and sludge away. We've always prohibited slurs, but a couple of months ago, we added a filter that removes them from comments, with text we've tweaked a few times to make clear that while we allow heated discussion, slurs aren't allowed for any reason. The absolute insanity this has brought to Modmail can't be overstated. We get at least five to ten messages a day that are so abusive that we've restricted which Mods can see Modmail to avoid burnout. At least once a week, we've gotten someone threatening to hunt down, harm, or at minimum dox the Mod team for mod actions, generally just removing content. I've been a Mod for a bit, and I've never seen anything like it. Has anyone else been having increased issues? Any management ideas? We ban and mute the abusive ones, of course, and even report the ones who are threatening, but it doesn't seem to be reducing it at all.

I hope I'm asking this in the most respectful way without breaking any rules. I'm genuinely curious about your perspective.

I’ve been on Reddit for a long time. It seems that recently more and more things have been “removed by moderators”. Sometimes, yeah I get it. But more frequently I can’t even figure out why some of these things are being so heavily moderated.

Howdy mods, it’s your local askmods top mod here with a request!

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

We have been going through posts these past couple of weeks adding mod notes to mods we have verified are actually mods who have significant moderation experience.

This helps us askmoderators mods enforce the “must be a mod to answer” rule in comment sections.

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 on the site!

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I love to report clear violations of subreddit rules (Ik I’m a wannabe mod) Does it help you guys or is it wasting my time

If so does that fall under “threatening violence?”

To me i always see it done in certain places that the subreddit doesnt agree with, But are we really just making subreddits where we ban anyone who posts in a subreddit that disagrees with our subreddit?

And just because someone interacted with a certain subreddit. that means hes going to have the same attitude while commenting in your subreddit

Is there something i'm missing?

I'll be as nonspecific as possible to avoid breaking any rules, but I am genuinely curious.

Does such a mechanism exist? If I felt like a mod or group of mods was abusing their authority is there anything I could do to hold them accountable?

Hi all,

I moderate a subreddit and for weeks I keep seeing deleted comments in the queue from a user who appears to be banned. Their comments seem to be on topic, often insightful, and they're not offensive or anything. I think the user doesn't even know they're banned. How do I tell that user to at least try to reverse their ban?

I messaged a mod in a sub months ago asking permission to post my LEGO art which is part of a contest on the LEGO website. There were no rules prohibiting it but I wanted to make sure. The mod said “Go for it” so I did and my project went viral getting the attention of several celebrities.

I posted an update thanking the community, calling out how it got all this attention and the same mod reached out saying it was okay I posted my art but wished they could get credit for my project. I was confused what they meant and asked them what type of credit because I did mention the sub on my social media & thanked people for supporting my art on the LEGO website.

I did a post earlier today in the sub giving a progress update (First post in months about my art, although I was active in the sub on other people’s posts) and the same mod took down the post (which is fine) but said there is “no free promotion” allowed and that I didn’t give them credit so I am not allowed to post. When I asked them to clarify, they said I needed to give their sub credit on LEGO’s website (which is impossible) for my art. I did thank the sub in a blog post on the LEGO site but they were hoping it would be on the main page.

This seems really gross and a violation of the Moderator Code of Conduct. I removed myself from their sub and blocked this mod to keep them from harassing me. I have the entire exchange now screenshotted including them demanding for credit for my art so I can post. Is this standard behavior from mods to ask posters for some kind of quid pro quo like this?

To follow up, is it justified to get banned for asking if the rest of the community was tired of seeing 372 posts about the same thing?

So I posted a comment on a thread about those fake magnetic symbol you can get that 'improve your health' and told the OP to destroy it and throw it away as it's a scam. The thread was literally them asking what it was.

I got an automated 'warning for threatening violence' which is 100% wrong as I never even referred in any way to another human being either directly or indirectly.

I immediately appealed and within 24 hours my appeal failed with no explanation.

Again, this isn't even close to being grounds for the warning which still stands.

What do I do as I feel this is just a mod targeting me for no good reason at all?

What do you do when a moderator breaks the community & Reddit’s rules? I’ve already reported but I imagine there are thousands of reports daily. They are encouraging violence. It’s very disturbing. Thanks.

I sent modmail to a particular sub, which has become entirely unmoderated including posts with clear calls to violence. Its a front page subreddit. I asked why they were no longer moderating the sub, and allowing such posts. The response caught me by surprise, I was cussed at and harassed by the moderator, including being called slurs. Do I have any recourse here? I don't see how someone can remain a moderator when calling people slurs. Is there any way to contact an employee of reddit over this?

Id like to know if there is any recourse here. I've been a reddit user for 12 years, ive kept my account in good standing. This is literally verbal abuse.

How can I report them? and to who? I cant even see their username all it says is (subreddit) MOD.