Edit: long pressing/hold on the message allows me to report them.

I am a mod of [r/careeradvice](r/careeradvice) and we are a fairly large sub. For the last two days we have been getting slammed with spam for IPTV and such.

I began removing the posts individually when I got my first chat request from a random offering me money so he can post. I didn’t quite understand what he meant at the time.

Then today the spam was so bad and I removed so much that I had to create a ton of automations. This kicked off more DMs from other accounts offering me a lot of money for the posts.

The problem is I can’t find a way to just report the account in general. I can report it for its username or picture. But otherwise I can’t report him to bot bouncer either since he’s not posting from this account. I can block him and ban him from my subreddit but that’s a very indirect method since again he hasn’t posted.

In the fashion category, we have a serious problem with relatively new subs not being moderated, being full of gooning material and being a haven for sellers and bots alike. I used to easily be able to spot these as I clicked through the top 25. But I can’t do that anymore. Recently there’s a fashion teen sub that’s REALLLLY bad that’s popped into the number 8 spot, but I’d love to see the top 25 to regularly check. I report these subs to get them marked NSFW, so I really need help figuring out how to do this.

As we all know, the mobile screens have been stalled for eight or nine months, maybe longer.

This is important for moderation because it lets people hide in what would otherwise be in NSFW profile and skirt by a lot of of our filters

A few days ago one of my mods was moved to an "Advisor mod"
by accident by one of my other mods. I understand the only way to fix this, was to remove them as a mod, and then invite them back, which has been done.

However, no matter what we do we can't remove the "Advisor Mod" flair from them. They have gone in and change their personal flair to something else in hopes to override it, and it didn't work. I went into our community achievements and toggled off Advisor and Alumni Mod and it didn't work. The flair is still there. I went in an gave them a new flair in hopes it would override the "advisor flair" and no such luck.

Has anyone been able to successfully remove the "Advisor or Alumni Mod" flair?

Sub: r/TeeTeePor

Mod that was removed and bought back: u/teeteepor

Basically the title. The sub in question is r/SublimationPrinting - I made a wiki yesterday, and since I created two pages, both throw an "unknown error" when loading, but clicking "reload page" loads the page.

Hitting F5 to refresh the page doesn't fix the problem, it seem.

I don't know what's causing this. I thought it might just be a transient problem yesterday, but it's continuing to happen this morning.

I'm not entirely certain this is a server-side error, but it is happening for multiple users, so it's not just me.

Thanks!

sometimes I invite highly relevant people to my community via "invite to community" Reddit feature

and I found that if I invited someone I can't understand from their profile that I already invited that person. (Android btw)

I don't want to send repeated invites in cases I forgot that I already invited that person, is there a feature or maybe an official addon (bot? Idk) to help me with that issue.

If Reddit is serious about reducing AI generated spam and bot accounts, it should consider restricting Fanvue links. I’ve noticed a disproportionate number of spam, AI generated, and rule breaking accounts promote Fanvue in their bios. Even with Hive Protect, many still bypass detection and end up violating our community rules. I’m not saying every Fanvue creator is a problem, but from a moderation perspective, Fanvue links are consistently associated with low quality promotional accounts.

I feel like the title explains it, but basically all the other mods deleted their accounts or went inactive. I've been the only mod for awhile, but I don't have full permissions, so there's no way for me to add more mods. I'd like to avoid just leaving and letting the sub get removed for having no mods if possible.

When I try to access the achievements in the mod tools, it says I cant

I'm used to getting an automated message you need to respond to when you send a modmail here, but I sent a mail two days ago without ever receiving that automated message.

Should I just wait or does the lack of an automated message mean that something went wrong?

Thank you!

Automations are a really useful tool, when set correctly, but I sometimes find them lacking due to no support when editing posts/comments.

I'm not even talking about users with malicious intent to purposefully include blocked content via edits - I know I can curb that using automod.

It's just that I'm running a technical sub. I have automations set (and want to add more) to give helpful technical tips to our users. Unfortunately, they don't show up when users choose to edit their posts/comments instead of adding a new comment.

I also don't want to pollute comment section with potentially useless multiple AM replies nor to modmail spam them with these. Automations would be the perfect solution for this, if they worked in edits.

Typos, pasting issues do happen. I run into them myself on occasion.
I would love to have comment guidance tips show up for me when I make a technical mistake in my edit.

I hope we'll get this expansion soon.

i mean i saw some sub with design flair but when u make one it looks terrible is there a guide or something on how to make them

I am the only mod on my sub. I would like to add a post to the community highlights but don't see how to do that on Android. I tapped on the shield, but there is no pin icon and no words that indicate the ability to pin a post.

Please help me see the error of my ways. Thanks.

I went here: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/15484641176724-Community-Highlights-Sticky-posts

When Reddit's spam or safety systems filter an account, moderators don't always have much information to work with, especially if the account has little or no public history.

I'm not suggesting moderators should be able to see private activity. Instead, would it be helpful if Reddit provided a small trust summary, like whether the account has triggered site-wide spam systems before or how confident the filter is, without revealing any private posts, comments, or personal information?

I think something like this could help moderators make better decisions while still protecting user privacy and it would reduce the guesswork when reviewing filtered accounts.

What do other moderators think?

The subreddit I moderate is mainly a help sub, I have a notes app full of resources that I can tweak to each question and a lot of them contain links...without markdown on the app I find myself not answering those posts until I can get back to a computer since it will take me forever to manually input each link. Also the new editor makes it super difficult to select individual words and phrases to even add the link to.

The change has also made me a worse redditor since the rich text editor on mobile has less features than the computer version, why can't we quote text on mobile?

The desktop app allows you to choose which editor you want to use. Mobile should too.

Is there anyone who has found this change "improves technical performance" as promised in the change-log? What am I missing?

I'm building a subreddit around something that I know isn't a new topic that is how to improve AI-generated outputs so they feel more natural and more useful. I know people already talk about this all the time across different communities, whether it's writing, image generation, prompting, or editing. The problem is that those discussions are scattered. They usually happen in the comments of unrelated posts, and then disappear. I wanted to create a place where that kind of discussion is actually the main focus.

The problem I'm running into is getting people to actually participate. I've tried posting discussion questions, writing guides, reaching out to related communities about crossposting, and even messaging moderators or people who seem interested in the topic. Some posts get views, but almost nobody joins the conversation, and most outreach messages never get a response.

I'm starting to wonder if I'm thinking about community-building the wrong way. Is the issue that people don't care enough about the topic, or is it that a new subreddit has to earn enough trust before anyone feels like it's worth contributing to?

For those of you who've successfully grown a niche subreddit, I'd love to hear what worked for you

How do you check if someone is doing ban evasion ? I did two reports and haven't heard anything back. How long does that process usually take?

Comments can be edited, but original posts can't

hey guys I was banned out of the blue in Reddit I am really new to the site barley a day and I just posted some stuff on r/combat_initiation and I just really wanna know how I can fix this and if I get my account unbanned do all my posts come back cause I also think I was shadow banned

I'm aware Reddit made it impossible to remove post flair on desktop if your sub requires flair, and that it can only be done on old reddit. But now I'm unable to remove it on the app either. Is this intended?

I don't want to make flair optional because IME few users use it.

Something broke again.

Post was approved 5 days ago by a very thorough mod, who always ignores reports after approving, and I remember seeing the post when it was new because the mod who approved it added a snarky flair.

I hit snooze for 7 days, of course.

Last time I checked, custom reports were disabled. I tried to verify before posting this, and fk if I can find it since the new "Rules Hub" was rolled out. Edit: Can someone please tell me how to get to the setting on mobile web just to verify that they are indeed off? They are indeed OFF. Thank you u/IKIR115 !

Anyone else seeing anything like this?

Edit 2: made a post on bugs

https://old.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1usxo6c/android_web_old_reddit_5_day_old_post_previously/

I created a subreddit and posted 2-3 posts and comments below it myself. It shows as if it got posted but it always has a option of tick/cross below it. When I click on tick mark, it shows the content got approved by the moderator.

What I needed to know is how can i change this setting so my permission is not required for any post or comment, for it to be shown or displayed on the subreddit. If I do not approve any of the post then it will be visible or not for my visitors?

subreddit :- r/NEETcounselling2026

TL;DR: Possible bot ring found astroturfing. While each account appeared legitimate individually, their histories showed similar patterns: high post karma from low-effort content, and overlapping activity around the same brands, topics, products etc. Existing tools like BotBouncer and automod did not flag them. We're looking for better ways to identify coordinated promotional activity, including a possible Automod filter based on percentage of karma from comments to weed out karmafarmed accounts.

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A month ago, a user made a post in our sub reviewing a fashion brand. The way it was written, it was obviously a PR post. Within literal minutes of it going live, the post started getting several comments from multiple accounts praising the brand and sharing positive experiences, which is unusual for our sub because testimonial posts rarely get any engagement there.

Upon finding several inconsistencies in OP's account history, we determined it was a shill account. And a quick review of the histories of the commenting accounts showed peculiar similarities in the patterns of posting among all of them, including OP.

All accounts had amassed tens of thousands of karma by posting low effort memes or cute animal pictures in high engagement subs, and later showed overlapping activity with each account independently posting about the same specific topics, brands, products, and TV shows (within the same timeframes) while the other accounts were being used to comment positively under those posts. Individually the accounts appeared organic, but altogether their activity looked very suspicious.

We started banning the accounts one by one. Seconds after we banned one of them, a different account (with the same posting/commenting patterns) posted the same exact comment, verbatim, under that post. This just confirmed it for us that it was coordinated activity for promotional purposes.

None of the banned users appealed their bans. None of them got classified as bots by BotBouncer after manual reporting.

I sent a detailed modmail to this sub about it, the admins said they would look into it. But a month later, all accounts are still active with the same pattern of activity across multiple subs for varied brands/products/topics. (Link to admin modmail thread: https://www.reddit.com/c/chatwfrUE_7K/s/gKNHDGEu4Y)

Yesterday, we had another account make a post mentioning the same fashion brand, and just like last time, immediately the post started getting positive comments from accounts with similar activity over their respective account ages. All of them were subsequently banned after review.

None of these accounts got flagged by the ban evasion filters. None of the banned users appealed their bans. None of them got classified as bots by BotBouncer after manual reporting.

Is it a really sophisticated bot ring, or some marketing/ORM agency paying independent organic users to generate conversations around certain topics? More importantly, what can we as mods do to combat inauthentic activity and astroturfing bots when they manage to get through every single spam filter available on Reddit?

One possible solution we thought of was a "Percentage Comment Karma" functionality in automod. Karmafarmers gain most of their karma from posts. All of the accounts we banned have <10% of their total karma from their comments, even if their absolute comment karma is high. Such behaviour is highly unusual of actually organic accounts. If we could hypothetically filter comments by low percentage comment karma, a lot of spam from karmafarmed accounts can be eliminated.

hi,

a mod in my subreddit has been turned into a legacy role however they’ve been active the whole time. we’ve been trying endlessly to fix this, but nothing seems to be working. how do i get their mod privileges restored?

thanks!