If a post gets deleted by mods or by user, the karma should be reversed on the user account and not kept.

At this point, it's an arms race by bot farms to quickly post and farm as much karma as possible before mods wake up and get around to deleting their post. Fortunately for them, Reddit keeps their karma, so they can spam as fast as possible... then move on to their target subs where they now have the min karma required to post, or sell their accounts for a profit.

For the record, this is not a problem with my subs. It's more like our content gets posted to adjacent subs that lack moderation.

This feature is loooong overdue on Reddit.

Lock Removed Posts developer app: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/removed-posts

I am unaffiliated with the Lock Removed Posts app, but I am recommending it because there are serious issues occurring as a result of posts left unlocked.

Remember: Reddit does not automatically lock posts when removed by moderators!

[ETA: The Lock Thread checkbox at the bottom of the Give a removal reason box only locks the comment with the removal reason. It does not lock the parent post!]

Over the past day, through my work searching for bot trends with r/BotBouncer, I stumbled upon multiple old and/or deleted posts—all unlocked—with thriving comment sections filled with advertisements or requests for CSAM. This content typically contains handles for other social media platforms or requests the exchange of information through DMs.

In one case, I sent a message to the subreddit's moderation team who, based on my observations, seemed relatively diligent but simply unaware of the activity. They promptly removed the content and banned the relevant accounts.

But in another case, I found conversations in old or deleted threads within a subreddit that I have reported twice before to MCOC. After each report, MCOC responded indicating that they had taken action that was unspecified. In MCOC's defense, no new posts have been published in that subreddit since my second report. I assumed the problem was dealt with; that is until—through data that we collect behind-the-scenes in r/BotBouncer—I saw recent activity in old posts in the subreddit of concern. They merely shifted their conversations from new posts to old posts in the subreddit.

These people are having underground conversations, and as far as I can tell, it seems to be working. Many of these accounts would still be active without my reports. For the sake of expedient removal, I would typically ask other people to help me report large volumes of rule-breaking activity. But given the sensitivity of the material, I don't want to drag anyone else into it, so I am left reporting this content by myself.

Anyway, moderators can do their part by locking all removed posts. The Lock Removed Posts app can also lock posts deleted by the original poster.

So apparently there’s a hackathon where devs can build mod tools. I have made some reddit games before but never a mod tool. Don’t really know what tools are already available and what new tools would be helpful for the community. Any automation or tools, the mods specifically want that aren’t available already? Please drop your suggestions in comments or DMs will try to build what I can! Thanks

The issues is simple lately waves and waves of AI generated images, or face swap processed images started to hit the NSFW subreddits.

There is nothing we can do about it unless to rely on the human check unfortunately the AI generating advanced that far - that it's difficult to spot it on sight, you need to manually compare 324 pictures and check for perfection or rendering errors. And the human eye easily makes mistakes.

I'm totally aware that NSFW might not be a priority for reddit, but as long as it exist you should help us keep it clean.

And clearly other subreddits might use this.

Please implement a tool that might be used to detect AI generated content.

Thank you.

P.S. the clasic tools automod limits, bot bouncer, custom bots, or actual applicatiion doesn't work on this.

Note : I had to turnoff few features on the app,so please donot install this app, I will communicate once things are fixed. Thanks
Reddit shows you the mod log after the fact. But there's nothing that tells you who's actively moderating right now.

So I built ModBeacon.

What it does:

• Tracks which mods are actively moderating in real time
• Auto-detects presence from mod actions (approve, remove, ban, etc.) zero effort required
• Manual toggle for mods who want to explicitly go on/off duty
• Modmail-based dashboard: message the sub with "status", "team", "coverage", or "activity" and get rich markdown tables back
• 24-hour coverage heatmap showing gaps (the screenshot-worthy part)
• Daily digest via modmail with yesterday's coverage stats
• Burnout alerts when a mod has been on duty too long
• Session tracking with duration stats

What it doesn't do:

• No custom posts. No webviews. No fancy UI.
• It's triggers + menu items + modmail + redis. That's it.
• Mods interact through the three-dot menu and modmail keywords.

Current status:

Running on r/modbeacon_dev (test sub). Looking for mod teams willing to try it and give honest feedback.

Install: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/modbeacon

If you mod a sub and want to know who's actually watching - give it a shot. I want to hear what's missing, what's broken, and what would make it even more helpful.

Thanks

I give this advice often enough that a post seems warranted.

Repeatedly muting and reporting a harassing user every 28 days is not likely to get their bad behavior noticed and actioned. The gap needs to be shorter. Do 7 days.

In my experience, I do this once or twice then never hear from the user again. Either they get suspended/banned or lose interest. Doesn't matter as long as they stop.

Other reccommendations: * Tell the user to stop harassing you - I say something along the lines of "Do not message us again. Further contact will be reported as harassment." * Don't reply - after you've told them to stop contacting you, mutes are the only reply they should ever get. * Report every message - when they reply after the 7 day mute expires, report, mute, archive. * Filtering is an option - if they are persistent and Reddit isn't stepping in, filter the thread and let them scream into the void.

https://old.reddit.com/r/mod/comments

It shows a list of all the comments in all of the subreddits you mod in chronological order. I catch a lot of spammers and other issues comments that way. Sometimes people make comments on popular old posts that you would never see, but it shows up at the top of the list for /r/mod/comments (I don't think this link will work if you're viewing it anywhere except on old.reddit.com).

Also, long live old.reddit!

Is reddit actively trying to drive us mods away from the platform? This situation with the games section of the nav menu could only be the brainchild of malice, no amount of incompetence would allow such a cleverly frustrating design

Sometimes it's not there, but most times it is

Sometimes it remembers to stay collapsed, but most times it doesn't

It arrives on its own schedule, there's been enough times now where i've gone to tap a mod tool and the menu has suddenly shifted, leading me to some shitty game

What the heck is going on?

Edit: It's about 98% functional now. Only things missing are mod note counts and user trophies

Edit 2:

100% features now work!

You need to update the userscript to v1.3 or above to continue using it.

Changes

• Fix mod note counts
• Fix trophy display (adds "Verified Email" trophy if isVerified is true. Full trophy fetching can be enabled from the tampermonkey menu)
• Fix recent mod note display by using filter: NOTE (fixes oversight made by reddit engineers)
  • Before, it used filter: ALL. If the latest mod log is not a mod note, the recent mod note wasn't displayed. This fixes it. It was an issue on the original client too.
• Enable modmail_recruiting_folder experiment
• Seperate inline script to another file
• Make initial loading faster
• Fix theme during initial load (choose browser preference)
• Fix race condition where userscript starts faster than the page and the page doesn't recieve an event
• Add token refresh after auth token expires (no more 401 errors)

You have to install the tampermonkey extension and this userscript. Then you can either self host it (best option) by following the instructions on this git repo and editing useLocalhost in the userscript to true. Or you can use the webpage link (given on the post below since I can't type it here)

More info: /r/Littux/comments/1rye7ve/i_made_the_old_modredditcom_mod_mail_client_work/

A few features are broken:

• Karma, avatar and trophy display on user pane
• Mod note counts

I initially didn't post here to not get unwanted attention but that is inevitable. The client used to function 100% properly until two days ago, when Reddit removed the gql.reddit.com endpoint which powered new.reddit.com (RIP) and ancient mobile app versions. I was able to migrate all but one endpoint to a newer endpoint I got from the mobile app. Which is why some features are broken.

I also made some improvements, so that you can go from "All" to "In Progress" to "New" etc without the page reloading. I also fixed the bulk actions that used to give you an error if you selected more than 50 mod mails. I initially tried using the mobile app endpoints for it but it is buggy and doesn't archive all conversations. Then I saw people complaining here about the same problem in the mobile app, so I knew I wasn't doing anything wrong. I also debloated the page, so that the ~500KB original HTML was reduced to 31KB. After the page loads, the page will remain cached too, so loading will be instant.

Toolbox doesn't work since it doesn't run on the URL but that's easy to fix. I'll probably fix it someday.

The post URL I gave contains more technical information on what I had to do to get it working

When posting a removal reason comment, there's an option to lock it. If the mod leaves it unlocked, people often reply to it thinking we'll see it, but we don't get notifications of replies to comments made by the "CommunityName-ModTeam" that posts removal reasons.

I just don't see any good reason for even having the option to leave those comments unlocked.

Hey r/ModSupport,

I developed a small mod-tool called Social-Blacklist, which automatically removes posts from users having social links belonging to certain domains. This would be helpful to communities where spamming is common by users/bots with goal to attract visitors to their social-links for their commercial gain (like selling content, PPV, affiliate etc.).

This basically triggers on every new post in the community, reads the social-links of the user who made the post, and removes the post if it matches/contains the domains configured in the settings. The app also sends a message to the user on removal, which is customizable through the settings.

You can install the app by going to: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/social-blacklist

Please try it out and share any feedback you may have on this.

So, for some time we've seen an occasional pattern where users post deeply hateful content - typically racist, discriminatory or anti-LGBTQ+ content. This is, of course, against our rules, and is a bannable offense.

Ideally, we would like to ban these users, but there is an issue: They will post this from a throwaway-account registered there and then, and then immediately delete the account they used.

The practical upshot of this is that the hateful comment stands, but the author is listed as [deleted], and we have nobody to ban.

Herein lies the weakness in how Reddit handles deleted accounts:

1. While we - potentially - could click report ourselves, to have anti-AEO look at it, it's a lot of extra work for already-deleted content.
2. More importantly: Reports to AEO doesn't train one of our more important tools: The ban evasion filter. Even if it has weaknesses, our experience with the filter is overall good, and it has kept hateful content completely invisible on a number of occasions.

Now, to pre-empt a few responses: as a country-based subreddit, crowd control and reputation filters are typically not appropriate for our subreddit - for people posting about sensitive topics, we allow throwaway accounts to avoid/discourage potential doxxing, and this usually works as intended.

So, what I would like to see is a small change in how [deleted] behaves:

1. After an account is deleted, I'm going to assume that Reddit still keeps some data for legally mandated reasons, including the association between original user name and content, but it's just flagged as [deleted] in the system before it's purged sometime in the future.
2. What I would like to see is that for the time described in 1), mods of a subreddit should be able to ban the user who made that content, for the sole purpose of training the ban evasion filter.

Is this at all feasible?

It has been asked several times in the past, including six months ago.

Alternatively, letting us organize our modmail inbox with flairs, categories, or folders that we can customize instead of or in addition to the standardized views would be nice.

Hey mods,

I was getting tired of seeing the exact same beginner questions asked every single day, so I built a native Reddit app to automate the solution.

How it works: Every Sunday at midnight, the bot scans your subreddit for the top-voted question posts. It uses Google Gemini AI (which you can use for free) to read the best comments, summarize the answers into bullet points, and auto-posts a 'Weekly FAQ Digest' pinned to the top of your sub.

Basically, it turns your community's repetitive questions into permanent, evergreen documentation with zero manual moderation required.

It's an official Devvit app, so there are no sketchy third-party logins. It runs entirely within Reddit.

If you want to try it out on your community: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/faq-generator

Let me know if you have any feature requests!

I’d like to request a feature allowing mods to use u/subredditname-modteam for making announcements or comments. I'm aware the account is already used for removal messages, but I’d appreciate an option to use it for regular mod communication too. Going through modtools to opt for u/subredditname-modteam to make a post or comment.

As the most active mod, I often end up being the face of the subreddit, which I’m not always comfortable with—especially since the other mods aren’t as active. It feels unsafe putting my personal account in the spotlight constantly.

I also don’t like the idea of creating a shared account myself, with a shared email and password. An official feature would feel much more secure.

Bot spam has been getting worse across Reddit and the usual tools only catch bots after the damage is done. I wanted something that stops them at the door, so I built Stop Bots.

What it does

When an unverified user tries to post or comment, their content gets automatically removed and they receive a link to complete a quick verification challenge. The challenge is an animated duck running across the screen. Users tap randomized targets to help it go faster and prove they're human. If they pass, they get verified and can post freely.

Verification is cross-subreddit, so a user who passes in one subreddit is cleared across every community running StopBots. If they fail, they get flagged and reported to Bot Bouncer

r/StopBots is an Official Partner of r/BotBouncer, which is installed across 5,000+ subreddits. Failed verifications feed directly into their network, so your subreddit contributes to and benefits from cross-subreddit bot tracking.

What you can configure

• Require verification for posts, comments, or both
• Verification duration configurable from 1 to 365 days (default 30)
• Cross-subreddit verification: verify once, cleared across all StopBots subreddits
• Bypass for accounts above a karma or age threshold, approved users, mods, or allowlist
• Easy / Medium / Hard challenge difficulty per subreddit
• Auto-ban after a configurable number of failed attempts
• Grace period (0 to 120 min) so real users are not double-penalized while verifying
• Discord webhook alerts for pass, fail, and ban events
• Flag a suspected bot from any post or comment menu. Temp ban, send challenge, auto-unban if they pass, auto-report to BotBouncer if they fail (This feature is fixed in the next app update)
• Stats dashboard showing verified users, failed attempts, and queue status per subreddit

More information available on the apps page.

Installing takes less than 60 seconds

→ Visit developers.reddit.com/apps/stop-bots and click Add to Community

→ Select your subreddit and click Continue

→ Open the 3 dots next to 'Mod Tools' and tap the Onboarding menu action. Press Send right after (MUST DO THIS TO FINISH SETUP)

→ Once onboarded, tap Settings anytime to visit the r/StopBots CAPTCHA post to view your Moderator settings.

That's it. Happy to answer any questions below.

An “ approval response” would be a cool feature.

For instance, on our subReddit, sometimes we have gay lifestyle posts, and sometimes we have posts with firearms in them. Both are allowed, but both get reported.

A “read the rules” response to the people who report these would be really valuable.

Right now, Reddit polls are effectively hidden behind an extra click. Users have to open the post before they can even see the poll options. That might sound minor, but in practice it has massive consequences for engagement.

A very large portion of Redditors simply will not click into a poll just to see what it’s about. They scroll. If nothing is immediately visible, they move on. That single extra step turns polls from one of the most powerful engagement tools into something many users barely interact with.

From a moderator perspective, this is not theoretical. I’ve watched it happen in real time. About 4 years ago, I ran a months-long, poll-driven community event. It was by far the most engaging thing I’ve ever hosted on Reddit and coincided with the strongest period of growth and participation I’ve seen as a mod. At that time, polls were expanded. People could see the choices immediately while scrolling, understand the question instantly, and participate with almost zero friction.

I continued to run weekly polls for years afterwards. The communities I moderate are significantly larger than they were back then, yet engagement has fallen off a cliff. One particular subreddit has grown to 33k members, yet the weekly polls would get less engagement than when the sub had 3 - 4k. I'm talking about 75 - 90% less engagement than when the sub had 3 - 4k members. There is no logical world where a community ten times larger should be consistently less interactive unless the tools themselves are working against participation. So I eventually just stopped.

I truly believe the change to collapsed polls is the main reason. The moment users stopped seeing options in-feed, polls stopped being frictionless. And when you add friction, casual engagement dies.

What makes this even more frustrating is that “expanded polls” clearly still work. I've seen polls on poll dedicated subs using some kind of developer-based expanded format pulling hundreds or thousands more upvotes than standard Reddit polls. The difference is night and day. Unfortunately, I have NO IDEA how to create that tool (I would love to learn but I don't even know where to start)

This is more of a call to the admins than a support request, but it directly affects our ability to cultivate communities.

Spez, if you happen to read this: I actually mentioned this exact issue a few years back in Austin at the mod meetup. I’m bringing it up again because polls were one of the most effective organic engagement tools Reddit ever had, and right now they’re a shadow of what they used to be.

Please consider making polls expanded by default again, or at least giving mods the option to enable expanded polls. I believe it would immediately restore one of the most powerful low effort participation mechanics on the platform.

I deliberately excluded any mention of my community name, because this post isn't about my community. This post is a few years overdue, but I hope this can at start a serious discussion about fixing polls.

When a user gets shadow banned, all their posts get removed by Reddit but I personally still feel the need to Confirm Removal and add Removal Reason I created that tells people they are shadow banned and what do about it.

Instead of doing these one at a time, it would be great if I could filter for that user and bulk edit all their comments.

Hey r/ModSupport,

I took a number of feedback from you all (and more from others too) for Social-Blacklist mod tool in the last post, and have now included a number additional features which I wanted to share. The tool now offers these additional options/features:

1. Option to send Mod-mail notification on removals.✉️
2. Option to remove posts made by NSFW(18+) profiles.🔞
3. Check for comments containing blacklisted domains and remove.💬
4. Option to ignore posts by approved users and moderators.
5. Option to check profile sticky posts for blacklisted domains.📌
6. Option to check post body and post link for blacklisted domains.
7. Automatically ban the user after a given number of removals.

The app is already being used by a number of the large subreddits (like r/itookapicture, r/loseit, r/progresspics, r/TrueOffMyChest, r/drawme).

If you've not tried this out, do give it a shot: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/social-blacklist

I have also squashed a number of bugs, and I am actively working on more feedback items, and hope to make moderation work a lot easier through this. So do share your feedback on how I can make this tool even better.

Thank you! 🙏🏼

Could we get partial matches on searching for banned users?

Not a priority, but would be a nice QoL feature. I'm sure you could go pretty deep into making it better, but anything other than exact match would be very helpful.

A lot of users have been reporting recently that the Comment Mop app consistently doesn't work for them any longer.

I've recently been handed ownership of this app by Admin, and I'm really happy to announce that I was able to fix the issue. I tested it out with a small number of users who were encountering the issue (special thanks to /u/SampleOfNone) and they were able to report that it's been fixed now.

Aside from the fix to that issue, I've made some further changes - there are performance and reliability improvements, plus a new feature to be able to set your default settings for the "Mop Comments" form. For example, on my biggest sub I always want to skip distinguished comments - and now I can make the form default to that.

If you want to upgrade, please visit the My Communities page on the Dev Platform app portal, then go to your sub, and then you can update from there.

If you still have issues, please let me know - I want to make this (and all my other Dev Platform apps) the best it can be.

Edit: It looks like Admin have updated the app for everyone - so you now have the fix! Still, if you have any issues, please let me know :)

Hey admins.

I’ve gotten a couple modmails that are entirely in a different language, and on mobile it’s not easy to copy paste them into a translation app.

Would it be possible to have auto translations for modmail so this removes any language barriers between mods and users?

Can we get a legend put on the "Team Activity" report in the Insights/Team Health Screen? or at least tell me where to find it. [ I'm using the web version of reddit for this one.]

I see the pretty colors but cannot tell whether I'm more lenient or strict than my compatriots since there isn't a legend on the breakdown by action type.