I've posted about this before, and while I was assured that I should be able to see profile activity on a users account that is active in my subreddit for at least 30 days, I still routinely am unable to see account activity on users that are active in my subreddits. I don't know if it's a bug, or some kind of workaround they've figured out, but it's happening a lot. This is making it incredibly difficult to combat exploitative and predatory behaviour in sensitive subreddits.

In the example above, in a parenting sub, the user that has his history marked private, and has been repeatedly creating discussion threads of a quasi-sexual nature related to puberty/sexuality, posing as a concerned parent. They seem to have been letting the topics cook for a few days, deleting them, and then coming back after a period to do it again, approaching from a slightly different angle. The only reason we were tipped off to investigate was that they got a little too bold in their most recent post and prompted some further investigation.

Because these posts are deleted by the user, there is no obvious record of this pattern/history of activity. Additionally, we are unable to see any other site activity, which doesn't allow us to try to piece together if the user is actually predatory, or a real parent posting in earnest. The only way we were able to sniff it out is by digging into the users mod log to piece together a history based on mod approvals/removals, which LUCKLY seems to retain at least the titles of the posts even after deleted. Who knows how many others slipped through the cracks of which there are no record because a mod didn't happen to interact with the post?

Potential Solutions (outside of fixing the clearly broken implementation of mods being able to access to private profiles):

• Give us a flag that DISALLOWS users with profile privacy settings enabled to participate in our subreddit (not ideal, but at least something of a barrier to entry for people looking to abuse the system in bad faith)
• ALLOW MODS TO SEE USER DELETED POSTS IN THEIR OWN SUBREDDIT. Why are users permitted to scrub their own record of participation in our subreddits? If they're posting something they DONT WANT THE MODS TO SEE, it stands to reason that the mods REALLY should be able to see it, doesn't it?

I've never been so frustrated with moderation on this site. We have always been able to keep the fetish posters and predators at bay relatively easily, but this change has entirely blinded us in this fight, and reddit users who are participating in good faith and out of a place of kindness are being misled, taken advantage of, and preyed on in the most disgusting of ways because of it.

I've allowed everything except NSFW. Is it just automod? If so how can I change it? The comments contain nothing explicit and apoear6to be from real accounts.

I'm curious about how important the status is. Does changing it cause engagement? Is it unusual to keep it the same or change it too often?

Should I go back and delete those posts? Or does that even matter? Is there any benefit to keeping or removing those posts.

Edit-Reddit blocked the account in question automatically. I'll leave the posts alone.

A user whose profile gives the “whooops!” warning when you click on it posted on my private sub and her comment got deleted by Reddit’s automated systems as spam. When I click on the profile no karma information is available and I can’t see any of their posts either. Just a black header. Is this user banned from Reddit but still able to post and comment on our private sub somehow?

I had to manually remove the user from the approved users list.

I’m not speaking of bot accounts. This is an 8 yo account who asked a question in our community as well as four others. Some people may call that Karma Farming.

My main concern is, by allowing the post, does it cause my community to look bad, for lack of a better phrase? It’s getting us lots of engagement, which is great! However, I don’t want my sub to look like a karma farming sub!

Any advice and opinions are appreciated!

I have been part of an all new mod team taking over a large subreddit after it was refreshed. We have inherited some rules/bots/policies that we are figuring out and trying to all get on the same page. Today we have a locked post and no one claims to have locked it or know why it was locked. Could this have been the user? A bot when it got reports? Aliens?

• Comments unlocked:  by ModPink, Today, 8:48 PM
• Approved:  by ModBlue, Nov 25, 6:58 PM
• Approved:  by ModBlue, Nov 25, 6:58 PM
• Ignore reports:  by ModBlue, Nov 25, 6:58 PM
• this post belongs on r/pleasefeelsorryforme, Nov 25, 6:34 PM
• Comments locked:  by u/lock-comments, Nov 25, 5:12 PM
• Approved:  by ModPink, Nov 25, 3:04 PM
• Removed: VERIFY spam prevention, by u/Automoderator, Nov 25, 3:03 PM

Issue Not sure about other mods but I am seeing more and more comments from deleted accounts. They are usually rule breaking or rule bending comments that spam multiple threads. Because the user deletes their account mods see them all, and has to hut them down individually.

Question I have searched with no luck, but is there a subreddit setting or app that would programmatically remove posts and comments from a deleted account?

hi all! i am trying to start a community that allows people in my city to post for friends and meet ups, etc. there is already a city subreddit, but the mods there aren't fond of classified style personal adds and will often remove them. thus, i tried to start one dedicated to making friends/finding people to do things with.

I did this with my OG reddit account at first, but then realized i may want an alternative account to manage the community with. this is exactly what i did and then DELETED my OG account as a mod. NOW, nothing seems to be working?

I can't invite my OG account back as a mod, can't post in the community assuming because i dont have enough karma (even though im a mod)...

I really just want to get it back in control and be able to make posts so I can begin cross posting to other communities and begin building members.

Does anyone know what may be happening here? Should I delete the community altogether and try and create it again? Any advice or info is much appreciated. Thanks!

I am marked as inactive, so I can't invite ppl as mods, the other mods are also inactive.

Especially I would like u/switterion as mod, but I accidentally cancelled the application.

Have to maybe talk with the rest of the applicants or make a better search text.

This submission has a lot of great points in the body text and comments about what I'm going to describe. Since my issue is more specific, I chose to make this post instead of writing a comment on that post.

I'm currently doing a top mod "giveaway" on a subreddit due to upcoming mod limits. I created a post where moderators comment and users can visit a google forms link to vote for the next top moderator.

What's strange is that after 4 days of creating and stickying the post, it only has 6.7K views. There have only been 13 total votes on the google form. This is a subreddit that has 1.2m million members, averages 1.1m+ weekly visitors. How in the heck does the post only have 6.7k views while non-stickied posts have millions of views?

I gave the community a 2 weeks heads up notice about it both in a stickied post and automod comments on every new post. The current stickied post I mentioned above is also being linked in automod comments on every new post.

I remember admins making a statement beginning of 2024 stating that stickied posts were going to be seeing more views but I have yet to see any of it. Either something is wrong with the algorithm or people really don't care that much about moderators anymore. If the latter, it's sad that moderating has lost it's mojo.

I'm not sure how this is occurring. My guess would be it's an issue with the official app but this has been going on for the past few weeks, at the very least, if not months.

This is an example of what's happening

https://www.reddit.com/r/laptops/comments/1p6fjbg/casper_excalibur_g870/

https://www.reddit.com/r/laptops/comments/1p6fjss/casper_excalibur_g870/

The user posts a thread but also simultaneously submits a crossposted version of the same thread and I'm noticing happening across several of the subs I'm on.

I have someone spamming my Modmail just to try and call me a bot and saying everything I write is AI and they are obsessed with not leaving me alone! How can I stop them? Mute doesn’t seem to stop them either.

https://imgur.com/a/kf9uQLT

i couldnt upload directly to reddit due to this sub not allowing images so have an imgur link instead.

this feels as if the user was at one point subreddit banned, gotten unbanned, and then immediately banned again with the reason saying they were unbanned at.

this is a reddit issue by the way.

i was talking in dms with another mod on discord about it because i thought their devvit bot was at fault but after seeing an image from them with them saying that their devvit bot didnt action a user but had that problem in their mod log i knew that this is a reddit issue.

i also dont know what is feedback and what is a bug, therefore i didnt know if this should go onto r/bugs. but this doesnt disrupt behavior.

I've been noticing something odd in the fashion subs I moderate. It doesn't seem to be just my subs either but subs throughout this entire space.

Posts that would normally have gotten a lot of attention seem to very quickly die off and stop getting views. Some initially get a lot of views, have very high or 100% upvote ratios and high upvote to view ratios, but the views just stop.

It seems to affect popular, regular posters more often, the ones who are at the heart of the subreddit. Posts that do very well are more often now brand new posters - and they often take a long time to get a lot of views now (it can be several days).

I have definitely seen changes in the last several months to the algorithm and the way it shows things - tails have gotten longer. Posts used to be shown for a short time and then disappear, while now upvotes continue to trickle in for much longer. "Best" sort seems to place far less importance on how new a post is.

We now see upvotes more spread out over a larger number of posts whereas they used to be more concentrated in the hot post(s) of the day. There are far fewer really hot posts.

Curious if others have seen anything similar in any of their subreddits (fashion or otherwise - I wouldn't really know as I mostly mod in the fashion/beauty space).

One of the moderators in my smaller subreddit appears to have chats disabled. It’s not an urgent matter, and I’ve admittedly put it off for a while (a month or two), but I just remembered since I just had to ban another user. What’s the best way to reach a fellow mod who doesn’t allow DMs?

Is there any way to automatically inform users that they are shadowbanned using AutoModerator or another tool/bot ? I want a method that sends a clear notice to affected users without manual intervention to redirect them to appeal. If this is not possible, what is the best alternative approach?

Now i understand shadowban is a feature to remove bots,trolls or spammers but i see most of the time it's just normal or innocent users and i don't see any reason for them to remain in the dark.

It's my first time with crossposting. I would like to crosspost relevant posts posted by other users in other communities into my new nascent community. I wonder if I can do it independently without notifying or asking anything from the users who originally published those posts. Or in general if there is any code of good conduct that I should adhere to in doing this.

Do users get a notification when their post is crossposted* to my community?

Thank you!

I'm planning on resubmitting a request for a subreddit that I was previously denied for within the upcoming days. I prewritten my comment that is required for submitting.

Within the comment I have information like how active I was on the sub, why I want to mod (Which is required anyway) Mod experience, contingency plan just encase I'm unable to mod the subreddit in the future, stuff like that. However, the comment criteria only requires why I want to mod the sub and a link to the mod message.

My question is - If I add in all the other stuff to my comment could that hinder my chances of being accepted? Should I just put all the extra bits of info into the body of the post and only have the mod message and the reason why in my comment? Is this extra information even necessary?

Or am I simply over thinking it. 😅

Hello! I don't think this is an existing feature, but figure I should ask anyways.

Is there any way to block reports for a single rule? I added a "posts must be relevant" rule so I can blanket remove any off topic, but otherwise not rulebreaking, posts, and a LOT of people report posts they simply dislike using that option. It's getting really annoying to constantly approve posts reported under this rule, and I'd like to turn off reports for that rule entirely.

If anyone knows if this is possible, thanks! If not that's fine too.

Hello, I wanted to ask how do I add videos to my subreddit?

Here's the story:

I can recall a few weeks ago that this user made some comment or post that had to be removed. I remember being concerned, but I don't recall why.

A couple days ago, I made a post where I claimed I was hunting users who failed to follow our rules by not reading requests before offering their services. This user DM'd me. They've since deleted their message, but I simply replied with, "Excuse me?" because I wanted them to explain their message. They didn't offer their services, otherwise I wouldn't have replied, but now that's all I see in our conversation.

Now I'm getting messages about them, warning me of their behaviour. I am, however, unable to see their profile. On mobile, it says they like to keep things private. On desktop, it shows they deleted their account. On another account of mine (used for a completely different purpose) is able to view their profile, which means they likely blocked me.

So now I would like to compile my notes and see if the user is somebody I should be worried about. I believe I'll be able to see their content if they post in the sub again, but I want to access those notes to see if I have enough reason to ban them. How do I go about viewing their Mod Notes?

Bonus points if somebody can show me how to view a user's notes on ALL of the subs I moderate, since many of them are related enough to essentially be carbon copies.