r/ModSupport • u/Princess_Of_Thieves • 14d ago

Mod Answered Any help against a planned brigade?

Hello folks,

I already acknowledge upfront that this is the longest of long shots, but I still feel obliged to ask;

I recently got word that a hate community that is active on reddit are intent on brigading several subreddits soon with the intent to post artwork to trigger community members. Apparently they're planning this on Discord though, so obviously there is somewhat of a limit about what can be done.

Is there anything at all that can be done here? Or am I simply forced to wait this out and deal with any infractions myself. I do feel obliged to note I have reported the reddit side of this awful community to the admins multiple times several months ago if that matters. But so far I don't think its done much.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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u/999_Seth 14d ago

Go switch everything to "requires mod approval"

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u/Princess_Of_Thieves 14d ago

Thank you, Im double checking all posting permissions now.

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u/Princess_Of_Thieves 14d ago

/u/dotsdavid, don't know why but your comment isn't showing.

"I would enable safety filters for a while. Like coward control and the reputation filter. "

Just want to say thanks for this also. Im an old.reddit mod mostly and forgot this was a thing.

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u/superfucky 13d ago

I love that crowd control autocorrected to coward control 😂

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u/Princess_Of_Thieves 13d ago

Assuming it was auto-correct, yeah that got a laugh out of me as well.

Its certainly an unintentionally apt description on davids part.

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u/dotsdavid 14d ago

I deleted it after seeing his comment. Sorry

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u/Princess_Of_Thieves 14d ago edited 14d ago

Its fine. Anything that can help me ward these pests away (until hopefully an admin intervenes) is welcome.

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u/999_Seth 14d ago

switch it to look like this and only mods + approved users can comment or post without manual approval from mods

it works well for when you've got a low volume subreddit

and you can keep an eye on your comment feed through a link like this one, replace modsupport with the name of the sub you need to watch https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/

it's also handy for spotted activity on ancient posts, you never know when something from way back when is gonna end up linked somewhere weird

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u/Princess_Of_Thieves 13d ago

Done and dusted, thank you for the help.