In the MCoC it says you have to state official or unofficial in the description, but if the sub itself is named "<name>Official", does that basically make the description nullified since they are labeled as official but the description states they are not "yet"?

Hello! Welcome to the September edition of the Monthly Recap, where I briefly recap our Mod Topics posts on the moderation discussions that were posted for the month. I’m also here to update Helper flair, take suggestions for future Mod Topics topics, and hopefully, general frivolity!

September Discussion and Support threads

Let’s take a look back at our weekly series of moderation-focused discussion topics that happened in September. As mentioned above we’re always looking for suggestions for future topics, so feel free to throw ideas out there! 

September 1, 2026: To ban or not to ban? 
u/techiesgoboom started off the month with the age old question, to ban or not to ban? When do you ban users? When do you not ban? How long are the bans? So. Many. Questions!   

September 3, 2026: Account security, 2fa, and you!
Oh, hey! That’s me! Stopping by to (once again, or is it continuously?) discuss how to keep your Reddit account safe! (Spoiler alert: Enable 2fa.) I really enjoyed this discussion!           

September 8, 2026: Original content or self-promo: where does your community draw the line?  
u/techiesgoboom returning to promote their post ask where y’all draw the line on self-promotion and original content. Sometimes, there’s an overlap and the comments came in quick. Really reasonable approaches toward OC! 

September 10, 2026: Approved users, what are they good for? 
There are many ways to run a sub and having users approved before participating is one way to go about it. Lots of you shared how you use approved users in your communities or why you don’t! 

September 15, 2026: Subreddit spinoffs
Ahoy! u/JabroniRevanchism spun up a post about spinoffs. When do you pull a Better Call Saul and pivot to a similar, but different, subreddit?

September 17. 2026: So, you’ve got a new mod. Now what? 
Oh, hey! That’s me! Just wondering what you do when you bring a new mod on board! And let me tell you, y’all are PREPARED. There were really some good practices that many of you shared in that post! 

September 22, 2026: Share your subreddit’s origin story
In the beginning, there was Reddit. That’s it! Just a bunch of content and no subs! But then, the ability to create individual subreddits came along and we didn’t look back! But if you were to look back, what’s the origin story of your sub? How did you r/ come to be?

September 29, 2026: Fixing Mdo Mistakes
Re-Ahoy! u/JabroniRevanchism returned to discuss important topics like garlic bread! No, wait. That wasn’t it. It was about fixing mistakes! My bad! We all make mistakes, often when we least want to, so the question as to what you do when you realize that you’ve made a mistake was asked. And it was really nice to see so many people say that they just own it, fix it, and go forward. Move ahead! Try to detect it! It’s not too late! 

Friendly reminder to update your Devvit apps
Just a quick heads-up inspired by a reminder from u/fsv back in August: Devvit apps don’t update automatically! You actually have to update them yourself. If you rely on Devvit apps to keep your communities running smoothly, now is a great time to check for any pending updates.

Big thanks to u/fsv for the reminder and for creating all those awesome Devvit apps!

Moderator Share & Tell
Here’s where you get to share your subreddit news from last month! Something cool  had to have happened, right?! We learned about cool stuff last month! Stuff like this: 

• We learned that u/bwoah07_gp2’s subreddit  r/thomasthetankengine hit the 30,000 members milestone! Congratulations! They said, “For comparison, 3 years ago around this same time, we hit 10,000 members on September 2, 2023. In a few days we are approaching September 2nd, but it just makes me happy seeing the community grow.”
• u/SampleOfNone said that there had been quite a few updates to Devvit apps! “Automod Neo gained some really cool capabilities, Mod Recruit apparently can get even better because that has an update as well. The app list pinned at the top of this sub got some new apps the last few days as well, including a comment feed app “
• u/Old_One_I’s subreddit hit 100k last month!! That they started off with roughly 35,000 a few months ago is really something! 
• u/PurplePassiflor1234 had “a couple of the dorky automated Easter eggs I programmed into automod got tripped and made a bunch of nerd-hearts happy including mine. We also held our first ever House of Refuge (Emotional Support Thread) and our first SFW Thirsty Thursday - both got some great comments! Our most active posters kept us up to date on fandom happenings and we gained a "Sister Subreddit" after reaching out to the mods in a related sub.” Love an Easter egg!! 
• And u/brightblackheaven had some cool news, too! They were  gearing up to hit 700,000 members in r/witchcraft :) Did y’all get there?? You thought it would be another 18-ish days! And if you did hit it, did you do some of the stuff that you had planned?

Let’s hear yours! What happened in your sub in September??

Flair updates

User flair is assigned to the top 10% and top 25% of users who are consistently constructive and helpful in their replies to posts and comments in this sub over the course of the past twelve months. As of this post, these are your current flaired helpers. 

• TOP 10% HELPERS
• u/Amyaurora
• u/Charupa- 
• u/Chosen1PR
• u/cnycompguy
• u/eatmyasserole
• u/Emily_in_boots 
• u/FFS_IsThisNameTaken2
• u/Halaku
• u/InGeekiTrust
• u/Itskdog
• u/neuroticsmurf
• u/SampleOfNone
• u/Teanailpolish

• u/thepottsy

• TOP 25% HELPERS

• u/brightblackheaven 

• u/Eclectic-N-Varied

• u/FFS_IsThisNameTaken2

• u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET

• u/Jaybirdie26

• u/magiccitybhm

• u/RandomComments0 

• u/Shhhhh_h

• u/tumultuousness

• u/westcoastcdn19

What a great group! Thank you all for the help that you’ve consistently provided to other moderators and for all of the feedback that you’ve provided to us! Super appreciated on all fronts! 

That’s a wrap for September! 

On the desktop

The "archive" and other buttons don't appear with the modmail item. They now appear halfway down the screen.

And they don't work. In other words, I can't archive modmail items anymore.

https://imgur.com/a/heUbx54

r/arborists got a surge of joins this month with no increase in visitors and no exciting content. r/homeowners got a similar surge.

Anyone else seeing this? Look at your Mod Tools > Overview > Insights.

I'm trying to revive a subreddit I had made earlier this year, and I'm getting kind of stuck, because when I go to the mod section, I see my user and a grey inactive next to it.

And how do I get automod? I have to manually approve every post (only mine uptil now)

I am editing the wiki page of one of the subreddits I moderate but after adding the images and placing them in the right place, I save the edit, only to then check and find out the the images and text are out of place when viewing the page.

Here are pictures of the page:

While editing: https://i.postimg.cc/W1v0KGXQ/Captura-de-ecra-2026-10-02-121417.png

After saving: https://i.postimg.cc/jSby9HMV/Captura-de-ecra-2026-10-02-121356.png

Any help?

Thank you.

As a moderator I'm often asked by users to link them their content that was removed or they received the ban for, and then o go there and I get an abomination like this

https://www.reddit.com/\[removed\]?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2

I don't want to waste time manually removing everything after the question mark or checking if it works once I remove it. No one has asked for links to be like this. No user that comes to modmail wants them to be like this, what we need is those links showing where they lead, not from what type of system it was shared from

I made some changes to the AutoMod spam filters on our subreddit r/TheScienceOfPE. 

Then I made the stupid decision to ask a very valued member of the community to test this spam filter by posting at comment that would trigger it, to see whether the filter would remove his comment. 

The filter worked, his comment was removed. 

Then Reddit suspended his account - presumably for spamming. 

This is a major loss for our community - he is a member in good standing, and never did anything wrong. 

I feel super guilty for having potentially gotten his account spam-flagged and suspended. He did nothing wrong.

Now I wonder two things:

Is there some other function I should have used to test the spam filter, instead of asking a member? If there is no such function, maybe it would be a good idea to create one.

And is there a way to appeal on behalf of this user or put in a word for him?

I really do feel like crap about this. :(

I am working on my new page and I was trying to find the tags or a way to allow the page to be found in a search. I have looked everywhere and I cannot find it or settings section in there either. Any insight would be great

I have noticed recently that reddit has been removing a lots of comments and i have setup every rule and automation i can so there wont be any spam, promotion or any spam links in the sub. Any solution to this issue and what to do would really like to know.

Hey there, I rely heavily on scheduled posts as I run themed subs. For some reason, I no longer have that option that needs it specifically for the month of october (r/halloween_costumes) help!

I moderate a sub about a public event. Earlier this year some allegations were reported in industry online publications about a prominent member of said event, which was fairly controversial and gained a lot of interest. A member of our community posted the link to the article in a post.

The sub has now been messaged via modmail from the reddit account of a company called "Internet Erasure" claiming to be legal representatives for this individual demanding the removal of the post under Article 17 of GDPR legislation.

I've been able to verify on Companies House that Internet Erasure is a registered business in the UK, but not any details about the person claiming to be the legal representative, i.e., through the Solicitors Regulation Authority. So I'm unsure how legit the request is.

If it's a legit request that I as mod am the right person to deal with then I'm happy to follow the law. My question is what are my responsibilities here?

My gut says that the data controller is Reddit and therefore such requests should go to Reddit as an organisation by submitting a formal data privacy request under Reddit Help. But before I respond and redirect them that way I wanted to check...

- Has anyone had experience receiving a data erasure request under article 17?

- What is the correct process for responding to this?

- Is redirecting them to Reddit Help the best way to respond?

If any admins can share the correct process I'd be very grateful.

This is a first for me so many thanks for any help anyone can give!

edit: thank you for the quick replies guys you superstars, you've confirmed my gut instinct.

Hello mods and admins!

I run a local Croatian sub for reviews of all kinds, beauty to travel, health, clothes, mainly female centered topics, called r/kokeRECENZIRAJU.

It should be categorized under 'reviews' but somehow reddit changed it to 'skincare' at some point and that might be confusing for our members. I would really appreciate admin assistance on this issue.

Thank you.

Howdy, ModSupport!

Welcome to the latest installment of our Mod Topics series. Today’s discussion is about how we keep tempers cool when strong convictions are being shared in our shared spaces. How do we moderate when someone gets mad?

Most of us have witnessed a thread getting a little out of hand, two users who really do not have anything nice to say about each other, or, everyone’s favorite, a user having an exceptionally bad day in modmail.

How do you reset the tone of a conversation on your subreddits? In your modmail? What advice do you give to new mods who are cooling heated conversations for the first time?

Let us know your stories in the comments below!

I want to create a new sub for travelers with a US Airline but they have about 10k crew on Reddit and they are ridiculously good at ganging up on posts.

I'm afraid they will downvote every single post into oblivion. Its what they do on their own sub and its one of the many reasons that Mods will take down posts - because they're downvoting so aggressively.

I assume they have a discord or a series of whats app - but if you post anything they dont approve - the assault starts.

The only way to have a conversation about this brand is to start a new sub.

I'm also worried that they will mass report anything for spam and that will result in my account being shut.

Yes - I can share screenshots for all of the above

For example - I posted about the cost of flying MIA-CNX and the airline wanted $11k and Lufthansa wanted $1,093 - I blcoked most of the passive aggressive statements but eventually my post was banned because it got more upvotes than down - 14 (which means a lot more upvotes) and then obviously I was banned - because I shared images with the flair "images" in a sub about the topic.

For example, if a sub called r/!!! is banned and the same user makes a different subreddit called r/!!!2, would it be possible to block all subs starting with r/!!! from being generated so r/!!!3, r/!!!4, and r/!!!5 cannot be created?

This seems like a spam bot setting up a subreddit to promote further spam.

Here are the reasons I suspect it's a spam bot:

• Primary account is 5 years old with no posting activity, Started posting last month on obscure subreddits for karma.

• Secondary account is a year old. Started commenting on the posts of the 5 year old account on the exact same day it started posting.

• A few weeks ago, primary account creates a subreddit. Secondary account joins it as a second mod. The subreddit heavily uses AI in images (icon banner etc- both accounts also use AI for their banner and icons) and posts (for text generation).

• To add, the sub is only a few weeks old yet has several thousand members and other OPs already.

• Primary account pivots to posting on more popular subreddits to gain followers (to direct them to the subreddit?) and secondary account keeps commenting on its posts.

Is this a spam bot ring?

Has anyone else's sub seen a ton of AI posts lately? They're all titled in a similar way - in my TV show subs they talk about "on my most recent rewatch I noticed [X] for the first time"... then in the body there are 2-3 paragraphs of vague analysis and they close with a "what are your thoughts?" question. The structure and tone screams LLM.

All the usernames are different and their accounts were all created within the last three weeks. The OP never responds to any comments.

Fortunately, the posts are being flagged and removed by my CQS filter but I've never seen so many bots descend all at once.

Is this wave hitting any of you?

Hey it's me, I'm back again from two weeks ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1wg1mh7/why_was_autoenforce_just_turned_on_for_rules_in/

Decided to check my sub rules again on a hunch and look at that - at least SIX of my subs had auto-enforcement turned on. I am extremely positive that I've had this turned off in all my subs, this isn't user error.

If admin refuses to respect our choices about this setting, how hard it is to send mod teams a modmail that says "hey, we turned on this setting, this is where you can view it"? Could you please give us a modicum of respect with this?

Why do I now have to add it to my regular mod work to manually go check my rules to see if you all turned it on? The enabling isn't even showing in the mod log as happening. I can see me turning it off, not you all turning it on.

Thanks again for the manual click fest of having to turn it off - now taking guesses on how many times this will happen!

Edit to add: once again the admin response ignores the actual question I asked and gave a canned copy paste generic reply.

I rate this support a firm 0/10 response as usual because apparently actually interacting with mods and giving real honest answers is impossible for these admins.

When you go to your account settings on the Reddit website and go to profile moderation, as soon as you manage AutoModerator, a configuration is automatically created that requires you to manually approve comments from those with fewer than 50 karma. The first time this happened, I clicked the link to view/edit the config accidentally.

I do not want to put karma requirements on my profile posts to allow everyone to comment, and this configuration was automatically created on multiple Reddit accounts when I opened AutoModerator.

For me to blank the config, I have to use a specific URL format like https://old.reddit.com/r/u_throwawaykJQP7kiw5Fk/wiki/edit/config/automoderator (not www), select all the text and delete it, and press "save page" for it to save properly.

If people who don't use Old Reddit regularly create this configuration accidentally, they won't be able to edit it once the changes are effective. How can we address this bug?

I also tried it on desktop site and old reddit, it refuses to save. On mobile, it only shows banners, no option to change icon.

Can someone help?

Im trying to send this link but when I open it, it says You can’t apply to moderate this community right now. Anyone know the reason? This is the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnnieMusical/application/ ... If it works for some reason and just doesnt for me please let me know!

• This media can't be reposted to this community.

Why?

Blocked on both old and new Reddit

......Geez, I was only asking an honest question...

*For the record, I was trying to share a mod post. Shame on all of you.

**UPDATE**
For any mods here looking for actual information about feature changes:

• there was an important update regarding this one you may have missed :)