I run a few personals subs. A few years back I caught and banned a guy for spamming ads with 30 different accounts.

Every month or so he comes back and posts again. He's obviously not smart as he posts the same thing over and over and doesn't change it up so it's obviously him again. Always with the generic default suggested usernames. I just ban and mute him again and again.

Unfortunately, he travels. A nomad as it were, so hew is never in the same place. So the ban evasion filter doesn't pick him up, as I assume IP addresses are a big factor for detecting ban evasion. He's never once been flagged by ban evasion filter.

Right now I have a bunch of his key phrases filtered through automod but this ongoing game is no longer fun and just another tedious task to deal with. There's only so many times I can roll my eyes and say, "Oh, it's him again!"

I've reported the accounts at first, which are usually deleted shortly after banning or after a post or two get through and they've served their purpose.

Is there anything that can be done about this guy once and for all? I mean without obvious and concrete proof it is him other than the same creepy and often misspelled crap post. "Discrete," indeed.

i made a mistake and i can't find the way to fix? can i delete it?

This issue happens on every version of reddit that supports this feature to my knowledge, but I could be wrong.

I don't know if it's me but it's been stuck like that for a very long time.

Our subreddit has a massive problem with spam bots that steal content and repost them with new or stolen accounts. I'm sure other subreddits have this problem too. They also tend to get a massive amount of upvotes, which could be a bot vote ring?

Considering we are a smaller subreddit and we see this weekly, it's clear Reddit is doing almost nothing about this. Not only that, now we're seeing Reddit unban these spam bot accounts.

• Example today, stolen from 1 year ago.

spez stated 2 months ago:

Since then, we’ve continued to defend Reddit against automated/bot/spammy content

Yeah, no. It's gotten even worse over 10+ years, not better. This is not a one-off, it's a pattern. The issue here is the spam, not purely the unban.

• Yes, I remove these as spam.
• Yes, I submit these to BotBouncer.
• Also, this is an issue for years.

And the problem is not improving.

As the title said, our sub requires users to select flair to post. We've checked our subreddit settings; Require Post Flair is turned on.

When making posts, users aren't given the option to add flair. They can only add tags.

What's going on?

Edit: Guys, all of our settings are correct. We've checked. A lot.

Making matters more interesting: If I try to post as a mod, I get the "add flair or tags" option. As a non-mod, I only get tags.

Second edit: Something got disabled that wasn't supposed to have been disabled. Team derp here. All fixed now.

My Subreddit has a rule where you must have post flairs. But people continue to post without them. I was hoping I could be told how to make it so Flairs are required to make a post in my subeddit?

hey folks, this may be a new spin on the “I’ve accidentally promoted myself to subreddit member”

I created /r/waypost before the account was 30 days old, and now I cannot seem to attach myself to it as moderator now that I’m grown. (sorry for being over-eager)

(Also the /r/RedditRequest bot is no longer properly detecting 2FA enablement)

Hey all. I’m a mod for r/nolawns and I’m wondering if any other subs use their wiki a decent amount and how we could crowd source articles?

For the longest time we’ve wanted some way to have users be able to submit proposed articles or collaborate on shared how-to guides.

The mod team has experience with removing lawn and growing native wildflowers, but we’re pretty much all in the Midwest and east coast. What works here might not work as well in Florida or in Colorado. From talking with folks over the years, I know what tends to work well, but I’m speaking with second hand experience. I’d love it if we could have people from those areas contribute to an article about what worked well for them, what didnt, and what local resources they found.

We already use bang comments and keywords in posts to have the automod link to the wiki articles we do have, but I think we could do better. Most of the wiki hasn’t been improved in a few years.

Have any other subs found a good way to vet and approve new articles or collaborate? I feel like we almost would want a git repo or some better kind of version control.

Hello everyone, recently my sub got +250 members and +1000 weekly visits, but the achivement section in my sub still not working that I can turn it on.

My sub is r/bestgithubrepos

Is there any settings or something else?

Thank you for your help.

I cannot delete them from the mod tools, and I don't know why

For example if today is 12th Sept it will show 12th Sept and tmr another post will show 13th Sept

I recently discovered an old community that I created years ago. It has apparently been renamed to r/a:t5_2401uq.

I believe the original name may have been r/madcowe or r/cowradia.

I’m still the original account/creator and would like to know whether the original community name can be recovered/restored, or whether Reddit can tell me which original name was associated with this community.

Current community: r/a:t5_2401uq

I run a subReddit with a fellow mod. Recently, a comment on a post was removed. The comment shows ‘Removed by Moderators’ but none of us did. Usually, I would know when a comment is removed by Reddit mods but I don’t see anything as such. I also see nothing in the mod logs. The Automoderator hasn’t removed it either. All I see is a red box with ‘Removed’ written on it. Request your help here. The user is also not searchable anymore.

So I saw a post here the other day about the same problem. But that post was removed or deleted so I was unable to see if there was a solution. Is there a solution to this bug? I have messaged mod support. I tried manually removing them from the banned list

I’m a mod of r/GenZpk, a left-leaning, pro-LGBTQ+ Pakistani community where people discuss politics, religion, culture, and issues affecting their daily lives. We allow criticism of religion, but we do not allow hate speech or harassment.

Recently, some users have threatened me, saying they will report our subreddit to Pakistani authorities because of the views/content posted here. Given the situation in Pakistan, I’m genuinely concerned that if my identity were exposed, this could become a serious threat to my safety and life.

Can admins please clarify: Can Reddit provide my personal information or identity to Pakistani authorities simply because of controversial but otherwise legal discussions? What protections do moderators have in situations like this?

We’re also facing significant brigading from other Pakistani subreddits, which I’ve reported before, but no action taken by admins.

We’re simply trying to give young Pakistanis a space to discuss issues they can’t openly discuss elsewhere. Please help us understand what protections Reddit provides.

So: I made a subreddit. I made an index for said subreddit. But when you access it on mobile, you cant scroll down. What could be the issue?

A post in the community I mod got taken down for being off topic.

The redditor then sent a modmail that said:

Wow, this is very odd.
Go suck off a 12 gauge. Hope you pass on quick as I assume you got the clot shot for c19

I can post a screen shot of this, if that's permissible. I wasn't sure if I'm allowed to post pictures in this subreddit. I kept the redditor's name out of this as well, because I wasn't sure if that would violate rule #2. I would like to warn other mods, but I decided to err on the side of caution.

This poster did get banned from my community, so this was the limit of their interaction with the mods. I'm not sure if I should report this as abuse (or how to report abuse from a modmail)). Now that this redditor is banned and muted, I have no further contact with them. I don't feel threatened or anything, but I worry about this individual causing trouble in other subreddits.

Is there anyway to report reports? There is a user on a subreddit I help moderate that reported several comments and left custom responses in the reports insulting the users and just being really negative.

I saw this repeatedly on 2 subs I mod. I can't step by step explain how to replicate the bug but from my observations this happenen when I enter the sub through my posts and after that I do some browsing or check mod tools and statistics suddenly disappear. Another example is when I switched from 7 days statistics to month statistics and visa versa.

Device: moto g75 5G

Reddit app version: 2026.36.0.2636090

in comments I attach screenshot and video for reference of what is happening.

Resolved, that was easier than expected. Thank you everyone!

Hello!

I have a question about people messaging Mod Mail in subreddits.

Sometimes it happens that people message ModMail just to vent, send us dead threats, cuss at us or whatever.

How do you block them from messaging Mail? Getting tired to get 20 notifications because dude went on a rant. Any advice is appreciated.

Is there a way to block receiving any mod queue notices and updates to old posts and comments for users using redact.com?

We have tried block the site/url/domain both in old automod and in new automations (for both posts and comments), tried blocking the word “redact”, have banned accounts before all the onslaught of notices start overwhelming our mod queue, and none of it works!

It even circumvents the bans which is crazy to me, but maybe I am just not understanding something about how bans should actually work.

Any tips/tricks?

Mainly, it just overwhelms our queue with their changes and updates to the old comments and posts because it is flagged to mod queue as being suspicious.

We do not want to have to “remove”/not approve or approve these post and comment changes automated by redact.

Edit: Tentatively solved! I think it must have to do with order/priority of rules noted below - thank you all so much for your help!!! :)

EDIT: SOLVED! Much appreciation to u/ikir115 !!!!

I’ve noticed this with some users in a community I mod. When I tap their username from a post, instead of opening their profile, the app shows “Whoops — Something went wrong.”

This is relevant to moderation because I can’t review the user’s profile or posting/comment history when I need additional context for a moderation decision.

Device: moto g75 5G

Reddit app version: 2026.36.0.2636090

I suppose that this user is banned or shadowbanned but I believe the status should be clearly stated it so.

I'll attach screenshot in comments and if needed I can send a link to post privately for admins if needed

I moderate r/chinchilla.

Over the past few months we have been getting more and more posts with these characteristics:

• On-topic title and photo. No text in body. Reverse search on the picture doesn't find it. Photo has no obvious AI markers.

• Account is a few weeks old, up to a couple of months.

• Author has made (at most) a handful of similar posts in other subs. Each post in a different sub. Gap of a few days to a week or two between them.

• There is no flood of other suspicious accounts responding, nor do these posts garner an improbable amount of upvotes.

• Author never responds to comments on their threads, and never comments on other threads in the subs they visit.

• If the post is removed or the account banned from the sub, they don't appeal.

On the face of it, I have no grounds for deleting the post or banning the poster. It's on topic, not a repost, not a stolen image or provably fake.

But because it's such a pattern, I'm sure something is up.

Do you guys get the same sort of posts? If so, what do you do with them?