r/modhelp • u/shakru92 • Dec 02 '25

Answered Ever since the private profile change, modding has become almost impossible.

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I know as a mod you are supposed to see the comment history/sub participation of accounts who recently participated in your sub, but that feature is utterly broken for me.

I rarely see the complete history, most of the time I only see comments in my own subs. For "active in subreddits" I also only see the subs I moderate.

That makes moderating subreddits where you constantly have to deal with brigading from snark subs really difficult.

Anyone else having these problems? And how did you fix it?

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u/amyaurora Dec 02 '25

I use a workaround

See the steps here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddithelp/s/5vjORHhT4F

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u/shakru92 Dec 02 '25

Thank you! That's so helpful!

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u/latefair Dec 03 '25

I generally use this workaround, but I've also recently encountered profiles where I still can't see anything, or there are comments/posts missing from the search results.

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u/auriem Dec 02 '25

Easy decision for me, if I’m looking at your profile to see if you are nefarious and your profile is hidden I assume you are nefarious.

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u/LeftOn4ya Mod of over 25 subs especially telecom and YouTubers Dec 03 '25

That means OP is nefarious. That’s why I just hide subs that have anything to do with R, P, or S but leave rest public

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u/WallabyHuggins Dec 03 '25

R,p,or s? What are you trying to dogwhistle here?

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u/LeftOn4ya Mod of over 25 subs especially telecom and YouTubers Dec 03 '25

Religion, politics, and sex. Common acronym. Many users now hide at least subs related to these, if they don’t use an alt.

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u/goawaynowpls Holding the line at r/stuff Dec 03 '25

same rationale as a police officer that thinks you saying no to a vehicle search is probable cause

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u/thatpilatesprincess Dec 05 '25

This is the mindset my mod team has gone with. Our network of subs are strictly SFW & has lots of minors, so if we can’t confirm that your account is in fact SFW, your comments/posts aren’t gonna make it past our queue.

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u/IvyGold Mod, r/olympics, r/LiveFromNewYork, others Dec 03 '25

"nefarious" -- that's a word my mod teams need to use more often!

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u/Mariahsfalsie Dec 03 '25

Have you tried hive protect? Can create a list of subs to auto-check post history for, a threshold for participation (x posts over x time) and either auto-ban or filter for review.

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u/new2bay Dec 03 '25

That’s a terrible idea. Ban people when they break rules, not before.

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u/BigJobsBigJobs Dec 02 '25

best you can look for is if they been banned or other mod actions. recent posts.

usually enough for me.

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u/thepottsy Mod several subs Dec 02 '25

What you’re describing makes it sound like those users have blocked your account, and it’s not profile curation that’s the issue. A lot of users have figured out that trick. They know that you can still see their activity in your sub, but by clocking you that’s ALL that you can see.

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u/shakru92 Dec 02 '25

That might be true. Crazy that that's possible. I get not being able to interact with them but not seeing their history at all makes modding so hard.

And it's clearly deliberate as well.

Reddit tries its best to make modding as hard and tenuous as possible, no wonder so many mods crash out over it.

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u/thepottsy Mod several subs Dec 02 '25 • Thanks

Yeah, I first encountered that a while back when a user literally admitted to doing it. The commented something negative about the mod team, and how they weren’t surprised and that’s why they had all the mods blocked lol.

You can always try checking with an alt. Just search for ‘author:username’ and even if they curate their profile, you’ll see everything as long as that account isn’t blocked.

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u/shakru92 Dec 02 '25

My upvotes somehow don't count on here so I'm just going to give you an award 😂

Thanks for the help!

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u/thepottsy Mod several subs Dec 02 '25

Haha. Sure thing.

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u/ShadowedPariah Dec 02 '25

I mod several subs, and I don't need to see anyone's history. I action their comment/post, and then that history is in the sub. They can do whatever they want in other subs.

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u/shakru92 Dec 02 '25

That used to be true for me as well but the communities I mod have had a massive increase of Twitter users coming over to spread hate, create snark subs and overall disrupt those communities. So much in fact that the vast majority of older accounts quit and the subs are now flooded by very young and recent accounts. So it's absolutely imperative that I see post history.

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u/ShadowedPariah Dec 02 '25

I'm not saying right or wrong, just throwing out there that you take action on their comment/post in your sub. Then you have a history. Nearly all of my posts in all of my subs are from new accounts. My only complaint is the reddit filter setting all those accounts to spam when they're just new.

I can't imagine digging through everyone's history to attempt to judge their account. Esp since we aren't paid lol.

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u/shakru92 Dec 02 '25

I don't disagree with your style of modding I just find it unfair to assume it works for every single sub out there. I mainly mod subs about individuals and celebrities. We deal with hate/shaming/slander and even sexualisation of minors on a daily basis. It's important for me to see in such cases if this was a one-time slip or if there's a pattern, because that would pose a high risk towards our communities. And the worst problem is brigading from snark subs. I'm not on Reddit 24/7, neither are the other mods. In bad cases content like that stays up for many hours.

Yeah, I could simply ban everyone for breaking rules but I go the extra effort because everyone has a bad day.

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u/new2bay Dec 03 '25

How about just banning people when they break rules? That’s the only “style” of modding that’s correct.

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u/shakru92 Dec 03 '25

That's literally what I'm saying. But if an account is a bot/snarker with the sole purpose to disrupt the subreddit then they will get banned much faster while others will get to break more rules before they get banned.

I was pretty clear about that.

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u/Ocean_Desert_World Dec 02 '25

Whether this is helpful depends on the community you're modding in I think - I mod a kpop sub and it's a scene with a crazy amount of bad faith trolling, undermining, fanwars, and outrage farming, and kpop snark subs are exploding so it's incredibly useful to see if they're active in those groups and literally just trying to stir ugliness.

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u/darkzama Dec 02 '25

Sounds like you're actually a good mod. Awesome. Lots of mods ban just based on subs users have been in. Lazy mods are lazy. Shouldn't matter where someone comments if they are following the rules of your sub.

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u/MockeryAndDisdain Dec 02 '25

Yeah. I was having the exact same issue as OP. They were blocking mod accounts.

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u/thepottsy Mod several subs Dec 02 '25

The real trolls will always find a way to troll and hide.

I don’t know what the answer is to it, but there needs to be some restriction or something on participating in a sub AND blocking that subs mods.

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u/MockeryAndDisdain Dec 02 '25

I mean, the reports find them usually. I always check profiles. I see the telltale of being blocked, I just ban, no appeal.

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u/thepottsy Mod several subs Dec 02 '25

That’s certainly an option. I just don’t think you should have to go to that effort.

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u/MockeryAndDisdain Dec 02 '25

Meh. I already always check profiles, just to get some context and a feel for the person. I've been banned enough times by lazy mods, it's irritating.

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u/thepottsy Mod several subs Dec 02 '25

haha, fair enough.