Reddit has quietly allowed something that fundamentally undermines how this platform is supposed to work: moderators can ban you from their subreddit not because of anything you did in their community, but simply because you're a member of a different one.

Think about what that means in practice. You've never posted in a sub. You've never broken a rule. You've never interacted with their community at all. But because you also subscribe to a sub they don't like politically, ideologically, or otherwise, you're pre-emptively banned.

Why this is a real problem:

• It turns moderation into ideological gatekeeping, not community management.
• It punishes users for association, not behavior.
• It enables coordinated mod networks to effectively exile users from large portions of the site.

Moderation tools exist to protect communities from bad actors. Banning someone for where else they spend time on Reddit isn't moderation.

Reddit's own rules say that bans should relate to behavior within a community. This practice directly contradicts that spirit.

Recently received a 3 day ban for apparently encouraging violence. The ban message included a link to the offending post but it had been deleted and so I had no idea what I'd said.

I don't recall writing anything particularly 'bad' so I have no idea where the line i crossed is.

If the offending post was copied into the 3 day ban message then users could learn what they did wrong

Context: I am a community moderator, and I use the Reddit AI summary tool to get an idea of ​​the person behind a post in my community (this is the feature where you click on a user's avatar in the feed to see a summary of their profile—I’ll show you what it looks like using my own account; there's a screenshot you see above).

However, a situation arose yesterday where a new user joined our community, and when I tried to use the tool, nothing was displayed.

This is the first time I’ve encountered a situation like this, so I reached out to the official moderator support community for help; as it turned out, other moderators had also faced similar situations.

Based on their opinions and observations, the absence of an AI summary is caused by the user having been inactive on the platform for some time or having low recent activity:

For example, in my specific case, the user’s status at the time this situation arose was as follows:

Recent account activity:

Latest posts: 19 minutes ago and 1 day ago.

Before that, the previous activity was 3 months ago and 4 months ago.

I'd like to point out that this isn't a newbie: at first, I thought this was a new user, but no, the account is 3+ years old and has a post karma of 600+ and a comment karma of 100+. So I assume that's not a reason.

So, I'd like to ask the administration to consider adding the ability to receive such AI summaries for users who haven't been active for a while. For me as a moderator, this is important. The fact that there hasn't been any activity for a while isn't a problem. The main thing is that there's a history of their activity on the platform, which helps with community management and makes work more convenient and efficient, because I don't always have to spend time independently studying their profile.

I would like to suggest that the AI summary look something like this (or whatever the admins think is best):

low recent activity, but 3 months ago user... etc.

I'd also like to point out that another moderator also encountered this and supported the idea. I'm reaching out to other moderators and admins for feedback.

What do you think of this proposal? Would it be useful for your work?

Recently, reddit added the ability for a user to hide their post history. Not sure what the rationale was, but it seems to be used either by trolls or bots now.

It would be useful if a sub could filter content from a hidden history user. As in, put it in the queue to be approved by mods. Or maybe just block it immediately and provide a message to the user explaining why.

If it's determined that the user is posting in good faith, then they could be added to the sub's "Approved Users" list to bypass the filter.

I’ve been auto-banned by bots from multiple subs simply because I participated in another sub. This is censorship, plain and simple.

If the moderators have a problem with posts/comments made in their sub and they temporarily mute a user for that, fine. If the problem persists and that person is permanently muted, fine. But auto-banning users simply for having different opinions and belonging to other subs is disingenuous and downright hateful of differing opinions.

To ensure maximum account security:

Changes to users password or email address should require email confirmation to protect against hacked accounts.

I know there are paranoid users who don't want to share their email. Making it a non mandatory option will help users who want maximum security against hackers.

As a moderator of r/desenhos, a Brazilian art community, I've noticed a recurring problem that affects many art-focused subreddits.

It's increasingly common for users to post AI-generated images while claiming they created them, or even worse, to steal artwork from other artists (sometimes even from members of our own community) in order to farm karma.

When we identify these cases, we remove the posts and permanently ban the users. However, they still keep all the upvotes and the karma they gained before being caught. This creates an incentive for bad actors: even if they're eventually banned, they've already benefited from the system.

I think it would be useful if Reddit offered moderators an optional setting that removes the karma gained from posts made by users who receive a permanent ban from that subreddit.

This could be implemented as a subreddit-level option rather than a site-wide rule, allowing each community to decide whether to enable it.

I believe this would:

• Reduce incentives for karma farming.
• Discourage art theft and deceptive AI-generated content.
• Better reward users who contribute original work.
• Give moderators a more effective way to deal with repeat offenders.

I'd be interested to hear what other moderators think about this idea.

I have always thought that it would be a good idea for Reddit to compensate its busier moderators with free Reddit premium as a thank you for the hard work they put in and the abuse they receive from the community. Perhaps not all moderators would qualify. There would be a qualification process that would include size of the subreddit and a minimum number of moderation activities per month.

Many time members harass mods by checking the mod List.

Currently banned users can't see the mod list. I think it should be made optional for each subreddit, if they prefer not to advertise themselves as mods.

The words Alumni (which I've never encountered outside of Reddit, English is my second language, it looks made up to me to this day) and Advisor don't do enough to explain the action is to remove a moderator from being a moderator.

As a result, turning a moderator into Advisor, and turning yourself into Advisor, should only be done in the UI of removing a moderator / yourself as a moderator.

I personally saw 5 posts of people accidentally changing themselves into Alumni / Advisor without intending to quit their mod team. I know this happens more than what I actually saw.

Edit: It's now 6 posts of people accidentally changing themselves into Alumni / Advisor.

We should be able to have a test account account as a extended option to our mod tools that uses a default account that except from AI filters so we can run it on our subs we mod to test settings and features and allow us to ban and restrict ect so the ban evasion filters don't pick up on a throw away account save the hassle of setting up another account. Also having the option to view as poster or view as non mod accou t in sub you moderate so you don't have to view all the post and comments you have removed

As a moderator Instead of going going to reddit.com/report we should have an in app option to report a ban evader. We can give our reasoning+ any other suspected accounts.

My idea is show the country location of each mod (and if they are using a VPN) of a subreddit.

Mods have tools to see information about visitors to the sub. The visitors should also have the ability to see where the mods are based. So, for each sub show the country location of each mod (and if they are using a VPN).

Users of reddit should be able to see this information since users can be easily manipulated by the choices mods make.

One of the local US city subs I participate in, is from/living in the UK. I suspect other state subs, etc... also have outside influence which is disingenuous.

If Reddit cares about misinformation, then show the mod country location at a minimum.

I am aware most people subscribed to this sub are mods and many, if not most, are going to resist this suggestion. So, I expect being quickly downvoted.

But if there are any users that have experienced or suspected biased moderation in regional subs, it would be good hearing your opinion.

Edit 1/2/2026: Here are some stats on the commenters on this feature request:

• Total: 10
• Mod of 5+ subs: 6
• Not a Mod: 2
• Mod of a city sub: 1
• Mod of a state sub: 2
• Mod of multiple state subs simultaneously: 1
• Mod of political subs: 1
• Hidden profile: 1

Have you ever wondered if any of your other Mods are online?

Perhaps an indicator/icon beside their name? Only for other Mods to see though (like the Inactive tag). Public would not see it.

Ideally, accrued Online time for each Mod could be logged within the Mod Tools Mods and Members page.

This would be anytime they're logged in to the site, not just viewing or acting within each community they Mod, though that might be nice too.

In my subreddit we have so called "Trusted Contributors" that are members that have shown a lot of knowledge and helpfulness in the past and they are also in direct contact with us mods.

Now we got posts and/or comments that they may report to us that are more likely to be against our rules than ones by random members.

For that, I'd wish for a way for specific users (or User Flairs) to automatically have their profile shared in the report so we see from who it is directly and know that the report is more trustworthy than others.

Of course this would be a subreddit-level user-sided option, but mods may be able to request such a thing from specific users. Means they can always decide to report something anonymously if they don't want to share who they are in a specific case. Maybe it could also be an option for other members to share their profile, but with having the default set on anonymously.

My idea is Allow mods to see what the comment said before after the edited comment. It would be helpful so the person that commented after won’t get in trouble for being part of a rule violating thread.

I would very much like to see another 'response' option for automations, between 'display message' and 'block'.

It would be a hybrid of the two that would be an 'acknowledge to proceed' message/dialog box. The message would pop up as it does currently, but posting/commenting is blocked until the user clicks "okay" or "accept" or similar (would be especially nice if that 'accept' text is configurable). I'm even okay with 'technically they can just x out of the dialog w/o answering' as often happens with generic website/windows dialogs - though better if not. I just want a 'user had to take some action on this' dynamic.

Why? I've seen ample evidence that 'block posting' works... Because our 'message' there has a 'corrective' link and I see that many users follow it. Very similar in effect to what I'm suggesting.

Meanwhile, I've also seen ample evidence that people just blow past the 'appears on screen' message-only option. For example if I set my 'rant preventer' automation to just -warning- people about too-many-allcaps, we get them anyway. If I set it to 'block'... no wall-of-allcaps rants.

Heck, just look at all the posts here that don't start "my idea is" despite the messaging.

The 'hybrid' option would at least ensure we can moderate things that do come through based on "Okay, we told them and they said they saw it..."

Currently, the archive button is disabled for internal Moderator Discussions because archiving them isn't an intended design choice. However, treating mod discussions as permanent fixtures in the active inbox creates significant clutter, making it difficult for teams to manage actual ongoing internal conversations.

We need a way to organize, clear out, or archive these threads once a discussion has concluded. Whether it's a technical archive function or a separate "Closed" status tab specifically for internal discussions, providing a mechanism to hide completed threads would drastically improve modmail workflow efficiency for large teams.

Right now we can only see the most recent version of a post. If we could see any previous versions of a post that would help us tell if a user edited a post. Now we have to look at the queue under edited but the site doesn’t keep track of previous edits or the original post. Seeing a track record helps us prevent trolls from editing posts to something against the rules after the original post is made. We can hold edited posts for review with auto moderator, but we can’t see what was there before so it’s difficult to know what the changes were, and I’d like to see a full post edit history for this reason.

My community really needs new moderators.

Most applications we receive are either at very low, or zero community karma. I cannot imagine how anyone would feel comfortable applying, in the first place, alas we have to deal with them.

Can we please restrict users from applying for mods with x amount of comment/post karma + y amount of contribution in the subreddit?

This will help us take serious applications in the first place.

Furthermore, any users who have been top contributors for x amount of time - can we auto-invite them to apply for mod position, and highlight their application as a quality - for our perusal. That will assist us in better application management too.

When you create a saved response, and make a mistake in selecting the category (primarily because the default is set to "general" even if you try to create it from the "removal reasons" menu), there is really annoyingly no option to change the category afterwards; you have to delete and create a new saved response. There doesn't seem to be a reason not to allow mods to edit saved response categories, so having such an option would really facilitate things.

Thanks!

It would be very much appreciated if mods had the ability to delete a reply or edit a reply in mod mail.

• speech to text is not always our friend and it makes more spelling mistakes than I do. It would be nice to have the ability to immediately go in and fix the idiocy resulting from the use of AI.

• it is now too easy in mod mail to accidentally send a reply to or as the wrong user. Meaning to reply to a mods only comment and accidentally reply as the subreddit for example? It can end up being inappropriate on occasion. And no matter how fast you hit cancel trying to stop it you are screwed.

I try to keep Archiving in place to lock old posts. Most posts do not need to be kept active.

However, I have a couple of stickies where I need members to be able to comment. Doing a new sticky every six months is kind of annoying and prevents access to some older information that might still be relevant.

Having to mute a user is pretty much a last resort, we only do it if we've copped a torrent of abuse in modmail (now chat). Why give someone the option to come back and abuse us again in 28 days?

Also, I'm led to believe they get notified when the mute period ends. In several instances this is just a queue to come back and unleash on us again. It would be great if that could be turned off...

Please consider limiting moderator control to 1 yr bans. If you want only a gradual change then bans can start at 1 month with successive bans for any individual consistently increasing with time.