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What is the primary role of a subreddit moderator?
They do a huge amount of important work to create new communities, recruit participants, post content, manage subreddit settings & style, recruit new moderators, set rules for their subreddit, and monitor/manage submissions and comments.
Can moderators ban people?
They have broad administrative control, and can bring in moderators to manage community members. They can also ban or remove members and, if necessary, remove and replace moderators. The best moderators typically are seasoned and enthusiastic participants in one or more communities.
Can Reddit mods ban you for no reason?
Do Reddit Moderators often ban you for no reason (or ridiculous ones)? No, actually. The Reddit mods only ban when whether you did something really wrong that violated their Terms Of Service (TOS), or they have something against you (jk on that last one.)
What are the responsibilities of a Mod?
Moderators (also known as mods) ensure that the chat meets the behavior and content standards set by the broadcaster by removing offensive posts and spam that detracts from conversations.
What’s the point of being a moderator?
A discussion moderator or debate moderator is a person whose role is to act as a neutral participant in a debate or discussion, holds participants to time limits and tries to keep them from straying off the topic of the questions being raised in the debate.
Can you be Shadowbanned from a subreddit?
It’s up to moderators of a particular subreddit to decide if a user deserves to be banned. You can still visit a subreddit that you are banned in, but you cannot submit content or participate in discussions. You get shadowbanned from the entire Reddit website.
Do mods know who reported Reddit?
The bigger a sub gets the more report-spammers it seems to attract and at this point there’s no tool for us moderators to see who’s doing it. No we have to PM the admins and have them look at it and ban whoever it is.
Can you get banned as a moderator of a subreddit?
As a moderator the only thing you must enforce in your subreddit are the rules of reddit. Those are admin written and enforced, if not followed can result in a subreddit and/or its mods being banned. Can I be removed as a moderator of my subreddit?
What is Reddit doing about bad moderators?
Reddit as a site, does not interfere with moderators who set unrealistic rules for the subreddits they moderate, and does not discipline moderators who act inconsistently toward members of their own community.
How do modmoderators change the subreddits they moderate?
Moderators have a range of controls for configuring the subreddits they moderate through the “subreddit settings” page. There, they can change these settings: title: e.g., slashdot: news for nerds, stuff that matters.
Do moderators have the right to censor or mute users?
As long as these actions do not break the rules as laid out by the aforementioned content policy, moderators have every right to mute and ban users, delete comments and posts, and censor as they see fit.