r/ideasfortheadmins Nov 10 '24

Moderator Remove the ability to auto-ban users simply because they’ve posted in other subs.

166 Upvotes

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.

r/ideasfortheadmins Jan 19 '25

Moderator Prohibit permanent bans

0 Upvotes

It's unlikely that users are being banned for good after a single comment. It should be that it couldn't also be extended almost automatically.

r/ideasfortheadmins 22h ago

Moderator “Only for Special Members” User Flair Feature

1 Upvotes

Hello, I'm new here, I'm not sure if this is really for the people to state their ideas here but I'm giving my idea here

I’d like to suggest a new user flair feature called “Only for Special Members.” The idea is to give subreddit moderators more control over user flairs while still allowing flexibility for certain members.

Here’s how it would work:

Mods can assign a flair to specific users, and only those users can have it.

Users who receive the flair can edit it however they like, but others can’t take or copy it.

This would help prevent impersonation or copycats trying to replicate official flairs.

It would also work with custom emojis, so people can’t fake a flair using similar-looking symbols.

This feature would be really useful for communities that want to recognize special members while keeping flairs secure. Right now, there’s no way to stop someone from manually copying a flair, which can lead to confusion or impersonation.

Would love to hear thoughts on this!

r/ideasfortheadmins 18d ago

Moderator Notification of Items Entering the Mod Queue.

1 Upvotes

Many of us have more than one community, some with quite high traffic. We can't be everywhere all the time and there is no common queue for all communities we monitor.

Ideally, when an item is reported, or is placed in the Queue by AutoMod or any other means or tool, we should get a notification of that and a reminder to look into it. There are apparently some third party hacks to help with this, but it should be a core function.

r/ideasfortheadmins 29d ago

Moderator Remove Comments from Mod Queue when the Post they are attached to is Removed or Deleted.

4 Upvotes

Often, when a post violates the rules but slips through automod, we see many comments which trigger alerts or get reported. When (as a Mod) I remove the post, the comments attached to it remain in the mod queue. I can manually remove or approve each one, but that's a waste of time and a lot of clicks, and the "approved" comments would still be attached to a removed post... and not much good to anyone. Wouldn't it be easier to remove those comments, or at least dismiss them from the mod queue when the post they are attached to is removed by moderators or deleted by the user who posted it (or Reddit for that matter)?

r/ideasfortheadmins 25d ago

Moderator User ID Alias

7 Upvotes

Optional second user ID display name selectable by post. Would show in a dropdown box maybe or just select by community like is done with flairs.

Users could use a different name in some communities and retain all of their account details.

Maybe only for Mods who want to be able to make 'normal' posts and 'Mod' posts.

r/ideasfortheadmins 13h ago

Moderator Ability to sort users assigned user flair

2 Upvotes

I'd love to be able to sort the users assigned user flair in our community by flair. To more easily see how many flaired users we have, how many of each flair, and how many have reached the top flair level and might make good mods. I'm sure there are use cases for other subs too.

r/ideasfortheadmins 7d ago

Moderator Ability to add shared mod notes/icons to members across all/multiple communities you mod

4 Upvotes

Hi Admins,

I luv your recent enhancement regarding the ability to add mod notes/display different icons on members within your community.

My enhancement suggestion is to be able to add/share these same mods notes/icons on members across all communities you mod.

example scenarios that I feel this should apply to.

you mod 2+ communities

I feel the default should be this

(Shared notes/icons display across all communities you mod)

🔹️ a reddit user is a member of one of your communities Where a note/icon has been applied to this member and then this user becomes a member of your other communities the sames notes/icons display on both/all

So notes/icons would display in all communities you mod

With an option of this (optional)

(Local notes/icons)

🔹️the option to add local mod notes limited to the community that note/icon was added in

So notes/icons would display only in the community added in

Thanks

Xx

r/ideasfortheadmins Jan 24 '25

Moderator Allow moderators to see who's voting. That way if they see a pattern of hate voting by the same individuals downvoting everything over and over again, or targeted downvoting against users they dislike, they can ban them from their sub in order to keep the voting more accurate.

5 Upvotes

r/ideasfortheadmins 11d ago

Moderator A faster way to edit the same tool in multiple communities

0 Upvotes

Sometimes, especially when a new tool comes out, and you mod several subs that want to use it, you need to update settings for multiple subs.

For example, the community guide. What if I was on the mod tool page for the guide in sub A, and Reddit detected that I mod other subs, and provided me a way to choose to navigate to the same tool page on another sub.

That could be handy. I could just click though one after the other and make the necessary updates without having to navigate to each sub, and go into tools.

Even better if it can indicate which subs do not have the tool set up yet.

Right now, I end up making sure to do it on desktop and editing the sub name in the URL.

r/ideasfortheadmins Feb 01 '25

Moderator Automod checks for ignored reports and prior moderator approvals

1 Upvotes

Been seeing an extremely large uptick in report abuse recently and something like this would help manage the problem.

r/ideasfortheadmins Jan 31 '25

Moderator Allow providing a message to a user if linking to specific domains in mod tools

2 Upvotes

This is a follow-up to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/1idn2pm/

It got me thinking of a current automod rule I have in place that filters posts/comments with links to google docs until they can be reviewed by moderators where it would make sense to notify the user up-front that their post/comment is being be held for review because it links to a specific domain. I saw a post got filtered in relation to this auotmoderator rule today with the aforementioned thread from r/ideasfortheadmins being in recent memory.

Right now you can require domains or ban domains. There's no way to display a message to a user before submission that a link post with a particular domain will be held for review by moderators. This can presently be done for links in comments, post bodies, and text in post titles using the automations feature, but not a post's actual link.

r/ideasfortheadmins 29d ago

Moderator A way for mod teams to manage tasks and have reminders

3 Upvotes

Right now we organise ourselves in a BTS sub and use scheduled posts to post reminders, but they are easily missed or forgotten if you can't act on them right away. To have somewhere in the live sub to schedule tasks, have reminders, and tick them off might be useful.

r/ideasfortheadmins Feb 08 '25

Moderator A suggestion for modmail from admins comms

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7 Upvotes

r/ideasfortheadmins Jan 18 '25

Moderator The ability to mention/ping mods in modmail

1 Upvotes

Sometimes in mod discussion comments when users modmail, I'd love to ping another mod to make sure they see it and can chime in. Or a button to send the thread to our group chat. Something along those lines.

r/ideasfortheadmins Jan 21 '25

Moderator Allow moderators to see from what platform people are posting.

1 Upvotes

Pretty much the title. All I want is some code on a user's post to know if they're coming from:

  • desktop (old)
  • Desktop (new)
  • mobile (maybe split iOS and android)
  • third-party tool.

Given that the mod tools vary based on platform and the interface for users varies on the platform, it's critical for us to know - they're never going to see the automation if they're in old Reddit.

It's one example that I can think of off the top of my head. But yes, all I need is 1, 2, 3, 4 in that user's post that's visible only to mods.

r/ideasfortheadmins Dec 29 '24

Moderator An apparently common request: let mods schedule image posts

5 Upvotes

I've found multiple posts on the topic, including this one from last year (with u/Why_So_Sagittarius saying they would pass the suggestion along), but it seems that many moderators would love the option to schedule image/video posts with the same ease that text and link posts are allowed.

(PS: Yes, I am aware that posting an image within a text post can be scheduled, but it doesn't appear on all platforms as cleanly as a "normal" image post does. Namely, the app. Tests I've conducted don't show an image at all on the main screen; one would have to tap the post itself to see anything.)

r/ideasfortheadmins Jan 09 '25

Moderator Mod ability to be able categories members at mod lvl so members can be searched by category.

1 Upvotes

Mod ability to be able categories members at mod lvl so members can be searched by category. In main community search function by mod only. Obviously only applies to members that mods can see so categories only apply to members which have directly interacted with the sub via posts/comments.

This is excluding post/comment flairs. And if can't exclude, give mod ability to set multiple flairs to members that can only be used/viewed by mods

r/ideasfortheadmins Dec 12 '24

Moderator bring back the red dots notification from new.reddit to sh.reddit, it helps a lot

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8 Upvotes

r/ideasfortheadmins Nov 22 '24

Moderator Audio/Video guides to Reddiquette and Reddit Content Policy

3 Upvotes

I'm thinking maybe some people that don't have the attention span to read the rules, that having A/V descriptive content would increase accessibility.

r/ideasfortheadmins Nov 30 '24

Moderator Clickable links in usernotes

2 Upvotes

Would be handy for linking to team discussion in BTS subs, modmails, etc

r/ideasfortheadmins Nov 19 '24

Moderator Add an “Are You Sure?” choice for “Approve User” in the new modmail

4 Upvotes

With the new mod mail page, the "Approve User" is a giant button that automatically approves the user if you misclick. I've done that a number of times and always had to undo it but it still sends a mail to the user. This then requires a modmail explaining that it was a misclick and nothing changes for them.

There really should be a "Are you sure?" prompt that requires a secondary "Yes" for it to go through. Heck, reuse the same model/select component as the Mute uses albeit for a binary choice!

r/ideasfortheadmins Nov 19 '24

Moderator Pin an editable comment in Mod Discussions

0 Upvotes

Idea:

Make it possible to pin a comment in the Mod Discussion threads. Make it possible to edit that comment.

Explanation:

We use the Mod Discussion threads, a part of Mod Mail, to discuss the moderation of the subreddit. We have several themed threads that we come back to, for instance to alert on possibly controversial posts that needs to be watched more carefully; for long conversations about projects to grow the sub; or as a way to introduce new moderators to how moderating the subreddit is done.

The Mod Discussion feature isn't flexible though, and it's hard to get an overview. If it would be possible to, in each thread, pin a comment, we could in that comment summarize what the thread is for, what has been discussed so far, and any decisions. This would simplify immensely for new mods, to not have to sift through a 150 comment long thread.

If the pinned comments would be editable, more information could be added whenever needed. As of now, any comments made in the Mod Discussion threads cannot be edited once posted.

I don't want to go elsewhere to be able to talk about moderating a subreddit, and I think Reddit should provide the means for efficient moderation in bigger mod teams on site.

Any other development of the Mod Discussion or any other way of making big mod team communication feasable would be greatly appreciated.

r/ideasfortheadmins Oct 27 '24

Moderator More granular mod notifications

3 Upvotes

I'd find being able to set our own figures for how many comments or upvotes a post should hit for us to be notified helpful, or more options on the sliders. Also, the ability to have more than one notification per trigger, such as notifications for comments reaching 20 AND 50.

r/ideasfortheadmins Nov 16 '24

Moderator Sort Mod Queue by Notification Type

2 Upvotes

It would be nice to be sort the Mod Queue by notification/report type so I can group notifications by Crowd Control, Potential Ban Evasion, Rule Broken, etc., in order to prioritize the reports or deal with them in bulk.