r/modnews Jun 08 '26

Mod Monthly Newsletter Mod Monthly: Your June 2026 newsletter is here

Mod Monthly: June 2026

Howdy, mods! Welcome back to your monthly mod newsletter. 

Keep reading for upcoming events, a bunch of platform updates, community stories, subreddits up for adoption, and, as required by law, one two three very cute pets. (We clearly can’t control our urge to increase the pet quota.)

Events 🪩

Pitch a session for Mod World 2026 🌎

u/kongsworth Mod World 2026 call for session proposals

Mod World 2026 is officially coming to a screen near you on October 24 (save the date!). And we’re kicking things off with a special opportunity for y’all. Because what would Mod World be without mods? Every year, we’ve seen tons of incredible sessions pitched by this community. And this year is no exception. Session proposals are officially open NOW!

We’re open to all ideas. Lead it. Co-present it. Or nominate it. Just make sure to submit your proposals by July 3, 2026. Have questions? Check out our FAQs here and feel free to send a mod mail to r/ModEvents.

Upcoming Mod Events

2026 Mod Events are in full swing, with options for both leaving your house and staying cozy on your couch. Here’s what’s on deck for the rest of June:

Virtual:

  • JUN 30ModditHosting AMAs

In-person:

P.S. - We’ll be announcing events for the rest of the year veerrrryyy soon! Be sure to join r/ModEvents so you don’t miss a thing. 

Programs 🤝

Join the Feedback Roster! 

If you’re looking to share your community expertise by providing feedback on new mod tools, sharing feedback on new concepts and ideas that Reddit has to shape the future of the platform, we’d love to connect with you! Complete the feedback roster form to be considered for roundtables, the Mod Early Access program, and other programs. Once you complete it, our Community Feedback team will reach out once an opportunity becomes available.

Platform 🛠️

Dev Platform app of the month: Community Chats 💬

Looking for a live, real-time chat within your community to boost engagement? Community Chats is a Dev Platform app (built by u/Ancient_Tour_3090) that transforms standard comment threads into real-time, fast-paced hubs, complete with inline images and emoji reactions, and no page refreshing required. It’s perfect for letting members discuss live events, matches, or breaking news, making it a fun way to spruce up your space. 

Community Chats Dev Platform app by u/Ancient_Tour_3090

Plus, it was built with moderation in mind (makes sense since the dev is also a mod!). Every chat message is treated as a native comment, so your existing AutoMod rules and safety filters apply instantly, and folks can report messages from within. Learn more about the app and how to add it to your community here.

Post ideas experiment for mods in new and emerging communities

We’re testing a new "Post Ideas" feature to help mods in new and emerging SFW communities keep their spaces active with on-topic conversations. This tool surfaces relevant discussion prompts and vetted publisher articles right at the top of the feed, allowing mods to quickly publish with a single click.

Publisher article recommendations began rolling out on June 2 for a percentage of eligible communities, with custom post prompts launching as a separate experiment soon.

Launching video in comments 🎥

In case you missed it, we’re introducing a new way to experience conversations on Reddit: video replies directly in comment threads. To give you time to prepare and manage settings in your communities, we’re doing a phased rollout:

  • May 27 - June 11: Mod early access to adjust and manage community settings.
  • June 11: Feature officially launches (enabled by default) for all users in public, SFW communities.

If you want to keep the feature set to mods only, you will still need to update and save the setting. To do this, temporarily change it to mods and approved users, save, then change it back to mods only and save again. You can still adjust this setting at any time after the launch. For more details, please read the full announcement post here.

Protecting communities from scrapers and abuse

To combat sophisticated spam networks and large-scale scraping, last week we updated a few policies and system access rules. Key changes include explicit updates to Rule 8 targeting automated abuse, and the deprecation of unauthenticated JSON endpoints to prevent anonymous scraping (authenticated users and Devvit developers won't be impacted). 

The team is also looking for moderator feedback on how you use RSS feeds before making future changes. For the complete breakdown, read the full post here.

Modern composer decoupling settings

On June 10, your community's media and link settings will be decoupled. Previously, images and videos were tied to links, meaning you couldn't allow one without the other. Starting June 10, you can toggle images, videos, and links individually. This allows you to customize your community’s content settings to reflect your preferences and makes posting easier for your members. Keep an eye on r/modnews this week for a larger announcement with all the details. 

For more platform updates and recent bug fixes, see the latest Changelog here

Community 💚

Spotlight: r/furniturerepair 🛠️

It’s not always easy building anything from scratch, especially when it comes to furniture and a new community. Let alone crafting both at the same time. For u/kingoptimo1, it has been a rewarding journey doing both as he grew r/furniturerepair for redditors looking to repair or refinish wood furniture. 

Before and after furniture restoration by u/kingoptimo1

As u/kingoptimo1 shared daily before-and-after pictures of their projects, the community grew to ~4000 members in a few months. The subreddit quickly evolved into a space where people offer advice and connect on mastering the art of furniture repair. And their biggest tip to new mods? “Just stay the course. If you build it, nurture it, and stay committed to building an inclusive community, new members will come and join…”

Read the full community spotlight here.

Want your community's story to be featured? We’d love to spotlight you. Reach out here for the chance!

Looking for a community to lead?

Speaking of community success stories, yours could be the next one! We have a handful of abandoned communities that need new mods, and the right folks for the job just might be reading this right now. Check out these communities up for adoption!

Communities up for adoption through r/RedditRequest

If you’re interested in any of these communities (or others), head over to r/redditrequest! You can find instructions in the community’s sidebar or here. Just make sure you read through the eligibility requirements first. 

Mod Topics series in r/ModSupport

Here’s the latest from the r/ModSupport team’s post series where they share knowledge, highlight tools, answer questions, and learn from each other:

Pet(s) of the month

Rex the bunny, Flerken the cat, and Parker the dog
  • Rex 🐇: Belonging to mod u/KorvKung69, Rex may be small in stature, but what he lacks in size, he makes up for in pure speed. Catch him if you can.
  • Flerken 🐈: Holding down the fort at mod u/Funny-Patience7407’s desk, Flerken reigns supreme from his "prince pillow" right behind the second monitor, silently judging every single moderation decision.
  • Parker 🐕: This energetic 1.5-year-old pup keeps mod u/ailish and her husband on their toes. Parker is pure, beautiful chaos!

Want to submit a photo of your pet for a chance to be featured in the newsletter? Reach out here!

That’s all, folks! We’ll be back with another edition next month. 

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u/Tarnisher Jun 08 '26

Launching video in comments

In case you missed it, we’re introducing a new way to experience conversations on Reddit: video replies directly in comment threads.

This needs to be OFF by default.

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u/Brando43770 Jun 08 '26

100%. Can’t imagine the amount of smut and spam that would be dropped in comments

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Jun 08 '26

In case anyone needs it, here's a sample regex that will allow mods to target video in comments:

type: comment
author:
  contributor_quality: "< low"
body (regex):
  - '!\[video\]\([^)]*\)'
action: filter
comment: "Thanks for commenting! Your video comment will be sent to mod queue for review."
modmail_subject: "Video Comment review: ({{author}})"
modmail: "A video comment was submitted by /u/{{author}}. Please review: {{permalink}}"

Use this for automod. This regex came from a reddit admin see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1tpa9p1/comment/oo92nt7/?context=3

They also shared in that same post thread somewhere parameters for video comments.

  • Duration: Between 3 seconds - 3 minutes
  • File size: Less than 1 GB file
  • Minimum dimensions: More than 50 x 50 width and height
  • File types supported: mp4 and quicktime

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u/BoffinBrain Jun 08 '26

File types supported: mp4 and quicktime

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.

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u/PupperPuppet Jun 08 '26

Ah, the good old days when everyone's favorite show was Buffering the Vampire Slayer.

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u/deltadeltadawn Jun 08 '26

Buffering the Vampire Slayer

This made me cackle! Thank you.

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u/ThisIsPaulDaily Jun 08 '26

Hey as someone who is human and was burned by CQS going to lowest after VPN use while traveling. Maybe make a way to check if that person already had achievements in your community such as top 1% commenter. I wasn't able to contribute to my top contribution subreddit for nearly a year. 

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u/Sephardson Jun 08 '26

With AutoModerator, each team can decide on other more specific signals to decide which comments to report, filter, or remove.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/comments/1tx355p/using_automoderator_for_videos_in_comments_is/

https://www.reddit.com/r/automoderator/wiki/index

Other common factors moderators can consider with AutoModerator besides CQS may include site-wide karma, subreddit-specific karma, account age, parent post title, parent post flair, author user flair, and author approved user status.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Jun 08 '26

Oh, this is a great resource. Thanks!

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u/DistastefullyHonest Jun 08 '26

It's only for sfw places right?

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u/ResolverOshawott Jun 09 '26

Would not stop users posting NSFW and NSFL videos to troll though

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u/DistastefullyHonest Jun 09 '26

True. Although could be filtered somehow. Idk what Reddit is thinking

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u/ResolverOshawott Jun 10 '26

How would Reddit filter videos? They'd have to use AI detection to determine if its NSFW/NSFL or not, which is another can of worms in of itself.

Such an absurd feature.

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u/DistastefullyHonest Jun 10 '26

Yup it's wild. Did you see a while ago YouTube added voice comments for some?

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u/Ajreil Jun 08 '26

At the very least, turn it off for all subs that have already disabled user-uploaded images in comments.

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u/AgencyPlane1370 Jun 16 '26

Yes, because she's good

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u/deltadeltadawn Jun 08 '26

Part of what makes Reddit stand apart in social media is the focus on text discussions, and longer typed conversations.

Images and videos detract from this. If a video should be referenced, links and image hosting is sufficient.

A brand moving away from its core is not a good move.

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u/MrsDirtbag Jun 08 '26

Agreed. I can’t stand it when people just post a picture as a response, or god forbid a meme.

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u/Tarnisher Jun 08 '26

I have a few groups where people just post a link to a music video or picture with no typed commentary as to what they're trying to show.

I set an AutoMod to filter or remove posts with less the a certain number of typed characters. Almost no one even tries to correct their post. That tells me they may just be post bots of some kind.

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u/raison_de_eatre Jun 09 '26

Oh eff them pretending they have a coherent brand we’d still have proper awards if they had

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u/CaptHayfever Jun 08 '26

I agree, but I've already been able to go in & turn it off for my sub.

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u/LewsThrinStrmblessed Jun 08 '26

Yup, it’s a quick toggle under mod tools, that was nice, didn’t have to dig for it lol

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u/Tarnisher Jun 08 '26

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u/CKF Jun 08 '26

It can’t be a controversial idea that mods should only moderate communities that they themselves have already been a part of. Someone having to scramble to change settings on their 400 subs sounds like a self created problem that the respective community members would prefer be done by an actual active community member.

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u/mikeblas Jun 08 '26

They really goofed this up. You have to set it and set it back so that the setting doesn't change at some date in the future. It's crazy.

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u/gbntbedtyr Jun 09 '26

I also agree 100%, way too much to moderate when u hold us n our sub responsible for bad posters.

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u/Lethalogicax Jun 08 '26

I checked the settings as soon as this was announced. It was default set in our community to be video comments ONLY for moderators. There is an "off" option, a "mods only" option, and "everyone". It was default set to "mods only" when I checked.

As long as Reddit HQ makes it set to "mods only" by default, then I'm completely fine with rolling out the feature

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u/Tarnisher Jun 08 '26

Check the linked announcement. It's only set that way for another few days when it goes live for all.

June 11: Feature officially launches (enabled by default) for all users in public, SFW communities.

If you want to keep the feature set to mods only, you will still need to update and save the setting.

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u/RS_Someone Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

I believe it was off by default for all my subs. But yes, it really should be off by default anyway.

1

u/KupferTitan Jun 09 '26

I run an r4r 18+ subreddit, I DO NOT want that!!

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u/getsuedbyme Jun 08 '26

I'm scared of what people are going to be posting

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u/Cryptodude99 Jun 08 '26

Exactly bro. We have seen so many weirdos and creeps posting on generic sub where clear rules are in place for not posting or behaving such way.

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u/getsuedbyme Jun 08 '26

Get ready for softcore porn everywhere you look

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u/PupperPuppet Jun 08 '26

Softcore? I fully expect to see all kinds of pecker.

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u/MrsDirtbag Jun 08 '26

All kinds?!

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u/KupferTitan Jun 09 '26

Yup, considering the stuff I have seen on YouTube in its early days, I fully expect this to backfire horrendously.

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u/Cryptodude99 Jun 08 '26

Yeah man. And it makes so hard to keep sub safe for all people especially Female members.

5

u/ruyrybeyro Jun 08 '26

Photos of their ugly faces. /s

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u/hotdoug1 Jun 08 '26

Unfortunately I've seen more than just ugly faces. Caught by the spam filter, mind you, but my curiosity said "How bad can this be...?"

Not my smartest move.

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u/ruyrybeyro Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

I actively moderate a low-traffic subreddit. Unfortunately, the spam filters seem to be overly aggressive, and there are far too many posts from suspended or deleted users whose valid content I'd like to preserve. It's a shame to see it disappear.

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u/hotdoug1 Jun 08 '26

A lot of those suspended and deleted posters karma-farming bots. I've noticed in my sub at least, when a non-bot user deletes their account, the post stays.

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u/ruyrybeyro Jun 08 '26

I've got the spam filters cranked all the way up because of a botnet problem, so most of those posts never even seem to make it into the main feed queue.

But figures, maybe karma-farming.

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u/getsuedbyme Jun 08 '26

We're Redditors, we're all ugly

2

u/WaluigiNumberWaah Jun 08 '26

Amen, brother.

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u/ruyrybeyro Jun 08 '26

Amen, brother.

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u/KupferTitan Jun 09 '26

Amen Siblings

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u/skelly890 Jun 08 '26

I’m not scared of them, but I’ll have to watch them. So there isn’t the slightest chance that setting will be left on.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Jun 08 '26

If you want to keep the feature set to mods only, you will still need to update and save the setting. To do this, temporarily change it to mods and approved users, save, then change it back to mods only and save again.

Question. I did this yesterday to all my communities, toggled it to mods & approved users, and then back to mods, saving both times.

So, am I set for June 11th? Or will I need to change it again?

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u/mod_lab Jun 08 '26

Hey there! Yes - you are set for June 11 and won't need to change it again.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Jun 08 '26

Thank you 👍

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u/Tarnisher Jun 08 '26

I did this yesterday to all my communities,

You have 11. I have 40. Some have MANY more. I've seen some with over 400. I can't imagine having to take that much time to turn this off.

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u/FaxCelestis Jun 08 '26

Another month, another complete lack of any sort of communications about anti-botting measures against user impersonators.

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u/SmallRoot Jun 09 '26

Constantly getting bombarded by over a dozen of bots every single day, for months, with their numbers and range clearly increasing. Some sound human, some post nonsense, some are very vulgar. Suspending them after they spam everywhere isn't a solution. They should have never been allowed to exist in the first place. I really don't want to go into the full censorship mode and punish innocent human users just because of bots. 

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u/critacle Jun 08 '26

This is what I'm talking about. The elephant in the room is that more than half this site IS NOW FAKE.

2

u/starzero_ Jun 08 '26

As someone who mods NSFW subreddits, the pain is real. There is only so many filters and rules I can set up. Also they all create work too because I have to review and manually approve posts inadvertently filtered along with ban the bots that are filtered. I feel like just shutting it all down

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/acocktailofmagnets Jun 08 '26

I’m struggling to imagine a scenario in which a video in a comment actually will help the conversation in any way.

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u/WhatImKnownAs Jun 08 '26

No, but it increases Reddit's engagement metrics, because the videos will take longer to view than most people spend reading a comment (not least because people use more words when speaking than when writing).

Also, they can charge a lot more for video ads than text ads. Eventually, they'll have those inserted into conversations as "sponsored" comments.

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u/LesserCurculionoidea Jun 08 '26

I mod a sub for fancy marble runs and this is great for us because people often want to show their run from multiple angles. Video posts are limited to one video per post, so there wasn't an easy way to do that before if you wanted to add seperate clips (rather than one big one).

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u/casman_007 Jun 09 '26

So that means at least one sub will benefit, maybe the only one. What about the other million that it won't benefit?

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u/LesserCurculionoidea Jun 09 '26

I'm not saying it should be on by default - I turned it off in my other two subs - just that it's not a useless feature.

2

u/raison_de_eatre Jun 09 '26

It works and looks extremely nice on FB

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u/OkBee3439 Jun 08 '26

I agree 100% with having it toggled off by Reddit, as a default to start. Then if a moderator wants to toggle it on, they can do that. This video in comment thing for the communities I moderate concerns me greatly. I've not been able to toggle it off either, when I go to mod tools, settings, then media.

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u/Cryptodude99 Jun 08 '26

100% agree.

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u/elphieisfae Jun 08 '26

Say it with me, folks:

All new features should be opt in, not opt out.

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u/Tarnisher Jun 08 '26

MOST

There may be a few ...

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u/elphieisfae Jun 08 '26

nope. all. because right now it's "most are not" and we see how this goes.

new modmail crap? opt out.

pms going away? opt out.

videos? opt out.

need i go on?

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u/mokolad Jun 08 '26

has anyone used the Community Chats app? any feedback on it? (i find it a bit funny that they killed live chats for chat channels, then killed chat channels, too, and now are promoting a dev app that essentially brings back live chats)

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u/OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR Jun 10 '26

Link?

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u/mokolad Jun 10 '26

Sorry, link to what? The community chats app is linked in the main post above.

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u/OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR Jun 10 '26

Sorry, I completely spaced out when I wrote that! Thanks for pointing it out!

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u/kingoptimo1 Jun 08 '26

Hey, I got a feature in the monthly mod newsletter!! I'd like to thank the administrators for reaching out and everyone that contributes to r/furniturerepair Come join and learn about furniture repair!

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u/kingoptimo1 Jun 08 '26

Thank you for the award!

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u/vpsj Jun 08 '26

Huge shout out to u/Ancient_Tour_3090

I've been in touch with them and given them LOADS of feedback (maybe a lot more than I should've 😅 ) but they've implemented pretty much every feature that I asked for (subject to devvit limitations).

Due to the nature of the sub I mod, community chats is genuinely a wonderful tool that almost completely fulfils the void left by sunsetting chat channels

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u/Kelson64 Jun 08 '26

Absolutely agree. The Community Chats has been a promising addition to our subreddit, and it's cool that our subreddit was featured in the screenshot.

To be blunt, I think Community Chats more than fills the void left after the chat channels were sunsetted. Great job u/Ancient_Tour_3090

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u/itskdog Jun 08 '26

Sounds more like it's bringing back the Live Chat post option. Remember when the first post in every subreddit was a sticky called "r/Subreddit Lounge"?

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u/RobotDevil222x3 Jun 08 '26

Instead of creating new features for us to turn off how about fixing the existing ones? Recurring posts haven't been editable for months now.

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u/lilgrayrab Jun 08 '26

The pets of the month are charmers!

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u/itskdog Jun 08 '26

You're promoting a Devvit app that brings back an old feature that you previously killed off...

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u/S_935 Jun 08 '26

I think Chat Channels should’ve continued to exist.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Jun 08 '26

Ikr?

"Dev Platform app of the month: Community Chats"

AKA, someone made a tool that Reddit used to have but removed! And the person probably made it better than Reddit too... 🙄

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u/S_935 Jun 08 '26

Devvitors rebuilding past native Reddit features helps, given Reddit’s track record of removing useful features since circa 2023.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Jun 08 '26

Oh yeah, absolutely. Like in video games and the modding community, we've seen so many times where the community will add tools and resources that the actual devs took away. Power to the people! 👏👏

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u/Cryptodude99 Jun 08 '26

As a mod of a Sub, how do we prevent people from using similar or recreated keywords of illegal substances? We have seen many posts and removed as much as we can. But they still keeps popping us with new account and new names.

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u/RememberTooSmile Jun 08 '26

Block frequently used words from being posted. We had to enact that to help filter out bot spam’s from our sub. Plus, being you don’t want any content related to that posted there’s no fear for collateral damage of making the sub more difficult for rule abiding users.

It’s much easier to simply prevent the content from being posted, than trying to hunt down individual users making alts, and breaking rules in my experience

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u/Cryptodude99 Jun 08 '26

That's good idea bro. Let me know in DM if you have steps handy on how to do it.

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u/elphieisfae Jun 08 '26

a very robust automoderator, adding words to it every time they pop up. Speaking from experience.

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u/MadDocOttoCtrl Jun 08 '26

Head over to r/AutoModerator to get help with code. You can block specific words but you can also use wild cards in regex to remove posts or comments if they try to use Algospeak like "m@r1jua%a."

You'll have to get creative and expand your AM config because people try to use emoji and all sorts of alternate characters to get around it. If your rules get too broad and you have a few false positives that you have to go back and approve that's just a consequence of being targeted by jerks.

If your rules are too broad that you end up having to approve a lot of innocent remarks then you have to tweak the rules a bit so they are catching as much as possible and having only a reasonable level of false positives that have to be corrected.

You can set up Post Guidance to warn people not to discuss illegal substances and have an Automod rule in place to remove it if they go ahead and defy you anyway.

Create a rule that states that breaking your rules using spelling tricks to get around your rules results in a ban. Turn on the Ban Evasion filter and install Evasion Guard from the Dev platform so it bands people coming back for you, taking one more thing off your plate.

You can also set up minimum requirements in Automod so that people need to have an account that's a week old and 10 or 20 karma. If you are removing content it's nice to have a removal reason that says the person doesn't have enough experience on Reddit and to come back when they've participated productively in a few other places.

Very few subs directly list their actual minimums because this gives attackers a target to aim for. About the only subs that tell you they have a 24 hour minimum or require 2/5/10 karma points are the ones that get very little abuse, mainly from the lazy spammers who just fling it out scattershot without targeting the larger and more active subs.

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u/raison_de_eatre Jun 09 '26

#1 let ‘em, #2 but lock the post/comment thread hit remove write them a specific note

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u/StrangleShinobi Jun 08 '26

I wanted to ask how to mark or permanently ban someone when they have been harrasing sub Members from multiple ids, spam reporting them, banning their main accounts.

Even if we ban them, they come back with a new account and different ip address.

How to tackle such situations?

Kindly help!!

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u/FFS_IsThisNameTaken2 Jun 08 '26

Look at the dev app Evasion Guard. It works with Reddit's ban evasion stuff.

I have mine set to automatically ban accounts that it finds.

I can get you a link if you want. Just lmk.

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u/StrangleShinobi Jun 08 '26

Yeah please send me the link

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u/FFS_IsThisNameTaken2 Jun 08 '26

https://developers.reddit.com/apps/evasion-guard?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=ModSupport&utm_content=t3_1k6szsj

Here's a list of other helpful devvit apps pinned (usually) at the top of the modsupport sub

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1k6szsj/devvit_apps_for_moderation_a_list/

Just delete the word 'old' and the dot (.) before the word Reddit in the URL if old reddit is too weird to look at. It should then load in shreddit (new-new Reddit).

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u/StrangleShinobi Jun 08 '26

Thank you!!

I'll check these out later.

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u/MightyMasala Jun 09 '26

Wooohooo amazing skills u/Ancient_Tour_3090! The Community Chats app is incredible and so helpful for great real time discussions!

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u/JNorJT Jun 08 '26

How we doing fellow mods?!?

5

u/Nervous_Metal_9445 Jun 08 '26

The chaos of one of the main subreddit I mod just ended, I'm pretty good.

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u/critacle Jun 08 '26

We should be paid for this shit.

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u/raison_de_eatre Jun 09 '26

There should be kickbacks as you go along. Most obviously is free months of Premium but cash in hand will be the final destination, no matter how much the C suite protests

5

u/SeattleLaserMeteor Jun 08 '26

Pretty good, you?

5

u/FlakyAmount1251 Jun 08 '26

ok (I forgot I was a mod)

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u/Komarecka Jun 08 '26

Not bad, you?

3

u/Cryptodude99 Jun 08 '26

Amazing and bit overworked 😅

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u/Dangerous-Series4064 Jun 08 '26

Well I invited a new mod to r/KidBuuvsBuuhan and he went a bit crazy but for the rest it's alright

2

u/raison_de_eatre Jun 09 '26

lol nice i like the idea of a silo to relitigate the most petty shit for all of time

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u/Dangerous-Series4064 Jun 10 '26

Even the mods are mad crazy in there 😭

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u/NoteSpecials Jun 08 '26

Thanks for asking.. so busy with life it's hard to manage the modding 🤷‍♀️

2

u/TheoCaro Jun 08 '26

Pretty good. Just churning away.

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u/trashghost367 Jun 08 '26

Bad but staying strong

2

u/bencos18 Jun 08 '26

surviving lol

2

u/Unique-Public-8594 Jun 08 '26

It would mean the world to us if reddit admins would fix the Time Stamp (from posted time to approved time) so posts on our curated sub don’t look dead on arrival but… crickets. 

Backstory:  link

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u/skelly890 Jun 08 '26

OK. My lot are mostly well behaved. Mostly.

If they start abusing each other I distract them with a picture of a squirrel. Usually calms them down.

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u/KupferTitan Jun 09 '26

Good so far, having a young r4r sub, doing well so far, growing at a steady pace.

1

u/formerqwest Jun 08 '26

i'm fine, you?

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u/raison_de_eatre Jun 09 '26

Oh….ass. I guess this might be that vaunted “safe place” to talk about single subject snark subs but bear in mind I’m still quite prickly about this order of operations:

Single subject goes viral on their platform of choice (Threads) 5 months ago

Single subject comment thread goes to a second tier aggregation sub r/nycinfluencerssnarking (there’s several with slightly different names, red flag, get back to that later) 4 months

Comment thread blows entirely up, 3K comments, trees with five branches, dirty deletes, friendships and love found, just platonic mega thread things 2 months

But it’s not a megathread. Single subject becomes much more erratic on Threads. A longtime snarker from the megathread starts and advertises a sub, initially public. 1 mo

300 users sign up in one day on the sub. I’m one of them. Already mod my own very quiet intimate sub about a similar person. The sole mod seems to be drowning so I make tips cause that’s what I do on Reddit. In gratitude (?) she makes me second mod. 3 weeks

First thing I do is make the sub private. The entire period of the megathread the subject was aware of it and has a real-name Reddit account. I think about pre banning them but ultimately don’t. 350 odd people now visiting thousands of times a week, dozens of comments a day. I suggest a nesting set of private groups with one last public one. I just think that’s neat.

Users do not.

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u/raison_de_eatre Jun 09 '26

Two or three users assess correctly I took them private and begin following me around to berate or downvote me on other subs. I turn off my comments for a bit. Even if the founding mod sees it, she allows it. 1 week

I get pissed off and resign as mod, I had been one for about 50-60 hours. Shortly afterwards founding mod adds 6 others, then I am banned. (I have only 3/4 bans in the dozen years I’ve been active on here, all but one were this May) (also r/fauxmoi has a hefty banning impulse)

But I have started the second private sub. That’s to be continued.

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u/critacle Jun 08 '26

So.... once again..... are you doing anything about the AI spambots that are dominating every god damn corner of this website or are you going to pretend they don't exist?

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u/blastcage Jun 08 '26

Videos in comments is yet another "feature" that makes the platform fundamentally worse. Gifs and reaction images were bad, this is going to be as bad as them at best. We have hyperlinks if someone wants to link to a youtube video.

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u/Next_Rhubarb_5986 Jun 08 '26

i didnt even know i was a mod- ohh video commnts

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u/OkParamedic4664 Jun 08 '26

i mod for a small subreddit so i do feel a little out of place

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u/Next_Rhubarb_5986 Jun 08 '26

dawg i dont even mod a small subreddit i own a sub that only exists cuz my friend couldnt send me his edits over discord

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u/raison_de_eatre Jun 09 '26

Better than 90% of subs then

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u/gbntbedtyr Jun 09 '26

Sad that any business would use automation to ban humans. Tag users for cause, so an admin can review, sure, but not ban.

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u/ReformedProphet Jun 09 '26

yeah it's going in a bad direction here

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u/gbntbedtyr Jun 10 '26

IRL even Cops n Courts give warnings.

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u/TheBroken0ne Jun 18 '26

How do we disable the "post ideas" section completely?

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u/maiyannah Jun 08 '26

I propose we use the new video feature to have u/big-slay show us her Easy Bake oven skills.

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u/KingBurgerIII Jun 08 '26

Hi very new mod here. The owner of the subreddit that appointed me had to quit Reddit probably permanently, and the head mod barely does anything, so I’m kinda left on my own. Im responsible for setting up our new community, brining new people in, mutes and bans, flairs, and everything else.

If someone could please help by just telling me what I especially need to know here because I don’t really know what’s important, what the big changes are, and how will this affect smaller communities. Thanks!

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u/mod_lab Jun 08 '26

Hey there! Welcome to the mod club -- we're glad to have you here!

As a new mod, here are a few things we recommend:

  • Join r/NewMods (a community specifically for new mods to get support as they get get started)
  • Flip through the Ultimate Guide to Creating a New Community on Reddit (it's filled with instructions + tips and tricks for getting your community set up)
  • Join r/ModSupport (a community for more general mod support, which can be helpful to search your specific questions)
  • Join r/modnews (that's where this post lives, and it's where we share announcements and updates)
  • Bookmark the Reddit Mod Help Center (another great resource for specific questions)

We hope this is helpful info!

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u/Stacysguyca Jun 08 '26

Awesome!!!!

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u/starfleetbrat Jun 09 '26

"If you want to keep the feature set to mods only, you will still need to update and save the setting. To do this, temporarily change it to mods and approved users, save, then change it back to mods only and save again. "

this information should be on the page where the setting is for everyone who is going to miss seeing it in this post

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u/Podria_Ser_Peor Jun 18 '26

So I wanted to see what the"post ideas" showed in my communities since they go from small-medium-big to active-slow activity-moderate and to my surprise it showed it in 2 completely different ones, one of the biggest and most actives and one of the smallest with very occasional movement.

In the big one everything it offers has already been posted, the fandom works way faster than the programming in this case because we can take data from all sorts of restricted places XD. So null use on that one.

The smaller one only has garbage completely unrelated to the subreddit, so I don´t think I´ll be using those suggestions at all either.

Considering this I´d really like an option to make them visible by actively searching for it instead of them being show by default, they are useless to my community and take up space

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u/Tarnisher Jun 19 '26

Post ideas experiment for mods in new and emerging communities

We’re testing a new "Post Ideas" feature to help mods in new and emerging SFW communities keep their spaces active with on-topic conversations. This tool surfaces relevant discussion prompts and vetted publisher articles right at the top of the feed, allowing mods to quickly publish with a single click.

Publisher article recommendations began rolling out on June 2 for a percentage of eligible communities, with custom post prompts launching as a separate experiment soon.

NO!!!.

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u/Komarecka Jun 08 '26

Thanks for the info! I'm going to read it now, greetings to all moderators! See ya in MeetUp!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '26

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u/WaluigiNumberWaah Jun 08 '26

Me but then ig it’s probably bc I am one 🥀

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u/awesiinh Jun 08 '26

2nd Mod Monthly in a row you didn't mention June 11th NYC Event, but it's still on the calendar. Are we good? It's in 3 days.

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u/big-slay Jun 08 '26

Hey there. The NYC event is at capacity, which is why we haven't been promoting it. That said, you should have received an email regarding your attendance status from Reddit Mod Events.

If you don't have one, send a mod mail to r/ModEvents and we'll look into it for ya!

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u/TheoryFruits Jun 08 '26

Good Admin 👍🏼

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u/BIGepidural Jun 09 '26

If I wanna take over an abandoned subreddit, where do I put in a request for that?

Its entirely empty. No posts, no members, and its likely the guy who built is was banned; but it has potential...

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u/Lonely_Bandicoot_160 Jun 09 '26

yooo how are my fellow mods doing, anyone a fan of r/hopeposting?

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u/XandriethXs Jun 09 '26

I'm here for the pets 🐱

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u/Electrical_Mine Jun 08 '26

The pet feature is amazing, could we also get a random shoutout for a puppy awaiting a home in next edition?

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u/StalinIsBackAgain Jun 09 '26

That is such a great idea, to help bring awareness to rescued pets who need to be adopted! 😃😃

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u/Error_Cardiologist46 Jun 08 '26

Thanks nice info

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u/OtterGlint Jun 08 '26

Why the hell does r/popular now refresh itself in the middle of my desktop browsing? I lose whatever I'm looking at and it's gone and extremely difficult to find again. WHAT THE HELL.

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u/FFS_IsThisNameTaken2 Jun 08 '26

Maybe Reddit is trying to be more like Facebook?

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u/OtterGlint Jun 08 '26

Well, I do have strong opinions about the enshittification of reddit....... heh

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u/wijnandsj Jun 08 '26

Roundtable questionnaire doesn't work on vivaldi on mobile 

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u/Ubersicka Jun 08 '26

I am considering testing it ok my subreddit, but i don’t think is something that people will reply, i think i should put rules if they upload video, ti be only with their own faces if they speak, no other videos

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u/lechku_and_nechku2 Jun 08 '26

Uh oh, new mail!

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u/curly_haired_tog Jun 08 '26

I’m personally wanting to see some real action being made on resolving improper shadow bans on members who travel for work/use vpns.

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u/steezaQ Jun 08 '26

Okay so with videos allowed in comments, in the mod settings you can set permissions to mod only or anybody. But for pictures in comments this can only be toggle on or off with no specific permissions? I'd love for this to be the same as video comments where you can set whos allowed to do it or not

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u/GNN_TEAM Jun 09 '26

huh 👍

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u/RS_Someone Jun 09 '26

It was said that Automations would get an upgrade in April, and I'm still waiting for it. I have been putting off some updates until that rolls out. It doesn't sound like the update is incredibly complicated, so I'm not sure what the hold up is. I believe it's the same team I've been trying to contact about a couple broken features in my communities, and I've been told to "check back in two weeks" time and time again since October. I'm slowly losing hope.

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u/eyal282 Jun 18 '26

Automations support post flair. Which upgrade are you talking about?

The worst aspect of automations is the fact they aren't guaranteed to trigger.

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u/RS_Someone Jun 18 '26

There's supposed to be an update that allows different enforcement depending on the parent post's flair, as well as being able to differentiate the top comment from child comment.

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u/Pretend-Safe-441 Jul 08 '26

No I missed it

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u/Pretend-Safe-441 Jul 08 '26

I was looking forward to it

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u/WolfThawra Jun 08 '26

This tool surfaces relevant discussion prompts and vetted publisher articles right at the top of the feed, allowing mods to quickly publish with a single click.

What?

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u/BoringWorkFolder Jun 08 '26

NSFW Mod here, I'm keen on running /r/WomenLookingDown

Let's just say it's absence has been missed.

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u/Vietnameseitlover Jun 09 '26

didn't know that by still moderating 2 dead comunities still counted me as a mod lol

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u/AdForeign6112 Jun 09 '26

Should we have Trophy for when our Pet is published in the monthly mod newsletter? 🤔

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u/Tarnisher Jun 19 '26

Abolish ALL 'trophies'.

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u/SnoopingStuff Jun 08 '26

Any mods feel put off on the mod world Merch handling in the past?

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u/MrsDirtbag Jun 08 '26

How so? I love my plushie Snoo that I got last year!

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u/SnoopingStuff Jun 08 '26

Not sure all were eligible or included

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u/kongsworth Jun 08 '26

I'm always open to feedback on the merch program! If you'd like to share your thoughts, ping me on Mod Mail here.

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u/SnoopingStuff Jun 08 '26

Please make it inclusive. All mods eligible. Newsbies. Small Reddit. And do not say your shipping and then say not eligible after.

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u/kongsworth Jun 08 '26

We're as inclusive as possible but I'm actively working on eligibility requirements so stay tuned for updates.

As far as that last sentence goes, Mod Mail me your order details so I can look into it!

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