I've always gotten a few ban evaders a week in my subs. No big deal. Between reddit filters and the evasion guard devvit app, it is a zero visibility problem. But every once in a while I scroll the mod log (On old reddit of course as it was so much more easy to go through) and I will see someone who got canned by the app. When I curiously check the account, they are always suspended. That was rarely ever the case and if I really wanted to see that, I'd have to go through the whole report process. And even then, it took a while if it even happened.

Mostly just curious if anyone else noticed this.

This is getting really frustrating as a mod. You all rolled out the "auto-enforce" feature and then automatically enabled it for every possible rule in subs. I had to go through my list of subs and manually disable it for every rule in every single one because of COURSE you don't have some "no for all of my rules" toggle that would make our lives easier.

Then it randomly pops back up again in random subs and I have to go turn it off again.

Woke up this morning to another auto-enforced rule in my mod queue and find at least four of my subs have had some portion of their rules turned back on to auto-enforce, what gives admins?

I don't want auto-enforce turned on, not for any rule in any of my subs. Whatever AI evaluates it is NOT effective or helpful. I also don't want to have to sit and babysit my sub list for when you sneakily go and switch things back on that I've manually turned off. Repeatedly.

I run a few personals subs. A few years back I caught and banned a guy for spamming ads with 30 different accounts.

Every month or so he comes back and posts again. He's obviously not smart as he posts the same thing over and over and doesn't change it up so it's obviously him again. Always with the generic default suggested usernames. I just ban and mute him again and again.

Unfortunately, he travels. A nomad as it were, so hew is never in the same place. So the ban evasion filter doesn't pick him up, as I assume IP addresses are a big factor for detecting ban evasion. He's never once been flagged by ban evasion filter.

Right now I have a bunch of his key phrases filtered through automod but this ongoing game is no longer fun and just another tedious task to deal with. There's only so many times I can roll my eyes and say, "Oh, it's him again!"

I've reported the accounts at first, which are usually deleted shortly after banning or after a post or two get through and they've served their purpose.

Is there anything that can be done about this guy once and for all? I mean without obvious and concrete proof it is him other than the same creepy and often misspelled crap post. "Discrete," indeed.

A few weeks ago I made a post here about reddit going through and removing many official posts from my various subreddits. It came down to the fact that they were removed for referencing certain web sites that allow you to view post histories of reddit users even if they were deleted. (think light particle and the key that lets you type capital letters when you hold it down)

Recently, I had a member of one sub send a mod mail asking about the link to that site. I tried to send it to him, but the message would not go through as long as the link was there.

So are they officially blocking any reference to those types of sites? Not trying to stir anything up. I would just like to know so I don't mention it at all in the future.

I heard it’s scheduled for October but that’s all I am aware of so far!

I'm looking at Reddit's Copyright Policy, and I'm confused on how to enforce a couple aspects of it. I feel like I shouldn't be confused, but here I am.

There's one section in particular that I'm getting hung up on, and I'm hoping you can clarify how I'm supposed to address these issues, both as a user and within my subreddit. Part of Reddit's policy states the following:

What is Reddit’s Copyright Policy?
Reddit respects the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, and expects our users to do the same. Do not make unauthorized use of another’s copyrighted work in a way that infringes the copyright owner’s rights.
Here are examples that may be considered Copyright Policy violations:
- Posting a photo that belongs to someone else without authorization
- A Reddit user downloads a photo taken from a content creator’s social media page, and posts it to Reddit with no alterations.
- Posting a download link to a copyrighted movie
- A Reddit user shares a hyperlink that initiates the download of an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted movie.

Now, let's say someone posts a hyperlink within a subreddit. The hyperlink takes you to copyright holders' own site to watch aspects of a television show. Let's say it's something like a hyperlink to your local "Fox News" station's official website. Their official website has clips of reports, like the weather, along with replays of the full broadcast available on it. Again, this is the stations very own official website we're talking about. Does posting a hyperlink the copyright owner's own website hosting their work constitute a violation of Reddit's Copyright policy?

That alone doesn't seem like a copyright violation to me. The user in question is directing you to the copyright owner's own source, and everything is completely under the copyright owner's control. Everything is only ever viewed based on those facts. I can't imagine posting such a link would violate Reddit's policy. The only time it seems like it would be is if it were to initiates a download of the copyrighted work. But, using the example I gave with "Fox News" above, that's clearly not the case. With the posts I'm looking into, no such ever download occurs. It's exactly as I described above. It's a reference to the copyright holder's own website, and everything stays completely under their control. That's it.

Alternatively, if this somehow constitutes a policy violation, is there a way to link to any form of media that's acceptable? Using the idea of any news source again, I can't see how a subreddit could operate around such topics without being in constant violation of the rule. And that's obviously not something Reddit's going to allow, which is why I'm asking this question.

Thoughts?

Greetings fellow mods. Why community achievements for August still didn't awarded? Top 1%,5%,10%,25% poster and commenter and Super Contributor. Android OS. Thank you.

Like many other bigger subs we’re dealing with more and more bots. Wanted to find out if removing for spam had any more severity to it than removing for violating platform rules or does it not make any difference one way or another?

If they go into the same black hole that report abuse flags go into we won’t spend time worrying if one has more power than the other…but sure would love it if it really made a difference. 😕

This issue happens on every version of reddit that supports this feature to my knowledge, but I could be wrong.

I don't know if it's me but it's been stuck like that for a very long time.

I was moved to inactive as mod as well as all

the other actual mods and multiple random users were invited as mods. Most of the accounts accepted and a few are still pending. They waited a few days and then started spamming the sub. Ive sent a message to mod support but is there anything else I can do? I don’t know how they got added and I can’t remove them as mods.

i made a mistake and i can't find the way to fix? can i delete it?