Posts removed by moderators are still readily available to anyone on Reddit in the comment history of the moderator who flagged it-complete with an explanation of the rule it violates-or to anyone who retained a direct URL to the post. But images or links within that post don’t actually disappear. Across Reddit, when a moderator removes a post, the post is unlisted from the subreddit’s main feed. This probably wasn’t a problem just on his subreddit. The moderator’s entire history becomes this giant list … of everything they’ve removed and for what reason. But even after Williams removed offending posts from his subreddit, they were, somehow, still viewable in his account’s comment history. On r/RoastMe, those moderator-created rules outlaw posting pictures of someone without their permission or of people under 18, for instance. Moderators set their own rules for what is postable in their own forums but also play a role in enforcing Reddit’s content policy. Those communities are kept on-topic (and in theory, consistent with Reddit’s content policies), mostly thanks to human volunteers and automated bots, collectively referred to as moderators or “mods.”Īs a moderator, Williams tends to a garden of posts and comments, a process that includes removing posts that break subreddit rules. Per 2020 numbers, 52 million people visit Reddit’s site each day and peruse some three million topic-specific forums, or subreddits. The ghosts of posts he had attempted to remove were still there. But about a year ago he was surprised by something in his own comment history. It’s hard to shock Collin Williams, a volunteer moderator for r/RoastMe, a comedic insult forum with 2.3 million members.
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