Reddit's moderator tools are very spartan and sometimes cumbersome to use. Toolbox is a browser extension that adds a ton of much needed features and functionality to reddit for moderators on both old and new reddit. Over the past four years of toolbox development over 20,000 mods have installed it and use it in their daily modding activities.

The full release post can be found here!

Reddit's moderator tools are very spartan and sometimes cumbersome to use. Toolbox is a browser extension that adds a ton of much needed features and functionality to reddit for moderators on both old and new reddit. Over the past four years of toolbox development over 20,000 mods have installed it and use it in their daily modding activities.

The full release post can be found here!

Reddit's moderator tools are very spartan and sometimes cumbersome to use. Toolbox is a browser extension that adds a ton of much needed features and functionality to reddit for moderators on both old and new reddit. Over the past four years of toolbox development over 20,000 mods have installed it and use it in their daily modding activities.

The full release post can be found here!

Reddit's moderator tools are very spartan and sometimes cumbersome to use. Toolbox is a browser extension that adds a ton of much needed features and functionality to reddit for moderators on both old and new reddit. Over the past four years of toolbox development over 15,000 mods have installed it and use it in their daily modding activities.

The full release post can be found here!

/r/Bristol mods have received a number of reports from users who say they’re getting ‘notifications’ from our sub when they’re not subscribed... any ideas?

Dear mods (of the realms),

I am currently writing my bachelor thesis on Reddit mods, and would appreciate it greatly if you would fill out the short (5-8 min) anonymous survey below.

https://www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollector?key=JDGW68N6U23J

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Victor Brøcker // Yourbestself

Aarhus University

Denmark

Are there any unique features you've implemented that have proven to be useful or popular? Is there a facet or characteristic of your community that stands out? Any policy choices that have worked out really well (or really tragically)? Do you allow local advertising, and if so, with what (if any) restrictions? I know this place is pretty dead, but I'd love to hear from some other mods of location-based subs.

O hi. Just figured I'd give this place a post since it's been a bit inactive :P

Just wanted to say hi and do a wellness check to make sure everyone is alive as there have been no new posts in a ?year? am I reading that correctly?!

Also, we are having a photo contest to celebrate our transition to our new home at /r/Grenada. RedditGold or some yummy Grenada Cocoa Balls to the best picture someone posts of our island community. No one has posted anything yet, so it might be the easiest RedditGold ever won!

The full release post and changelog can be found in this post on /r/toolbox.

Hi! Me and another user recently took over my city's local sub from an inactive mod and we're looking to grow it.

Have any of the mods of other city subs ever tried promoting your sub irl directly to your local community? How did you go about it?

For major Califirnia cities and regions:

https://www.reddit.com/user/BlankVerse/m/calmajorcities

For major California sports teams:

https://www.reddit.com/user/BlankVerse/m/calprosports

Plus here's one for all the US States:

https://www.reddit.com/user/BlankVerse/m/us_states

And another for all the subs I thought are useful for mods:

https://www.reddit.com/user/BlankVerse/m/moderatorsubs

Plus one for all the /AskLosAngeles-style subs:

https://www.reddit.com/user/BlankVerse/m/ask_locations

https://www.reddit.com/user/BlankVerse/m/ask_locations

So it doesn't look like the admins have planned a date for GRMD this year, but that shouldn't stop us doing it ourselves.

There's a dedicated sub for planning this is set up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/grmdplanning

https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/42jmdx/i_am_a_mod_for_california_ive_been_thinking_about/

I posted the question at /ModTalk because /ModsOfTheRealms is so dead. Please reply there.

Boy it's quiet here.

I encourage all other major city subreddits to do the same.

I was surprised there wasn't already a thread on here about these cultural exchanges taking place across realm subs. I think they were started by /r/sweden .

The idea is that each country makes a post for subscribers from the other country to ask questions about the country/culture etc. So r/RealmA subscribers comment in the r/RealmB post and vice versa. It's been very popular amongst our users in /r/Ireland.

So far we've had Sweden a few months ago, Argentina last month, Iran yesterday.

Woah, I just went to /r/sweden to check how many others they've done. Quite a few!

Seems to me they're an excellent use of reddit to spread cultural awareness and engagement. Any thoughts? Do any of you plan on doing these?

Welps.

Over the past year or so, the St Louis County Office of Emergency Management has been increasing their use of social media to provide emergency information for Storm and Tornado watches and warnings, and the like.

They realised that while they were reaching a lot of people on Facebook and Twitter, there were actually a large number of people on reddit who didn't use those platforms, so they started posting in /r/stlouis. Once we mods realised what was going on, we encouraged them to modmail us so that we could sticky the post.

These posts have been great, because members of the /r/stlouis community would report back from their locale with any additional information, and /u/stlcooem would update their post, and add comments, as the emergency progressed.

Today is the Missouri state wide tornado drill, so we decided to improve our system and we have just successfully implemented automatic stickying of designated posts. The test at 1:30pm CT was successful.

We decided that the best way to implement this was to have some designated keywords, and also restrict the auto-stickying to posts that came from the designated reddit user. Other things we took into consideration were that if a Watch were upgraded to a Warning, that it would be easy to sticky the warning simply by having them make a new post - stickying a post when one is already stickied will of course unsticky the first. We also considered the possibility that the mods might already have a sticky post up for some other reason. We decided that an emergency post was more important, and we would deal with restickying the mod post once the emergency had expired. Lastly, we decided not to worry about unstickying the post automatically, because it would be difficult to implement and require some other bot - /u/automoderator wouldn't be able to do it, and the bot would either have to parse the post to figure out when the post expired (which could change), or wait for /u/stlcooem to send a message to the bot in order to trigger the unsticky. Given that the end of the emergency has much less need for timeliness, we decided to just let the mods unsticky the posts once the emergency has expired.

One small caveat that /u/stlcooem needs to remember is that only self posts can be stickied, but that's not typically a problem.

The mods of /r/stlouis would like to thank /u/stlcooem for their help in testing the system worked in a private subreddit, and for using /r/stlouis as part of today's tornado drill.

For those interested, here's /u/automoderator code we used to do this:

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# allow /u/stlcooem to sticky official alerts
title: ["[WATCH]","[WARNING]","[DRILL]", "[ADVISORY]"]
user: [stlcooem]
set_options: sticky

/r/pittsburgh, like many realm subs, has a location rule. Perhaps predictably this has caused some unhappiness from users whose posts get removed.

My question to you is, what is your location rule and how to you apply it?

Here's ours:

1. Content/Location: Posts should be relevant to Pittsburgh.

• The subject matter must be specific to Pittsburgh, rather than be a general topic. E.g. "How do I build a computer?" would not be appropriate.
• Any post with locality/neighborhood specific audience should be relevant to the city rather than an outlying area. If it's unlikely to be of interest to someone living approximately as far outside of the city in the opposite direction, it's likely location specific and outside the scope of this sub.

/r/sdchicago

/r/sdboston

/r/stopdrinking

I thought I'd share something we're trying over in /r/kzoo - Sledding Saturdays.

We haven't had much luck with meetup days, so I thought we'd try something a little less formal - so I asked for interest and location suggestions, and created a Google Spreadsheet with dates and locations. Completely informal, and there could be times where nobody shows up - but it increases the chance that multiple redditors from the area will be able to meet up and have some fun.

I'll post an update later on in the season to let y'all know how well the experiment works.

/r/gazetteer

I made this post a while back on /r/madisonwi. Being a college town, we get an huge influx of new residents. This leads to a lot of the same questions. Creating the 101 for Madison has helped a lot with the quality of posts and in making new people feel welcome.

Also looking for some good mods to help with /r/Yankees if you're a fan. Thanks