r/modclub • u/Tarnisher • Feb 10 '26
5 Mods, Over 1,900 Communities and they won't answer messages
Between 5 Mods, they have over 1,900 communities and none of them will answer a ModMail or direct message. Why?
Yes, two have well over 500 each and others are in the 300-400 range, mostly celebrity picture groups, some adult in nature.
I asked for one very low volume one that aligns with another group I have and none of them, not one even had the courtesy to acknowledge the inquiry in any way, even to tell me to go away.
No, of course, they're not required to respond, but why completely ignore such a question?
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u/OkBee3439 Feb 10 '26
It seems that you do participate in the communities you moderate, as I do in my communities, which is what mods should be doing. It's when people have over 100 communities or they open a succession of new ones, then abandon them that quality of that community suffers.
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u/eatmyasserole Feb 10 '26
These kind of numbers make me question why my RedditRequest was rejected.
The mods arent active, they allow a ton of spam, it's a small sub, its directly relevant to my life, it would be only like my 9th subreddit, annnd I was given no real reason as to why my request was rejected.
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u/SD_TMI Feb 10 '26
with the too big to fail rules over traffic limits an account can mod
I'd expect that collectors will also see some restrictions in the future.
I can' imagine a person being effectively managing anywhere near that level of subs.
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u/GaryNOVA Feb 10 '26
1000 subs like people do is ridiculous. That should be banned. But I moderate 17 rather large subs and I do it proficiently. My mod queues and unread mod mail is always empty.
I’m nearing my limit though where I can still do it well.
There’s gotta be some kind of happy medium between the two.
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u/SD_TMI Feb 10 '26
It's all about balance.
Collecting subs is just silly and wrong minded for a person to do
I work the subs I have interests in and the topic knowledge to share.But that's different than playing a numbers game, I can't imagine doing that.
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u/GaryNOVA Feb 10 '26
I certainly know of a lot of moderators who are lead mod and don’t do anything at all in their sub. They have it just to have it.
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u/SD_TMI Feb 11 '26
u/GaryNOVA we all know that there's absent mods that sit and squat on a community.
This is baked into the site with it's earliest rules set for mods.But that's not "collecting" subs.
This is a user that gets added to multiple teams and can't do anything due to the numbers of traffic or... their collections of subs are all basically "dead" real estate and they're just sitting there ... squatting.
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On the dark side of things I'd be concerned (if I was a admin) that these collections are being used for bots to build histories and karma with
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to leverage with content (by use of bots) to influence AI and google search results by having "fuzzy" repeat content being posted so as to influence the above results and thereby sway people that use these services.
I just got another self identified marketing company that wanted to create a partnership for our allowing content in one of my communitie$$$ (reported)
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u/Tarnisher Feb 10 '26
I checked the two with over 500 and none of them are scrambled/reclaimed.
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u/SD_TMI Feb 10 '26
I think the admins will address this in time... so that there's some form of limit placed on max subs you can have full mod privileges in.
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u/OkBee3439 Feb 10 '26
I personally think that if one is the moderator of a community one should be actively participating in it to keep the community functioning and in a good place. There can truly be no way anyone could be doing a good job moderating hundreds of communities. On the other new sub end, I know of one person who started a string of new communities, crossposted from other subs to get their content, recruited other moderators, then moved on to create other new subs, abondoning the earlier ones. This also is not a good practice.
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u/Tarnisher Feb 10 '26
I personally think that if one is the moderator of a community one should be actively participating in it to keep the community functioning and in a good place.
I have about 30. Some solo, some with CoMods. Some think that's too many. Most of them are small, a few posts a week at most and there isn't much to do.
But I check he ModQueues several times a day and deal with what's necessary. There are a few I post on quite a bit. Others I answer questions or provide information. I have some AutoMods setup up to deal with common problems.
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u/GaryNOVA Feb 10 '26
We do this for free and not everyone is as enthusiastic about moderating as I am. Some subs won’t have anyone into moderating the way they should. I always have at least 2 mods in each sub that are actually great at moderating.