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

This month’s edition has it all: upcoming events, platform updates, community stories, memes, and, as required by law, one very cute pet. 

Events 🪩

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 April, May, and June:

Virtual:

• APR 10 – – India

• APR 14 – – User Satisfaction

• APR 24 – – Movies & TV 🎬

• MAY 6 –  

• MAY 29 – [Q2] 

• JUN 30 – – Hosting AMAs

In-person:

• MAY 13 – – Chicago

• JUN 11 – – New York

• JUN 27 – – London

Get the entire calendar , and be sure to join so you don’t miss a . 

Platform 🛠️

Dev Platform app of the month: Image Post Scheduler

Made by mod and developer , is a Devvit app that lets mods schedule native image posts on Reddit, with support for image previews in feed, optional body text, and flair selection. It’s a handy way to plan ahead without relying on third-party image hosts or manual posting. Read more about it from the creator .  

Now available: Adult Content Promoter Filter

This week, we rolled out a new Safety Filter to help SFW communities stay more in control of unwanted or stealthy adult content promotion. The Adult Content Promoter Filter helps identify users who promote adult content anywhere on Reddit and filters their content for your review (or removes it from your community altogether). It’s available now in Safety Filters under Mod Tools, and you can get more details in the announcement here.  

Introducing the new App label

Last year, shared a : a place that stays human at its core, even as the internet around us becomes increasingly driven by AI and slop. A few weeks ago, he shared a major step toward that future with the rollout of a new App label, making it clear when posts or interactions are coming from accounts that use automation in allowed ways (aka “good bots”). Read the full announcement , and if you’re a developer with technical questions, check out our in .

Mod Alumni and Advisor roles

Want to support community moderation outside of the core day-to-day team? The new Alumni and Advisor roles are officially here, and help give you new ways to be connected to a mod team. Learn more about these roles and how to request, apply for, and grant them .

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

Community 💚

How four communities made a comeback

The best comeback stories aren’t just in Hollywood; they’re on Reddit. 😎 Four once-inactive communities found new mods through and were brought back to life. Curious how? Dive into these community spotlights for the tips and tools mods used to revive and grow their communities.

Looking for a community to lead?

Speaking of adopting communities… we’ve got a handful of unmoderated communities in need of new mods, and the right people for the roles might be reading this right now. 👀

If you’re interested in leading a new community, check out a few we’re spotlighting this month: , , and . (TIL opossum = trash cat)

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

Only on Reddit: finger pointing meme

A few weeks ago in , a redditor what the line on their walls was, pointing to it in every picture. And let’s just say, the community ran with it. People started using the pointing hand as a sticker across various posts to “correct” images, like and , and also . The meme took on a life of its own, and then got the ultimate nod on March 30, when (some very inspired) Reddit admins turned the cursor in into the iconic hand for 24 hours. You can see it in action and below from the perspective of the pointing hand celebrity themselves. A bit that clearly got out of hand (in the absolute best, only-on-Reddit kind of way).

Mod Topics series in

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

Pet of the month: Oliver 🐾

Owned by mod , Oliver is orange, adorable, and in love with whipped cream.

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

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

Hi there, mods! 

Today we’re rolling out a new Safety Filter that many of you have been asking for, and I’m excited to say is finally here: the Adult Content Promoter Filter. This filter helps keep safe for work communities free from unwanted adult content promotion by identifying users who likely promote adult content elsewhere on Reddit, and either filtering their posts or comments in your community, or removing them outright, before they’re ever seen. 

It’s important to note this tool is filtering based on the user and not the particular piece of content they might be posting in your community, so it could catch seemingly innocuous comments or posts and that’s by design. Some promoters use SFW posts or comments as a way to point people back to their NSFW profile and there are spaces that want to keep their communities more than a click away from adult content. We understand that’s not always the case, though, so keep reading to find out if this filter is actually right for you! 

How it works
To turn the filter on, visit Account Filters under Safety Filters. From there, you can choose , including: 

• What gets filtered: you can apply the filter to posts, comments, or both

• What happens to filtered content: you can either send it to Needs Review or Removed

• The strength of the filter based on your community’s comfort and norms.

The Moderate setting will filter less users with more precision, meaning we have a high confidence that what gets filtered will be from adult content promoters. The High setting will filter more users, but with potentially less precision, which might mean there are some users whose content gets filtered even though they aren’t an adult content promoter. 

Who it works for
This filter is really meant for SFW spaces. We piloted this filter with about 80 communities the past few weeks and saw some really promising results. First of all, almost every single mod who turned the filter on in their communities kept using the filter throughout the 3 week test. Of the content filtered to Review, only a small percentage got restored or approved by mods, which is also a great sign. When we dug into some of the pieces of content that got restored, we found we could actually verify that most of it was from users who promoted adult content elsewhere, even if the specific post filtered wasn’t promotion. That confirmed something we’d heard from at least a few mods in the pilot program: in some cases mods restored content because they’re open to really anyone, including adult content promoters, participating in their community as long as they’re contributing in positive ways (so non-offensive or non-spammy content).

That feedback is already leading to an additional feature we’re working on including in the next month or so. 

What’s next

While the filter works well as-is for some communities, we heard others need more flexibility. Because folks who create adult content elsewhere are welcome in some spaces as long as they’re not promoting it, we’re working on adding a way to allow-list users. 

We’ll update everyone when that feature is available. Until then, try out the filter and as always, we’ll be here to answer questions. 

I’m back with a final update on limits for moderating high-traffic communities (previous updates , , and ). Effective today, moderators can no longer moderate more than 5 communities with over 100k weekly visitors. 

Moderators who have exceeded these limits have the following options: 

• Become an moderator in one or more communities

• Become an in one or more communities

• Leave the mod team of one or more communities 

You can view all the communities you moderate and whether they count towards these limits, on your page. On Android or iOS apps, tap "Manage" on the sidebar to view this page.

If you exceed the moderation limits, here’s what you can expect: 

• You will not be able to accept new moderator invites in communities with over 100k weekly visitors

• You will receive a notification from alerting you that you are out of compliance and detailing your options. You will have 30 days from the date of that message to adjust your mod roles or leave communities in excess of the limit. 

• On day 31, if you are still moderating more than 5 communities with over 100k weekly visitors, we will remove you as a moderator from select communities until you are within the limit. 

Communities you moderate with fewer than 100k weekly visitors do not count towards these limits and are not impacted. 

New: Advisor and Alumni Roles 

We’ve also started rolling out the new Advisor and Alumni roles. These roles are now available on iOS and Android apps, and on web for some users. This should be available for everyone on all platforms by the end of the week.

• An Alumni role is appropriate for former moderators with no active connection to the day-to-day operations of the subreddit, but whose past contributions to the community should be recognized. The Alumni role has no mod permissions but preserves your name on the mod list with an “Alumni” badge. 

• An Advisor role is appropriate for moderators that don’t actively moderate the community, but advise the active moderator team and need to see behind-the-scenes to have the context necessary to give good advice. The new Advisor role comes with several read-only permissions and also provides communication pathways (for example, the ability to leave moderator notes) to advise the active mod team.

  • For moderators that applied for an Advisor exemption for Mod Limits, we will automatically transition you into an Advisor role for that community later today.

  • Advisors are currently unable to view removed posts and comments. This ability will be added in the coming weeks. 

Communities in which you hold an Advisor or Alumni role do not count towards your moderator limits. 

Any active moderator with Everything permissions can grant an Advisor or Alumni role to any moderator below them in the moderator list.

Please note that once a role has been granted, it can not be removed - a moderator would have to leave and rejoin a community to change roles in the community. Before making these changes, it's considered a best practice to discuss with the whole mod team.

To grant a new role on desktop, go to Mods and Members in your Mod Tools, hover over the moderator you want to edit and click the pencil icon. Then assign the requesting mod to the desired role, either Alumni Mod or Advisor.

On mobile, go to Mod Tools > Moderators > Editable tab > tap overflow menu (...) > assign role. 

For more information on these roles and the related permissions, please see the

If you have any questions, please let us know in the comments.

Edit: Added directions to "Manage" page for app users.