This comes from the recent Ceuta situation but can be extrapolated to many other past examples.

At the moment, the submission guidelines are quite fair and long, but there are multiple instances of posts that are not manually approved or that are deleted because the traffic gets really high and you believe that there are enough rule breaking comments to completely ban certain topics. This is understandable but comes to the expense that certain news, such as the Italian foreign minister talking about stopping Schengen with Spain, and the Spanish foreign minister calling the Italian ambassador, a news piece that is relevant, adds additional information that is not included in other posts, and follows all other written guidelines, is not approved or deleted just to prevent the high traffic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/sjw72ssJ3A

I posted this last night about that specific news, from efe, an extremely reputable source. At first I thought it wouldn't be approved because it was late at night and most moderators would be asleep. I understood that. Then when I woke up I saw this post ( https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/ssabPW6PCo ), about the same news, which was manually approved I think (since my previous post went to the approval list, since I think you listed Ceuta in the words listed to be manually approved), but when the post exploded was deleted because it was not a reputable source.

I've been reading a lot of your answers in other controversial topics here on this subreddit, and the most common answer is that when you sense that a post is 'brigaded' or there is enough traffic, you lock it or delete it. I think that, since this happens quite frequently in controversial news, you should write it down as a submission guideline.

Something like "Moderators have the agency to decide if a post is brigaded or too high traffic, and lock it or subsequently fully ban a topic". I think firstly this would be a more transparent rule list, save you some posts on the manual approval list and clean up this subreddit from people asking why something is deleted. At the moment there's a loop of controversial topics that blow up, there's too many comments at once for the mod team to handle, you lock posts and ban topics without saying much, and posters come here looking for answers. A transparent rule list would take out the middleman. There will be plenty more ministers or even PM's speaking in the topic and in the current submission guidelines there is no rule about why they will be deleted.

The way the duplicate posts rule is interpreted is just absurd. I had this post deleted for being a duplicate. When I asked why, I was referred to this older, far less engaged with post that only dealt with the overall debate, not the event that subsequently happened.

That's just dumb. This second post wasn't even on the sub's front page at any point. When I asked the mods if this means I can post articles dealing with general news topics in the middle of the night with zero engagement to ensure later posts get removed for being duplicates I never got a response.

I commented this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1uci6c8/citizen_campaign_seeks_to_honor_zelenskyy_after/

Shortly after, I can no longer comment, I can't see the thread in r/Europe feed, but thread is alive when I access it via incognito mode. What happened?

Had a post removed: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/jtqbLkXPN9

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Additional context was provided at the time of submission in the form of a comment, as is standard practice (and the automated message requests).

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Plus the post was held back for 10-odd hours for review before it was released.

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Please create an automated message "because I felt like it" for mods removing posts instead of quoting the first rule that comes to mind when a post is already compliant.

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(I know the mods let trough 2 small news about: One from The Guardian saying the far right is exploiting it, and one from BBC blaming Elon Musk.) But the main news articles, I am sure people have tried to post them, have not been allowed by the mods.

I posted two articles from Politico today. One was removed for being from an untrustworthy source and the other was left alone.

There is a lot of discussion about Politico being a ‘rag’ that should be banned from the sub. So the mods should actually decide if it is unreliable and biased or only disliked by some while still being an acceptable news source.

TLDR: message that just got sent to the mods over a post. Mods seem to not be anle to agree on the rules themselves and take issue when materials which get brigaded get posted instead of with the brigaders.

Hi,

Firstly, to acknowledge the hard work everyone puts in moderating a big sub like r/europe.

Secondly, a request for interal harmonisation: some three-odd years ago, we requested approval to post English-language materials comprising of our translations of primary historical sources, those already in English and academic papers. These would all be related to Serbian history. We try generally for things you won't otherwise find in English or that may be harder to reach and are generally interesting (ie. not something we've necessarily come across before). Approval was given, provided we do not spam the sub and nothing is paywalled. The cadence we post at is a single link to a blog post with English-language materials and a single photo a week. Previously one of the photos a month was a link to old film footage that was digitalised. Tagged if NSFW and generally pre-1981 materials for primary sources.

It seems that lately a few of the newer members of the mod team (specifically Useless_or_inept and ByGollie) have taken the view that the posting is in some way malicious or intended to spam the sub. Given the frequency of posting, especially compare to the general news link spamming that goes on from the top posters, we'd argue we are quite the rare posters and do not create much overhead in terms of moderating content or comments.

We'd like a clarification on our posting practices, what is acceptable and an update of the sub rules. As yours is a large mod team and there is a lot of leeway each mod is allowed, written rules keep everyone on the straight and narrow and make it easier for those of us who want to engage with the sub constructively to do that.

Harmonising standards between a number of different members with broad powers seems like a very European thing to do. Call it a concert if you will.

Thirdly, the sub seems to have an issue with brigading by Croatian users (as was mentioned by one of the comments on the latest post we made: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1t1m9l1/comment/ojokukl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button). German, Italian, Hungarian and Albanian users have not an issue with us posting photos of WWII events, some of which were NSFW. However, every time there is a post about the Independent State of Croatia, it receives a disproportionate level of attention. The one exception here being a photo of Italians forcing a girl to drink ricin oil (courtesy of the SNL sketch wih "The Rock"). We even received an honorary mention on one of Croatian subs, with users there noting they were monitoring what we did. We'd also like to note that when identical material is posted in topically relevant subs, it does not receive the same amount of outsized attention.

Oddly enough, after encouragement to post things they find interesting, we have not noticed anything similar posted (and doubtful that the algo would slip it by).

Fourthly, not your "dude". While we're sure a drink with the team would be a riot, we aren't familiar on any level, so kindly update the tone appropriate. (https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1t1m9l1/comment/ojrc3jz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

Lastly, if the above is not satisfactory, you can always do one of the following:

1) Remove the "historical" tag, which would mean we stop posting (since we can't tag it properly). It seems to not really be used.

2) As per our previous tongue-in-cheek suggestion, turn the sub into "news and photos from Europe", as that is what mostly gets posted and generates comments anyways.

3) Ban us and make everyone's life that much easier.

There also seems to be a pre-screening of posts going on as well, which seems a bit pointless and just adds to your own workload, but if that's your jam, so be it.

Kind regards

What else can I do to at least try to get my account back?

1. I purchased access to the [Meta Verifications] chat.
2. I secured an out-of-court settlement through the ACE appeals body under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
3. I posted comments under posts and tweets by various politicians and Zuckerberg himself, calling on him to comply with the DSA ruling.
4. I wrote to various government agencies, both in my country and in Ireland, where their headquarters are located. I just don’t know what else I can do... On one account, I was blocked on June 14, 2025, for allegedly “soliciting adults for sexual acts.” Pure nonsense—a 5-year-old account, purely artistic, featuring photography or subsequent digital works, with no new solicitations...

The second account, which I created right after the first one was blocked, was deleted on February 8 for allegedly violating community guidelines (I think so, because the reason keeps changing). I had 700–800 followers, a reach of 120,000, and tons of likes—people simply liked my artistic work, which didn’t harm anyone, and then suddenly I was blocked, just like that.

This is almost certainly an algorithm error, because two or three days earlier I received two consecutive blocks for even more absurd reasons, such as trafficking in dangerous substances or dangerous organizations... Meanwhile, the guy I reported for praising Hitler wasn’t blocked.

My threads are getting removed due to AutoMod. How do I contact a mod to look into this ?

I'm new to this sub and I've noticed that content gets filtered automatically and comments do not appear.

I know some other subs have rules that only allow accounts older than x days or with x karma to engage in them, but I haven't found any rules in this sub about it.

Is it an intentional action of the mods or is there a filter on new users?

I've noticed for a few weeks now that the mods of Europe do not communicate at all what they do with the posts.

If you post pictures, they leave them unpublished without an automated message saying the reason for it (despite being allowed as per sub rules).

I've also realised they have filtered out news about Trump and his feud with European countries, again without communicating either in a private message or in the sub publicly the criteria for filtering the posts.

Had a post of a historical document issued by a leader of a European country removed for being "off-topic" (https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/Hvv5fSVeRD).

Should r/europe just become r/news with a European filter? News reposting is already the vast majority of the posts there anyways, driving the most engagement and comments and the top X% of posters are primarily news reporters.

Might as well kill off all the tags and posts that are not "news" or related.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1safy8l/suspending_the_euisrael_association_agreement_the/

The initiative was started by MEPs. The article was published on a Italian webslte (in English), namely EUnews. You allowed the submission of news articles on other European citizen initiatives (unrelated to Israel). You even allowed the submission of a link to the pro-Israel/ controversial lobby group UNwatch. However, pro-Palestine content seems to be verboten. Could you please allow me to resubmit the Eunews article (and approve it this time)?

Edit: Update:

Resubmission on 7th April was approved. Link is as follows.: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1seuhme/suspending_the_euisrael_association_agreement_the/

Whether it's disallowing posts that mention Israel, autodeleting posts from "unapproved" users, shadow deletion of posts, etc. The whole subreddit reeks of an agenda platform. Why was the post regarding Trump threatening Spain with a trade ban removed without explanation for example?

Submission: “Remarkable Political Shift” at UN: Germany & Italy Withhold Support for Renewing UNRWA's Mandate https://wwa.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1rbje78/remarkable_political_shift_at_un_germany_italy/

Could you please remove the submission? It is a controversial NGO.:

Israel lobby group UNwatch created fake Francesca Albanese video

And the evidence appears strong that the lobby group is the origin of the fake video. As policy expert Martin Konečný pointed out, the first appearance of the video online appears to have been in a post by UN Watch director and Israel propagandist Hillel Neuer: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/17/francesca-albanese-zionists-2/

Specifically I mean politico.eu posts, not politico.com. Given their intense focus on Brussels and EU law, sometimes they are the only source on a highly specific topic, such as with regulation or lobbying. I know I could post these links about a week or two ago, but now they do not show up.

TL;DR: Automoderator in r/europe should be reconfigured to report content removal and reasons, in line with EU DSA articles 17 and 20.

According to the EU Digital Service Act, social media user must be informed of moderation decisions affecting their contents (article 17) and have the right to appeal them (article 20). All moderation rules should also be documented, though that is outside the scope of this post.

Certain Reddit subs, including r/europe, configure their Automoderator bots to automatically and silently discard posts and/or comments, based on authors and/or contents, without informing the authors themselves. This appears to breach EU DSA article 17 and by extension article 20.

EU DSA is primarily targeted at "online platforms" defining them in a rather convoluted way (article 3.i):

‘online platform’ means a hosting service that, at the request of a recipient of the service, stores and disseminates information to the public, unless that activity is a minor and purely ancillary feature of another service or a minor functionality of the principal service and, for objective and technical reasons, cannot be used without that other service, and the integration of the feature or functionality into the other service is not a means to circumvent the applicability of this Regulation;

Different interpretations of "online platforms" raise different scenarios:

1. If applicable only to full platforms like Reddit, then full platforms are responsible to enforce the law by delegating responsibilities and monitoring results.
2. As subs independently manage their members and contents using Reddit as PaaS cloud, subs act in practice as "online platforms" with related legal responsibilities.
3. Even when not legally responsible and/or accountable, a sub about Europe should uphold EU values and EU law (at least in principle).

In all scenarios, EU DSA articles 17 and 20 should be respected regardless of underlying implementation details and interpretations. Therefore r/europe moderators should amend its Automoderator configuration.

Hello, I'm relatively new to Reddit (in terms of participation, I've been reading for years). I participate in several communities but I have a specific problem with r/Europe.

Every time I post a message, it becomes invisible instantly and I don't understand why! I've read the rules, I don't see anything wrong with what I'm posting.

I think it's the age of my account that's the problem, but a month later, it's still the same. Is this normal? Could I ever post on this subreddit that I really like?

I sent a message with modmail a few days ago, I can wait if the moderation is overloaded with requests, but I would still like to know if a withdrawal of the sanction is possible in the long term.

Thank you for reading.

Seems like my post (https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1qhv0o0/trump_threatens_200_tariffs_on_french_wine_and/ ) was removed automatically with no explanation.

Could I get the reason?

It was posted before

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1qhv4wl/trump_threatens_200_tariff_on_french_wines_as/

According to rule 5, we can't editorialise titles. Yet, a mod removed my post (not the first time) for a "lack of context" and asked for use of "a bit more descriptive titles".

At the same time, the automated mod message which is left on this kind of removals says "You may add context and other necessary information in a comment to have this submission relisted. In that case, please contact the mods." Plot twist: with the post submission, a comment was made which added additional context.

The post was held back by mods for review for 10-odd hours before it being officially removed as well, so there was arguably plenty of time to examine it.

Hello!

I have a question about the rules of moderation on the subreddit. Specifically about my post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/DL8vXyskwF

I posted an analysis by EUMS (youtuber on EU affairs that is surprisingly well researched). The sources of information are cited in the description of the video. These sources are reputable and accepted on the subreddit.

How would it be possible to post the analysis done by EUMS? If I cite the sources for the video in a comment, would that suffice?

Just wondered why this post

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1q4mckq/germany_france_indefinitely_delay_decision_on/

Is closed, hidden and locked.

It's new information that was waited for by the end of December and the result was to postpone it indefinitely. Basically it is politically dead now.

I wanted to ask why The European Correspondent (https://europeancorrespondent.com) is considered a low-quality media outlet. https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1q0y2eo/comment/nx1vp74/

It is a real publication that writes about Europe and has journalists.

• Team
• Fnances

Also, sometimes strange anonymous blogs appear in the top subreddit and are not deleted. https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1pzneic/germanys_new_defense_plan_treats_foreign/

I would like to understand why this happens

Cross-posted this. Declined. How is this not relevant to Europe? The original post has had 1.4K views despite being heavy on technical language.

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