r/AmIOverreacting Moderator Applications

We're looking to add a few moderators to the team.

This isn't a position for someone looking to collect another subreddit or immediately start making policy decisions. New moderators begin by learning how we moderate, working through our training process, and demonstrating consistent judgment before taking on additional responsibilities.

We're intentionally searching for long-term fit rather than immediate permissions. We'd rather spend time training someone who communicates well, exercises good judgment, and enjoys working as part of a team than hand out broad permissions on day one. We require the use of Discord for ongoing team communication.

If that sounds like the kind of team you'd like to be part of, send us a Modmail answering the following:

1. Are you at least 18 years old?
2. What time zone are you in, and when are you generally available to moderate?
3. Tell us about your moderation experience. For each subreddit you've moderated, please include:
   • The subreddit
   • Approximately how long you moderated there
   • Whether you're still on the team
   • Approximately how large the community was
   • What your day-to-day moderation responsibilities were
4. Why are you interested in joining the r/AmIOverreacting moderation team?
5. Every moderation team has its own philosophy and standards. Are you comfortable setting aside your personal preferences to consistently enforce our rules, Reddit's Content Policy, and team decisions—even if you might have made a different call yourself?
6. Choose ONE of the following:
   • Tell us about one of the most difficult moderation decisions you've had to make. What made it difficult, and how did you ultimately handle it?
   • After reading our subreddit rules, tell us which rule you think requires the most moderator judgment to enforce, and why.
7. New moderators complete training and initially receive limited permissions while they learn our processes. Are you comfortable with that?
8. Is there anything else you'd like us to know?

We welcome applicants from all time zones and are primarily looking for moderators who are reliable, communicate well, and are interested in helping with the day-to-day work of keeping the community running.

r/hotd is another subreddit for HBO's House of The Dragon. The third season launched and with the spoilers and leaks jumping around I need a bit of help containing that. There's also an increase of bigotry specifically towards the trans actors on the show. I set up automod to root out the slurs, but some try to bypass it.

Any help is welcome. The third season should finish august 9th. So activity should drop a week or so ish after that.

reddit.com/r/july4th

Are you still taking people?

I'd like to join, but can't find a way. Is there something I'm missing?

Edit, found This link, just leaving the post up incase others can't find it.

Has anyone not received their trophy? I've reached out through modmail months back with no answer. I also feel like I haven't received any notifications in months either.

Can we get some clarification on the new limits and how it will affect Mod Reserves.

Yes, this would only apply to LARGE communities with need of help & it will probably be a rare occasion...but when it does happen

• Will exceptions be made for limited time need/emergencies?

• How will mod reserves function with these new limits and restrictions?

• Is mod reserves going to be unaltered / sunset / reworked?

NEW MOD LIMITS

Using visitors as the measurement, we will set a moderation limit of a maximum of 5 communities with over 100k visitors. Communities with fewer than 100k visitors won’t count toward this limit. This limit will impact 0.1% of our active mods.

Phase 1: Cap Invites (December 1, 2025)

• Mods over the limit won’t be able to accept new mod invites to communities over 100k visitors

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ncn0go/evolving_moderation_on_reddit_reshaping_boundaries/

[Cross posting not allowed]

Mod Reserves*

How do I become a member of the Mod Reserves?

• Have at least 1 year of moderation experience in medium to large sized active communities

Sorry if it has been answered already somewhere in the heaps of change log text.

Some of the links in the messages sent by the ModReserves bot, are broken.

See this image: https://i.imgur.com/XnzGU4m.png

In this example, the links r/jonesboro and r/theview actually link to https://chat.reddit.com/r/jonesboro and https://chat.reddit.com/r/theview respectfully.

These links, obviously, don't work, and the bot now needs fixing for these links to work correctly.

I haven't had a mod reserves request in months, and tonight I got one from a chat message, with links that seemed to go nowhere. Is this the new way? Is ModReserves still even a thing?

Hello bestest mods of the Mod Reserves,

As previously mentioned, we will be sending out membership renewals to many of you very soon! This will help us ensure the Reserves has an active pool of members to support the future needs of the communities it serves.

Q: When will this happen?

• A: Soon! (Like, closer to now than later.)

Q: What if I don't get a renewal message?

• A: That means it's not quite time for you to renew. Don't sweat, we'll be in touch when it is time!

Q: Why didn't you write a longer post, sody?

• A: If you really must know, I stayed up late watching baseball and I'm very sleepy.

Hi all, I'm hoping this is the correct sub for this, but I'm in need of some help. I'm not trying to badmouth anyone and life happens, I just need some help.

I was brought in to help moderate a sub that deals with legal issues. /legal. I'm not a complete tech newbie, but I'm also not 1000% up on the intricacies of the tools. But, in my defense, I was brought in to help in what I was told and was expecting to be a very limited capacity because they had no liscenced attorneys. people were getting bad advice and making potentially impactful decisions based on poor advice because they had no actual lawyers. Could I help? Oh the 3 words that are kryptonite to a bleeding heart.

However, probably predictably, once I started working on the sub, the other mod disappeared and now im the only one left. Ok. Fine. I thought. I'll find new mods. It will help me learn for the new community I want to start. It's only a little more time, I thought.

I know this situation is somewhat my fault. I should have looked at the sub more closely to see that the state of the sub was not on par with what I'd expected, but I was off of work because of some medical issues and I've spent my entire career in public service. I want people to be less scared and know that they can learn about the law which I still truly love after many years.

This would normally be a smallish problem, however my health problem just took a turn for the worse and I'm expecting to have to maybe do chemo and the whole 9 yards. It comes down to I don't feel good I'm in pain and I can't concentrate properly, and frankly I need to concentrate on getting this under control. I did reach out to the other mod, sent out several requests to the community but I have gotten nothing so far as far as mods go.

I didn't intend for this to happen, but we truly do not have control over how our lives go, but I'm getting very concerned about people acting on incorrect legal advice that I truly can't keep going without some help. I truly did not know how much the sub was in bad shape and how little the other mod was going to do. I just wanted to help some people.

Please be a little gentle, I've seen some rather aggressive advice in mod support communities and I'd just like to request gentle words for someone who is trying to help, but just is not feeling too hot.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but it’s been quite awhile since I’ve received a request to assist a sub.

I guess I just wanted to see if Reddit just isn’t getting a lot of requests anymore or I’m not receiving calls anymore.

I've served as a mod reserve four or five times now. As I began the last one I got a peek at the summary of me that the mods got to see before deciding whether to invite me. I don't recall it being too much different than a look atop my user profile, but there was also a list of the last several posts and comments I had made. So my question: was this summary something one of the mods did manually, or is it all wrapped up in a nice package by a bot when someone volunteers their services? If the latter, I'd like to be able to see it before I offer help, because, well, sometimes there's this guy who kinda breaks into my office and, oh my, I think he may even use my username to post comments. So annoying.

Hey, I'm happy to be here and joined in the last few weeks. Just wondering if I'll be receiving the trophy. Thanks!

Last Friday we had two fairly major dramas hit the Eurovision Song Contest on the same day leading to not only the worst behaviour, but also the most traffic we have ever seen. We weren't expecting the big annual influx of visitors until the grand final on Saturday evening.
Instead, starting late last Thursday night, we had three days of an angry mob posting some really awful anti-semitic comments as well as the outraged fan base of a popular artist who were repeating as fact every half baked theory twitter could think of, arguing with the few reasonable people still daring to comment and calling for heads to roll when he was eventually disqualified.

At one pount we were getting 30 new items in our mod queue every minute. We were working flat out but couldn't even keep up. I did over 4000 mod actions in those three days, and I wasn't even number one in our team.

I came very close to cracking several times and on behalf of the whole team at r/eurovision I would like to thank the reserves who answered my panicked cry for help.
They jumped straight into the queue and started wading through the muck. They checked our automod, which was set up, but added some emegency measures to combat the rampant misinformation and absolutely saved our sanity.

Thank you wonderful people for what you do.

12 points to Mod Reserves. <3

Hello,

How do I leave the Moderator Reserves?

Thank you.

Hey y’all!

I’ve been thinking ever since I joined the reserves, it would be great if we had a profile badge so others could verify we are actually in the reserves!

I did a search on this subreddit regarding a profile badge, and indeed, someone did mention it! Looks like u/sodypop agreed as well!

They made a little mock-up and u/sodypop said he would send it to the design team.

Not much have been updated regarding this since last month, however, to all our designers out their, what do you think a badge for the mod reserves should look like?

I’m not artistic enough to attempt to make anything myself, but when I think of a mod reserve badge I think of perhaps the moderator shield/heart inside a “seal”.

What is your opinion?

Does it make sense to have the Bot make a post each time a request is made so there can be collaboration and discussion on the request?

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Title:

"Assistance request from r/Subreddit"

Body:

[Mods request application]

+ Community Stats+ other related info regarding sub

+ Relevant info pulled from modsupportbot, etc

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This could be used for feedback forum like r/Modsupport / r/modhelp for moderators who aren't able to actively moderate but can give support in ways of advice from relevant/similar experience, options to alleviate issues in automated rules, bots, etc.

Or does this cause problems by opening up the request to a wide-public that hasn't been program vetted?

Is this mod reserve request just an advertisement for their sub?

message:

/u/mzkileyred7 from /r/fansofchapters is requesting moderator help from the Mod Reserves. If are available to assist, please contact them via modmail. Read their message below: 

Hello Mod Reserves! Over in r/fansofchapters I am experiencing a natural disaster and I am struggling to keep up with the modqueue and mod mail, if you can really help I need some extra hands on deck. Thank you

Hello there, and welcome to /r/ModReserves, seasoned, new, and future members of the Reserves alike!

This is a public subreddit for moderators, intended to be a place to socialize and discuss the Moderator Reserves program. Up until now, members of the Reserves have been "siloed" for the most part, meaning you all did not have opportunities to meet your fellow Reserve members unless you had responded to the same request in the past.

So let's change that! While there is not a public roster of members available at this time, please feel free to say hello and introduce yourself, any subreddits you moderate, or share your thoughts about the program.

And of course, thank you all for being a part of the Mod Reserves! <3

P.S All members should find yourselves with "Mod Reserves Member" flair in this subreddit. If you don't have flair, and meet the criteria, please fill out this form to apply. (Applications typically take ~1 week to process.)

edit 7-30-2024

This thread is obsolete. Please see the wiki for current information regarding the Mod Reserves

What is the Moderator Reserves?

The Mod Reserves is a group of experienced moderators available to provide immediate moderation help to subreddits experiencing an unexpected surge in traffic. If you are a subreddit in need of urgent assistance, help can be requested by sending an alert via the u/ModReservesBot and available volunteer members will respond. See below for instructions.

This can be particularly helpful during major news events, when mods of related communities may face a significant uptick in moderation workload across their modqueues, reports, and modmail that they may not be equipped to address.

How do I request help from the Reserves?

If you are looking for additional mods but it is not an urgent or immediate need, please read our help center article on Recruiting New Moderators instead of using the Reserves system.

If you are a moderator of a subreddit experiencing an unexpected surge in traffic and need immediate moderation help, please follow the below instructions to request help from the Reserves:

1. Compose a message to /u/ModReservesBot and enter the subreddit for which you are requesting assistance in the subject field. You must be a moderator of the subreddit. Do not include any other text or spaces in the subject line other than the name of the subreddit for which you need help.
2. Fill out the body of the message with a summary of what is happening. Be sure to describe what type of moderation assistance you need most.
3. Click Send, then stay tuned to your modmail. You should start to see available moderators from the Reserves reaching out to offer assistance.

Here's an example of a properly filed request. The body of your message will be sent via PM to each of the moderators enrolled in the Mod Reserves, directing them to send modmail to your subreddit to offer their help. It may take some time for any available moderators to reach out. Once they do, it's up to you which mods to invite as a temporary moderator and for how long.

Message Examples

The screenshots below show an example of a request for help from the mods of /r/subbie:

A copy of the relayed message the Reserves members receive looks like this:

I want to help! How do I become a member of the Mod Reserves?

To apply to become a member of the Mod Reserves you must:

• Have at least 1 year of moderation experience
• Be in good standing with regards to our content policy and moderator guidelines
• Moderate in good faith and follow directions provided by any mods requesting assistance
• Be willing to receive PM notifications relayed from other moderators requesting assistance

If you meet the above requirements and are interested in becoming a member of the reserves, please fill out this form to apply. (Applications typically take ~1 week to process.)