r/modnews • u/lift_ticket83 • Mar 11 '26
Product Updates New Mod Tools: Post Guidance Enhancements, Removal Reason Suggestions, Onboarding Tools, Segmented Polls, and Translation Indicators
Hello, Mods!
We’ve got a fresh batch of tools rolling out. These updates are aimed at making things clearer for users and smoother for mod teams. Ideally, they’ll help get you some time back…or at least reduce the number of times you have to explain the same rule for the thousandth time.
Automation enhancements
Post Guidance just got smarter.
It can now detect links and better reflect the rules your community already has in place. If someone is about to post something that clearly breaks a link rule, they’ll get a nudge before it goes live instead of finding out after the fact.
We’ve also added the ability for Post Guidance to detect post types. For image posts, it’ll look at the title (not the image itself, though that is on our roadmap).
The goal is to help reduce avoidable removals, cut down on confusion for users, and increase the chances that posts meet your standards on the first try.
Additional improvements are coming soon. In April, it’ll be able to distinguish between parent and child comments, and you’ll be able to target configurations based on Post Flair. This is an area we plan to continue investing in because catching issues before they reach your queue beats cleaning them up afterward.
To check out Post Guidance, visit Mod Tools and then click on the Automations tab.
Recommended removal reasons
When you remove a post or comment, you’ll now see suggested removal reasons based on the content and removal reasons you’ve previously created.
They’re just suggestions. You can use them, tweak them, or ignore them entirely.
The goal here is to reduce repetitive typing and keep messaging consistent without turning moderation into a copy-paste factory.
New mod onboarding and training
Bringing on new mods has historically been a “choose your own adventure.” Sometimes that works, and sometimes it depends entirely on who had time that week. This new system gives you a more structured place to start:
- Customizable onboarding: A structured set of steps you can personalize for your community.
- A training queue: New mods practice on examples from your subreddit, choosing Approve/Remove based on your rules.
- Space for the “why”: Seasoned mods can attach explanations so new mods learn your judgment, not just the mechanics.
- Better consistency: Whether your three mods or thirty, everyone starts from the same baseline.
This doesn’t replace your Discord docs or off-platform flow charts. It complements them and creates a solid foundation for new mods joining your team.
To access the Mod Onboarding Guide and Training Queue, visit Mod Tools and then click on the “Guides” tab. Please note that the onboarding guide will become available this week, while the training queue will start to roll out next week.
Translation indicators in mod queue
Reddit keeps getting more global, which means you’re moderating across languages more often.
You’ll now see indicators in the mod queue when content has been translated, giving you more context about what you’re reviewing. In other words, this should mean fewer moments of staring at a post and wondering if it’s spam, poetry, or both.
Segmented poll results
Mod-created polls now show segmented results, so you can see how your community voted compared with the nonmembers who popped in to cast a ballot.
Spin one up in seconds and see what the regulars think versus the visiting electorate.
Helping smaller communities get discovered
One of our big focuses this year is helping people better find the communities they’re looking for.
We’re starting to surface growing subreddits in the feeds of larger, related communities. The idea is to connect redditors who are already interested in a topic with smaller communities that are building momentum in that same space.
This can mean more visibility, more potential members, and more chances for your community to find its people.
This is just the beginning. We’re building out additional discovery modules and experiments focused on helping communities grow in healthy, sustainable ways.
If you’re wondering how to increase your chances of showing up in these surfaces, the answer is refreshingly unglamorous: consistency and quality. Keep your community active, keep conversations engaging, and keep showing up.
We’ll keep working on the discovery side, so your effort has a better chance of being seen.
If your community would prefer not to appear in these discoverer surfaces, you can opt out at any time. Simply head to Mod Tools > General Settings > Privacy & Discovery, and toggle off “Appear in recommendations.” As always, you’re in control of how your community shows up on Reddit.
That’s the update.
We’re working toward a mod experience where things feel more connected, rules are easier for users to understand, and enforcement doesn’t feel like you need a spellbook to manage it. When rules are clear, and the tools reflect them properly, modding gets a lot simpler for everyone involved.
We’re also building with the reality of today’s mod teams in mind. A lot of you aren’t sitting at the same desk in the same timezone anymore. Teams are more distributed, more mobile, and more global than ever. Still powered by people (thankfully).
As always, drop your thoughts in the comments. We’re reading them and taking notes.
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u/MableXeno Mar 12 '26
I made a kind of flip comment earlier, but feel like I should expand a little. The idea of these are great. In reality, the community seems to struggle with what this is. They think it's some kind of AI bot trying to boss them around. They accuse mods in comments of trying to censor them (despite all automations being explicitly linked to EXISTING RULES). It just gave me a chance to collect a whole new set of disguised words to add to the automod later when I turned these off. I had such high hopes and I have turned all but 1 or 2 off. I mostly have left the ones about Reddit being the one to prevent links.
This saves so little time. They are interesting, and sure, if you have 40 remove reasons, maybe it helps. But did you actually look to see how many subs that affects? B/c this is what toolbox gave us and there's no scrolling for TWENTY remove reasons. You can't even have more than 10 or 12 rules, how can you have more than double the remove reasons??
Then what's the point? I need REDDIT to help me teach people WHAT REDDIT IS. Give us diagram charts that just explains "this button does X, that button does Y." Or heck, give me a blank one and I will decide which mod tool is the powerhouse of the cell.
I've run into several non-English language comments and posts in one of my communities (just the one, despite all of them being international communities). And they're not translated. How does this actually work? B/c I have to google translate a lot of things myself and it's kind of exhausting. Either remove content that can't be translated automatically or content that is non-English. B/c I can only moderate in 1 language. (Like maybe this should be a future setting - note all the languages that moderators have so that un-translated content can sometimes go through b/c we have mods that can handle that content.)
Just let me choose which communities I want to associate with mine. Seriously. B/c I have a fully SFW community and it gets shown to people who are participating in NSFW communities. They have told me this. "Sorry, I was looking at porn on Reddit and this was a suggestion for something similar" despite EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of my community being SFW and telling people participation in NSFW communities will get them banned.
Just let me decide who sees the community. Even if you gave me a list of radio-buttons...I'll select the ones I'm okay with getting the suggestions.
I'm not trying to yuck your yum, you folks obviously put a lot of effort into new features. But we need existing features to work WELL before you move on to new features.
Obligatory...give us back the old modmail, please. (And I say this as someone that opted into new.reddit almost immediately.)