

For example, if you have a post that goes viral and you aren’t prepared for the influx of new people to your community, or if you’re having issues with people engaging with your community in bad faith, Crowd Control can help you out.

Often, those accounts have been banned for spam, although occasionally they are banned in error.Ĭrowd Control is a community setting that lets moderators automatically collapse/filter comments and filter posts from people who aren’t trusted users within their community yet. You can recognize their posts because they will display differently than other content. Posts from site-wide banned users are removed but will still show in your working queues if you do not choose to exclude them. Please note that 18+ communities are restricted from uploading and hosting media directly on Reddit. Failure to do so can lead to the community being banned for disregarding the Reddit content policy. You must set your community to 18+ if your community's content will primarily be not safe for work (NSFW). If you choose to make your community restricted, you will have the option to adjust the settings so that only approved users can make posts (default setting), only approved users can make comments but not posts, or only approved users can make posts and comments. Here you can choose if you'd like your community to be open to everyone (public), visible and with comments open to everyone but with posting limited to certain users (restricted), or only visible or accessible to users you've allowed in (private). If you’d like, you can switch to another city, state, or country within this setting. Right now, you cannot remove a location after you submit one. This setting allows you to add a location to your community and get discovered by redditors near you. You can read more about this feature in this article. Sending this message is a good opportunity to let new members know exactly what the community is all about and how they can best participate. Y ou can set a custom welcome message that will be sent to everyone who officially joins your community, making them more likely to stick around in the future. When coming up with your description, it’s important to note that markdown/formatting will not work here.
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Providing information on how to seek an invitation may be helpful. If your community is private, this will be the only description redditors will be able to see. By taking the time to make a clear and in-depth description of your community's purpose and vision, you are not only helping people know if the community is what they’re looking for but also helping to ensure that the people who join understand why it exists and how it works. This is one of the most important fields to complete! It will be displayed in search results, social media links, the description under your subreddit’s name on mobile, and in Reddit search results for your community, even if it’s set to private. You can read more about community topics in this article. Adding or editing your display name will not change your actual subreddit name (r/).Ĭommunity topics provide another way for moderators to tell Reddit what topics are relevant to their community, helping us surface their community and content to redditors interested in those topics. This is the display name or heading that appears below the community banner. Your community settings also allow you to make choices that determine how your community works.īelow is a walk-through of each option available in your community settings. This is where you fill in some blanks that will tell users what your community is all about. Your community settings can be found in the Other section of your moderation tools.
