Advice on how to moderate a subreddit solo using multiple reddit mod accounts?

jokic55 · Mar 25, 2024

I have a few subreddits with 50k+ subs and am looking to add extra mods for backup in-case my main mod account gets banned or any other account issues arise. Looking for some clarification on the Questions below:

1. Your allowed to have multiple reddit accounts but cant have multiple mod accounts for the same subreddit. What is the best strategy to avoid this detection and does anyone have any experience with how reddit would flag this? Residential proxies for each account enough for this?

2. Buying aged accounts for mod privileges? Or am I better off just aging a few accounts on my own? If its better to age accounts on your own, is there any time window that gets flagged for new accounts before they can be approved for moderation?

3. Is there any difference between NSFW and regular subreddits in regards to how moderator accounts are monitored? I have 2 NSFW and 2 Non-NSFW subreddits.

Reddit is clearly making an increased effort to clean up the spam & bot issues, which I'm sure will continue now that they are a public company. I just want to be proactive before another one of my accounts gets deleted.

Thank you!

rajcomics · Mar 25, 2024

1. Your allowed to have multiple reddit accounts ??

who said?

btw india internet is cheap.I use multiple devices and multiuple 4g conection for reddit accounts

StevenTed · Mar 25, 2024

You can consider choosing antidetect browser Hidemyacc to create different browser fingerprints and proxy to create different IPs. Each reddit account is logged in on the browser and has a unique IP address. The platforn will be difficult to detect

MrZexi · Mar 25, 2024

Good quality proxies with 0 fraud score on bought aged accounts. The bought aged acc you can test if its flagged by posting a post/comment and checking from other account, before adding it as a moderator.

You can check the fraud score on scamalytics by copy pasting the IP address of the proxy.

No difference in managing nsfw/sfw except the nsfw subreddits get banned more easily for not being moderated/spammed on or for content that isn’t allowed.

bhtrail · Mar 25, 2024

1. Use good 4G/5G proxies. If you go to reddit and you get a captcha or some other message besides reddit.com, it is flagged. Most antidetect browsers allow you to have 10 profiles for free, get one of those with a good proxy to create or manage this account.

2. I would not buy an aged account for a backup moderator. I would age your own account if possible (or buy an aged blank account). Aged accounts with karma could have been hacked and could randomly be gone one day.

I've seen someone add a 3 day old account with no karma as a backup moderator with no issue. I also have backups that are ~1 month old and less than 10 karma as my backups. You will want to log into them occasionally and moderator with that account, though.

3. I do not know that one

rajcomics said:
1. Your allowed to have multiple reddit accounts ??

who said?

It's not against Reddit's TOS to have multiple accounts. You can even sign up with multiple accounts with the same email.

What is against their TOS is if they interact with each other (ie: voting your own posts, commenting on your alt accounts posts, etc). And obviously if you spam or something they will shut down both accounts likely.

IcaroAugusto · Mar 25, 2024

For proxies definitely use high quality mobile or residential proxies. Also buy good accounts too.

Shawerma · Mar 26, 2024

jokic55 said:
I have a few subreddits with 50k+ subs and am looking to add extra mods for backup in-case my main mod account gets banned or any other account issues arise. Looking for some clarification on the Questions below:

1. Your allowed to have multiple reddit accounts but cant have multiple mod accounts for the same subreddit. What is the best strategy to avoid this detection and does anyone have any experience with how reddit would flag this? Residential proxies for each account enough for this?

2. Buying aged accounts for mod privileges? Or am I better off just aging a few accounts on my own? If its better to age accounts on your own, is there any time window that gets flagged for new accounts before they can be approved for moderation?

3. Is there any difference between NSFW and regular subreddits in regards to how moderator accounts are monitored? I have 2 NSFW and 2 Non-NSFW subreddits.

Reddit is clearly making an increased effort to clean up the spam & bot issues, which I'm sure will continue now that they are a public company. I just want to be proactive before another one of my accounts gets deleted.

Thank you!

Be careful!

Do not and I mean it, do not add any mods to your subreddit, if you add random mods once you get "inactive" title next to your name they can reorder the mod list and steal the subreddit

bhtrail · Mar 26, 2024

Shawerma said:
Be careful!

Do not and I mean it, do not add any mods to your subreddit, if you add random mods once you get "inactive" title next to your name they can reorder the mod list and steal the subreddit

Are you saying you shouldn't add a backup mod to your subreddit?

I've had my moderator accounts randomly banned/locked. Isn't it good to have a backup moderator?

Just log into the backup once per week and do a moderator action?

Shawerma · Mar 26, 2024

bhtrail said:
Are you saying you shouldn't add a backup mod to your subreddit?

I've had my moderator accounts randomly banned/locked. Isn't it good to have a backup moderator?

Just log into the backup once per week and do a moderator action?

Add your own accounts but do not add strangers, a subreddit which is 17 years old was stolen yesterday from it's own top mod, so only add your alt account

bhtrail · Mar 26, 2024

Shawerma said:
Add your own accounts but do not add strangers, a subreddit which is 17 years old was stolen yesterday from it's own top mod, so only add your alt account

Got it. OP was asking for advice on adding his own accounts, not randoms.

That's wild on the 17 yr old subreddit. I've seen battles over the years for high profile subreddits. It's cutthroat out there

jokic55 · Mar 27, 2024

bhtrail said:
Got it. OP was asking for advice on adding his own accounts, not randoms.

That's wild on the 17 yr old subreddit. I've seen battles over the years for high profile subreddits. It's cutthroat out there

Shawerma said:
Add your own accounts but do not add strangers, a subreddit which is 17 years old was stolen yesterday from it's own top mod, so only add your alt account

Thanks. Feel like mods are being sabotaged or banned more frequently recently. Reddits an absolute shitshow with how they manage moderators. Different rules and consequences for everyone!

ClickNinja · Feb 4, 2025

bhtrail said:
1. Use good 4G/5G proxies. If you go to reddit and you get a captcha or some other message besides reddit.com, it is flagged. Most antidetect browsers allow you to have 10 profiles for free, get one of those with a good proxy to create or manage this account.

Any suggestions for good free antidetect browsers with proxies for this?

shijin · Feb 5, 2025

Backup mods are a must. If Reddit nukes your main, you need instant replacements

p67 · Feb 5, 2025

This. Make a few backup accounts and add them, make sure you login to these accounts on different devices and ip address often and do a couple of mod tasks on your subreddits just to show they are active.

If you can have family, a friend or someone you trust do this too, add them as a mod so that if you lose your accounts they can then add your new account back on to the mod team.

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