Your Powers as a Moderator

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCertification101/comments/p39lcp/your_powers_as_a_moderator/

created by ModCertification on 12/08/2021 at 21:41 UTC*

143 upvotes, 1 top-level comments (showing 1)

Your powers as a moderator

Creating a community gives you a lot of power to control the content and culture of that community, but that power has some limitations. As the creator, you'll have access to all moderation permissions[1] for your community. The creator is generally known as the "top mod." In the future, when you add more moderators, you will be able to set their permissions granularly.

1: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009381491

What you can and can't do as a mod

As a community creator, you have full mod permissions[2]. This means any tool available to mods is available to you within your community. This allows you to:

2: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009381491

• remove posts from others
• pin (sticky) up to 2 posts to the top of your community to raise their visibility
• lock threads and comments so no further community replies can be added
• distinguish your own comments and posts, creating a visual flag that the content is from a moderator
• ban users from coming to your community and temporarily mute users who are abusive to you in your community's modmail
• and more[3].

This does not allow you to take any action in communities where you are not a mod and there are some things you will not be able to do, such as:

3: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002318552

• see the IP or any other identifying information of community members
• delete or edit other users' content
• remove, delete, or ban any subreddit, including your own
• know who subscribed to your community
• know who voted on or reported content
• and more[4].

Continue on to our Reddit's Policies[5] post when you're ready.

4: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002317172

5: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCertification101/comments/p39mhe/reddits_content_policy_and_the_mod_guidelines/

Comments

Comment by ModCertification at 03/09/2021 at 16:07 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Please remember that per Rule 2, all posts are locked as Mod Certification is a self-guided course. Any posts created in the community are also automatically removed in following with this rule and to ensure the community's content is focused around its educational materials.

However, we are still more than happy to help you-- please see our 'Helpful Communities' sidebar to receive peer-help from other moderators, and please Modmail us[1] for a quicker response to any questions or concerns you may have. **If this is the first post you are seeing for this program,** please go ahead and start at the Introduction[2] post and then review our How to Participate[3] post.

1: https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/ModCertification101

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCertification101/comments/p3919n/introduction_to_the_mod_certification_program/

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCertification101/comments/p393lw/how_to_participate_in_mod_certification_101/

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