Comment by llamageddon01 on 06/04/2021 at 16:30 UTC*

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View submission: A Guide to Reddit Lingo

Part 03 - Creating a Subreddit: Special Note

- Adopting a Subreddit

You might occasionally come across a Subreddit that hasn’t been active in a long time. Dead or abandoned subreddits exist for a number of reasons, mostly due to the inactivity of its moderators. Subreddits are considered "abandoned" in the event that none of its mods have been active anywhere on Reddit in the past 60 days. You might even want to repurpose a previously banned sub, such as Redditor u/PM_ME_YOUR_TITS_GIRL who requests old porn subs like r/PrettyPussy, and converts them to a subreddit for cat pics/gifs.

So, first, find your Subreddit. Here are some useful places to start:

r/adoptareddit - allows moderators to hand off a sub. Admins will grant mod privileges in certain circumstances.
r/availablesubs - lists of abandoned or moderatorless subreddits.
r/deadsubs - “the graveyard of Reddit”, probably dead itself ironically.
r/findareddit - can help you find any sub, not just dead ones.
r/Inactivereddits - a community finding inactive/unmoderated subreddits.
r/reclassified - who track and discuss banned and quarantined subreddits.
r/Requestable - A catalogue of defunct subreddits, itself defunct.
r/subreddit - to share an unrecognized subreddit or to find a subreddit you've been looking for.
r/SubsToRequest - for those interested in sharing and requesting abandoned, inactive & banned subreddits.

Your next step is to go to r/redditrequest and ask to take over the subreddit that you'd like to mod[1]. Reddit Request requires accounts to be 90 days old with 500 combined karma to take on a sub, and you ABSOLUTELY MUST read the Rules at r/redditrequest thoroughly before posting a request. These will be found in the Sidebar (on mobile this will be the About tab and Community Info found in the three dot “hamburger” menu top RH corner of your screen), any Pinned posts (these will have a lime green ‘pin’ icon on the top corner and will show on top when you sort the Subreddit by ‘Hot’) and Wiki (where there is one).

1: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043478471-How-to-request-subreddit-via-Reddit-Request-

You might, in time, get a message “This subreddit was banned due to a violation of Reddit’s content policy against creating or repurposing a sub to reconstitute or serve the same objective as a banned or quarantined subreddit.” How meta. Be aware that the "ban evasion" bot can be somewhat over enthusiastic[2].

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/hx46uy/lets_fix_the_subreddit_ban_evasion_problem/

See Also:* “Is there really a subreddit for everything?”, Mod, Restricted Subreddits, r/rimjob_steve, Subreddits.

- Creating Your Own Subreddit

At one time you needed a 30 day old account and around 25-50 karma to create a subreddit, but this was relaxed in early 2021. *This is not something I have experience with myself, so here are some useful links and guides to start with.*

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/mmwdrh/new_community_creator_onboarding_tool/

r/substarters

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/2yob6r/creating_a_subreddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/hnnv23/setting_up_your_first_sub_on_mobile/

https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043044012-How-do-I-create-a-community-

https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001656752-Things-to-know-before-creating-a-subreddit

- Moderation

If you are inviting The Average Redditor to participate on your Subreddit, you will eventually need to remove objectionable or off topic posts and comments or even ban a spammer or other abusive user from posting or commenting. See, mods *can* be useful after all.

https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204533859-What-is-a-moderator-

r/needamod To become a mod without creating your own subreddit

r/AvailableSubs To become a mod without creating your own subreddit

r/modguide Invaluable help and assistance

r/modsupport

r/modhelp

r/modclub

r/modnews

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/automoderator

https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us

https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002334871-Communities-for-moderators

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/moddiquette

- Promotion of Your Subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion[3] Reddit’s guidelines for self promotion.

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion

r/PromoteReddit - Subreddits must be open (not private and not restricted). Please post secret subs to /r/SecretReddits instead.
/r/promote - General promotion.
/r/freepromote - General promotion, but mostly subreddits.
/r/shamelessplug - Showcase your website, project, game or anything else you've been working hard on.
/r/newreddits - Promote your brand new subreddit.
/r/notsonewreddits - Promote your not so new subreddit.
/r/newreddits_NSFW - Promote your NSFW subreddit.
/r/yoursub - General subreddit promotion.
/r/Subredditads - Submit your subreddit to be considered for free advertising and promotion on reddit.
/r/Facebookpages - Promote your facebook pages/groups.
/r/AdvertiseYourServer - Primarily for promoting your discord server.

And a custom feed from a Redditor with an amusing and misleading username: https://www.reddit.com/user/banned_accounts/m/newsubs/

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