Reddit's Moderation Tools

For my Produsage Assignment, I set up a subreddit about Korean Language Learning for Kids. /r/KoreanForKids. In doing so, I got to see some of the Reddit tools for moderators. I will show them below. They are not extremely user-friendly, but they do provide good tools if you know what you're doing.

Not Logged in

Logged in as Moderator

For each post, you can "

share

save

hide

delete

spam

remove

approve

lock

nsfw

." This gives you the option of removing any posts or even locking them so they can't be edited. 

Through the "Moderation Tools" listed on the right, I can set all sorts of different rules for the subreddit. I can set how long an account must be active before posting. I can designate monitors. I can set a style sheet to change the way things are displayed. I can lay out options for giving users "flair" that shows by their login when they post. Here are some examples:

The traffic stats are also particularly interesting:

Reddit also has "auto moderator." It seems pretty useful for bigger subreddits, but not worth my time to learn yet while the subreddit is so small.

Within each post, I can delete individual comments. I can also "sticky" them. This puts them to the top and of the page so users see it first. I did this for a few of my posts when I was trying to seed some discussions.