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The moderation tools are absolutely archaic. Moderating any subreddit of sufficient size requires a small army of bots and third party tools.

Basic forum moderation tools like IP banning persistent troublemakers and spammers are still not available.

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hello, what challenges in particular? Are you a moderator?

edit: I saw you posted a few challenges :) I don't work for reddit but if you're a moderator Id be interested to PM you about something around that...

I am a moderator of several large (300k plus) subreddits. Same username here as there, or also @gmail.com. I'm happy to chat about the challenges of moderating these large communities.

It's widely held that modmail is horribly designed.

The admins have recently made some changes to that (threaded modmail), so there's definitely some improvement in that direction though.

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