Moddiquette

Author	Reddit
Source	https://www.reddit.com/wiki/moddiquette
Context	Informal set of guidelines for moderators of reddit written by community members.

Moddiquette is an informal set of guidelines for moderators of reddit written by community members. Please abide by it the best you can.

Please do:

• Be calm and polite, even when users are not.

• Offer helpful rule explanations, tips, and links to new or confused users.

• Check the moderation queues and /new listings of your subreddits regularly.

[modqueue] [unmoderated] [new queue]

• Try to respond to all of your moderator mail, even if you cannot address it in a timely manner.

• Be open to the viewpoints of other moderators in your subreddit and try to reach a consensus on difficult tasks.

• Keep a unified front when addressing users officially.

• Report spammers and other rule violations.

• Try to inform users when you remove their content.

You can leave a distinguished comment or mark their post with link flair.

Please don't:

• Remove content based on your opinion.

• Distinguish comments or submissions when you aren't speaking officially on behalf of your subreddit.

• Publish moderator mail publicly without permission of those involved.

• Hide reddit ads or purposely mislead users with custom CSS.

• Act unilaterally when making major revisions to rules, sidebars, or stylesheets.

• Invite other users as moderators to your subreddit without their permission.

• Take on moderation roles in more subreddits than you can handle.

• Take moderation positions in communities where your profession, employment, or biases could pose a direct conflict of interest to the neutral and user driven nature of reddit.

• Encourage or "feed" trolls—just ignore them.

• Ban users from subreddits in which they have not broken any rules.

• Interfere with other subreddits or their moderation.