Self-Serve Moderator Reorder

tl;dr This week, moderators with Everything permissions will have the ability to reorder moderators without needing admin assistance. If you have inactive moderators at the top of the list, the next active moderator on the list with Everything permissions can reorder anyone on the list, including the inactive moderators.

I’m u/agoldenzebra, and I work on Community Governance initiatives in collaboration with our Product teams. As a reminder, the Community Governance team’s work focuses on empowering active moderators, creating clearer systems for effective subreddit governance, and ensuring that you have the data and information you need to be effective stewards of your community.

With that in mind, a few months ago we introduced protections for communities with inactive moderators. Today, we’re here to introduce the next step in this body of work: providing moderators with the ability to reorder their moderator team without needing admin assistance.

Here’s how it works:

• Any moderator with Everything permissions (i.e. the ability to add/remove mods) will see a “Reorder” button on the Moderators page on New Reddit.
• When they visit that page, they will be able to drag and drop reorder all the moderators below them (the same moderators they would be able to add/remove today)
• If you have inactive moderators at the top of the list: the highest up (in the hierarchy) moderator that is active and has Everything permissions is now functionally the top mod. This means this person can reorder anyone on the list, including all mods (both active mods with limited permissions and inactive mods) above them.
  • As a moderator reorder is a notable change, we recommend consulting with the rest of your active mod team before taking this action.
• When anyone reorders the list, it puts a note in the mod log and generates a modmail to the subreddit, which looks like this:

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• Unfortunately, this feature is not yet available on mobile devices or to communities with over 100 moderators. If you have over 100 moderators and need to reorder your moderator list, please write to r/ModSupport modmail.
• We will begin rolling this feature out today. It will be available to all mods by next week (we’re taking our time to ensure everything works as intended).

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Please comment below if you have any questions or feedback. Thanks!