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Plenty of subreddits dedicated to rock / metal bands are restricted or banned, here's a list of subs you can try to make public again through mod application

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You might have ended up on my profile due to me moderating many metal / rock bands subreddits. The reason I became mod is that too often, smaller subs become restricted / private because of a lack of moderation. This situation usually arises following a mod being inactive or banned from the site.

We always find it frustrating to come across our favorite band's sub and realize no one has been able to post anything for the last 6 months.

To answer this problem, a new mod has to "take over" the sub, and a request can be made over to r/redditrequest by anybody given your account validates a few conditions. Currently, the conditions are as follows :

  • Your account must be at least 90 days old
  • Have at least 100 comment karma and 100 post karma
  • Your account must also have a verified email address and two-factor authentication enabled to ensure the safety of your account.

You can find more informations about the process directly in the sidebar.

I have done that with a lot of subs that are now made public again. Most of the subs we're talking about here are pretty small and don't take a lot of time to mod. Even with my 70+ subs, it usually takes a few minutes at most of moderation every day (and that's still more work than most mods of those smaller subs, as every time I acquire a sub, I realize that none of the posts have been moderated (validated / removed) by the previous mod).

At times there might be some more attending to do though in various contexts (tickets exchange megathreads, other megathreads, some users trolling... etc) so take that into consideration, make sure it is something you might actually enjoy, I know I do enjoy to take care of communities relating to topics I like.

One of the reasons I make this post is that sadly, I might have reached a maximum amount of subs I can mod, or at least that's my guess considering there's very little information given by r/redditrequest as to why sub requests are accepted or denied.

Know also that is not well seen by some of the mod community to acquire subs and just do passive moderation, I've had some very negative feedback about the way I do things on the smaller subs, because according to some, mods like me don't "take care" of them enough, implying that a mod needs to actively do things to "make the sub alive" and "grow the sub". I can understand this position to an extent, but they fail to realize that people join band subreddits because they actively search for those communities, there doesn't need to be advertising to do, which would probably be perceived as a bit pushy anyway. That's how I came across every single one of the music subreddits I joined. Subs "come alive" when a band puts out a new album, when a band starts a new tour, has new merch... etc.

But the core reason why I encourage you to do like I do, is because nobody else is doing it. Even the laziest mod doing the bare minimum makes the whole community 100 times better than a sub being private or restricted. If someone appears willing to do a better job at moderating, posting and growing a sub, they're of course very welcome to join the mod team.

So if you feel like helping the community, you could try requesting :

METAL / ROCK BANDS

BANNED

RESTRICTED

UNMODERATED

INEXISTANT (could be worth creating)

OTHER RANDOM STUFF

BANNED

RESTRICTED

Posted Oct 6, 2025, 12:48 PM UTC

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