Reddit moderators now can see automated profile summaries for users and can add hidden notes to your account

Reddit recently rolled out a feature that automatically generates a summary of users’ profiles and behavior when moderators hover over usernames.

You cannot currently see your own profile summary, only moderators can see it.

Additionally, moderators can attach “mod notes” to your username that are visible only to the mod team of that specific subreddit. These notes appear next to your username whenever you post, comment, or send modmail in that community. While mod notes can be used positively (to identify helpful community members), they can also flag users for increased scrutiny or mark them as problematic.

This means that moderators might be making snap judgments about you based on automated summaries or previous mod notes before even reading your actual contribution to their subreddit.

If you participate in politically controversial subreddits, gender based subreddits, religious subreddits, or communities that some mods view unfavorably, you could be experiencing preemptive bias regardless of whether your behavior in their subreddit is rule-breaking.

This applies across the political spectrum for both left-wing and right-wing moderators.

Note: It’s also worth knowing that many of Reddit’s largest subreddits hypothesized to be moderated by a small group of power users, which means systematic silencing across multiple major communities is possible. Reddit plans to limit accounts to moderating no more than 5 large subreddits starting in March, but this doesn’t address existing moderator overlap or potential multiple accounts from the same person.

If this is not the correct subreddit for this I can remove my post.