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How to request a sub which was banned for rule violations after spam bots got mod access

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Hi everyone. I am looking for advice on how to proceed with a community I was part of that was recently banned and for which I want to become a mod of (post reinstation) after the sub was attacked by bots that got mod access.

About two days ago, the subreddit r/Freminetmains_ was attacked by spam bots that promoted illegal video streams. The original mod was inactive from day 1, and I don't know how, but bots got mod access and spammed the sub for hours with posts and comments. This led to the sub being banned for a Rule 2 violation.

As someone who really liked this community and because there was really nothing me or fellow users could do other than to report the bots, I want to get the community reinstated and take over as the mod to clean it up and prevent something like this from happening again. However, I am hitting a wall with the standard redditrequest process. Because the malicious accounts were technically active mods right before the ban, the automated system sees that as recent mod activity. And since I wasn't a mod beforehand, I can't contact mod support via private mail.

I did actually contact the previous mod twice before because I feared that something like this might happen, but I never received a reply and because nothing bad ever happened before that day I sadly didn't follow up with request back when the sub was alive. Freminetmains_ was always a harmless place where members of the community simply wanted to discuss the builds, strategies, stories, and other aspects of a character many of us cared deeply about, and it saddens me to see it gone because of an attack that was outside the control of any active users.

Has anyone any idea on how I can move forward with such a specific request? I couldn't find posts talking about something similar and none of the channels reddit directed me to are letting me talk to a human. So I appreciate any advice on what could be done here