Is removing posts after 24 hours to stay under the 100k weekly visitor limit allowed?

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With the new moderator limits now being enforced, I’ve noticed a pattern across several large NSFW subreddits.

Some mod groups appear to be using an App to automatically remove posts after around 24 hours. These are not small communities many of these subreddits range from 300k members to over 3 million members and without this practice they would likely exceed 200k+ weekly visitors quite easily.

At the same time, the same moderators continue moderating far more large communities than would normally be possible under the new 5 subreddit limit.

From the outside, this makes it look like the automatic post removals are mainly being used to artificially suppress traffic/visibility metrics in order to keep communities below the 100k weekly visitor threshold.

So I wanted to ask:

Is this considered acceptable under Reddit’s new moderator limit policy, or would this be viewed as intentionally circumventing the system?

Posted May 12, 2026, 8:04 AM UTC

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