What if I don't want to mod anymore?
If you no longer wish to moderate a subreddit, here's what you can do.
If it's your sub/you're top listed mod
Subs cannot be deleted, so ideally you'll pass your sub on to someone else.
- If there are other mods on your sub, you can make sure someone has full permissions and then leave. Ideally you'd talk with your mods first.
- If you are a lone mod, you can find someone to adopt your sub, perhaps at r/adoptareddit. Add them as mod with full permissions, wait until they've accepted, and then leave as moderator.
- You can also find people to mod at places like r/substarters discord and r/needamod.
- You can "close" your sub by making it private, and leave as mod too. This isn't a surefire way of "closing" it forever, as someone could request it on r/Redditrequest.
- You can simply leave as mod - if you were the only one, or if the other mods are inactive, your sub will now be unmoderated. In rare cases, without moderator oversight, some subreddits' users may start breaking the content policy and quarantine criteria, thus resulting in a quarantine of the subreddit. Unmoderated subs are able to be requested by others at r/redditrequest, but there is no guarantee anyone will.
- If you created the sub it will always say 'created by yourusername' unless you delete your account, then it will say 'created by [deleted].
If you're not top listed mod
- You can just leave. Ideally you'd talk with the other mods first.
- If you were the only active mod, and have permissions to add new mods, you could find someone else to take over. r/needamod r/substarters
How to leave
Related guides:
- Adding new mods
- Choosing new mods
- Problems within a mod team
- Private, restricted, or public subreddits
Big thanks to u/MFA_Nay
Posted Dec 9, 2019, 7:45 PM UTC · edited
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