What did you most need help with when you first became a subreddit mod?

These are answers to one of my surveys. Respondents are mostly from mod help subs, and r/samplesize.

It's interesting to see what others have struggled with, and if you have trouble with any of these things you can see you are not alone in that.

Of course these responses also helped inform some guides, and any not covered yet are on the list!

Index

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• Modmail Beta was only just added and it didn't really work well
• CSS (more to come on this)
• Automoderator
• How to word responses to users
• Old reddit
• When to give slack or not on rules
• Growing my subreddit
• Knowing what I needed to do
• How to change the look and feel of my sub
• Starting rules
• How to use all the various mod tools
• Getting the grasp of toolbox and other moderation apps, add-ons, and 3rd party sites (snoonotes, removeddit, apollo, etc)
• Figuring out whether my sub is even permissible according to Reddit's rules
• Going through all the posts and handling influx
• Finding people to post on my subreddit
• I'm stuck on mobile and didn't realize mobile was so far behind the browser version
• The lack of community among the moderators (there are some communities out there; r/substarters on discord, the mods discord linked at r/modhelp, and I'm sure some I don't know about yet! )
• No collective standards and strategies
• Added to a team, no training, wasn't sure of my duties
• Dealing with upset users
• Styling
• Being prepared for the unknown

Where did you find help?

Most respondents felt they got the help they needed, but, very roughly 23% did not, though the sample size is very small.

• Figured it out with trial and error
• r/csshelp
• r/AutoModerator
• u/BuckRowdy
• Advice from other mods
• r/needamod
• Looked most of it up on other subreddits / reddit / google
• r/substarters
• r/modhelp
• r/ModSupport
• r/modguide

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Thank you very much to everyone who took the survey. They're still open and all current surveys can be found linked in the menu tabs, wiki, and sidebar.

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Please join in and share your experiences as a new mod in comments.

More results to come from this survey, stay tuned! ;D here