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title: "What do Reddit moderators get out of being mods on Reddit?"  
description: "What do Reddit moderators get out of being mods on Reddit?"  
author: "Austin Dcruz"  
published: 2022-02-24  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96090/what-do-reddit-moderators-get-out-of-being-mods-on-reddit  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["reddit", "troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What do Reddit moderators get out of being mods on Reddit?

What do Reddit moderators get out of being mods on Reddit?

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## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

**[Redditors](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96097/how-do-i-increase-reddit-karma-in-7-days)** who give their time to assist guide and create Reddit's many communities are known as moderators, or mods for short.

- Each Reddit community has its own purpose, look, and regulations, such as what posts are appropriate for that community and how users should act.
- Mods can accomplish a variety of things in their communities, including:
- Make it clear that their posts or comments are moderator submissions.
- Their community's posts and comments will be removed.
- Spammers and other Redditors who may be violating community rules should be barred from posting or commenting in your community. Other Redditors can be made moderators.
- A list of the moderators of a community may be found on the right sidebar of the website. On the mobile app, the list of moderators may be seen under the About page of a community. Moderators are not Reddit employees and have no unique abilities outside of the community they oversee. \ \

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