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Reddit subreddit and community removal.

Some communities are built around a person, a company or a single grievance. Some problems are not in a post at all, they are in the community. What can be done depends on what the community does, not on who dislikes it.

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This is for you if

Sound familiar?

  • 01

    A subreddit is named after you or your business.

  • 02

    A community exists mainly to share private information or coordinate harassment.

  • 03

    The same community keeps hosting content about you and the moderators will not enforce their own rules.

  • 04

    A subreddit copies your brand to mislead people.

How Reddit handles this

What actually decides the outcome.

01

Two layers of moderation

Reddit's communities are run by volunteer moderators, who perform the majority of moderation actions without involvement from Reddit, Inc. Above them, Reddit's administrators enforce the Reddit Rules across the whole site. In the second half of 2024, 841,314 new communities were created, so most problems are first, and often best, resolved at the moderator level.

That is why we start by reading the community's own rules and approaching the moderators professionally, quoting those rules back to them. If that fails, or the moderators are part of the problem, the matter goes to Reddit's administrators.

02

When whole communities are banned

It does happen, but the record shows a high bar. In June 2015 Reddit banned five communities, including r/fatpeoplehate (over 150,000 subscribers), for using the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators did not act. Reddit's stated principle: "We're banning behavior, not ideas." In June 2020 Reddit banned about 2,000 communities after revising its policy, most of them already inactive.

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What this means for your case

A community that discusses your company critically is generally within the rules. One that organises harassment, posts personal information or impersonates you may not be. The realistic goal is often action on specific content or on moderator behaviour, and we will tell you if a community-level request does not have grounds.

How we handle it

Our route, step by step.

  1. 01

    Audit the community

    We review its rules, moderators, activity, top posts and how much of it concerns you.

  2. 02

    Start with the moderators

    A clear, professional request that quotes their own rules. Many problems end here.

  3. 03

    Find the policy hook

    Harassment, doxxing, impersonation and brand misuse are assessed against Reddit's content policy and its rules for moderators.

  4. 04

    Escalate with a record

    Where moderators fail to act, or are part of the problem, a documented platform-level report is made. Every contact is logged so each step is grounded.

Every step is logged.

Each action on your case is recorded with its date. You can read the log at any time in your client portal, and reply to us there.

The rulebook

Reddit rules that apply.

Reddit bans a whole community only for a pattern of rule-breaking. These are the rules that apply at community level.

  • Rule 1

    Remember the human

    For a whole community, Reddit looks at whether it is used to harass or threaten people, or to promote hatred based on identity or vulnerability. This is the rule behind community bans.

  • Rule 2

    Abide by community rules

    Communities are expected to follow the sitewide rules and not be used for spam or manipulation. A record of repeated violations is what separates a community-level problem from a single bad post.

  • Rule 3

    Respect the privacy of others

    A community that routinely publishes the personal details of the people it targets can be reviewed under this rule together with the harassment rule.

  • Rule 5

    Be authentic

    Communities built around fake accounts or deceptive impersonation can be reviewed here, often alongside the spam and manipulation rules.

Paraphrased from the official Reddit Rules. Moderators also enforce each community's own rules, under Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct.

By the numbers

What the data shows.

Communities are created all the time, and Reddit reviews them in large numbers.

  • 841,314

    new communities created in six months

    Volunteer moderators perform the majority of community moderation actions without involvement from Reddit, Inc.

    Source: Reddit Transparency Report · July to December 2024

Legal background

The law behind it.

Reddit has been asked in court to answer for what happens in communities. The outcome of these cases explains why the rules, not litigation, are the main route.

Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · 2022

Does v. Reddit, Inc.

51 F.4th 1137 (9th Cir. 2022)

Victims sued Reddit over child sexual abuse material posted by users. The Ninth Circuit held that Section 230 shielded Reddit from the claims, reading the statute's sex-trafficking exception (FOSTA) narrowly. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case in 2023.

Why it matters here: The clearest federal appellate ruling involving Reddit itself: Reddit is treated as a host of user content, not the publisher of it.

Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · 2008

Fair Housing Council v. Roommates.com, LLC

521 F.3d 1157 (9th Cir. 2008) (en banc)

A roommate-matching site required users to answer questions that allegedly breached housing-discrimination law. The en banc court held that a site that helps develop the unlawful content itself loses Section 230 immunity for that content, while passively hosting users' own words stays immune.

Why it matters here: It marks the limit of Section 230. A platform that merely hosts a community's posts is treated as a host, which is why the route to removal runs through its rules and reporting tools.

Real public cases

How it has played out.

Two public rounds of community bans that Reddit announced itself, and what it cited as the reason.

Public case · 2020 · not a client of ours

2020: Reddit bans about 2,000 communities after a policy rewrite

Type
Community-level enforcement after a policy change
Where
r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse and about 2,000 others
What happened
Reddit rewrote its content policy in June 2020 to ban communities and users that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability.
What was done
On June 29, 2020, Reddit banned about 2,000 subreddits, including several prominent ones. Most of the banned communities were already inactive.
Outcome
Communities that repeatedly broke the updated policy were banned.
What it teaches
Community bans follow published rules and repeated violations. Rule changes can also change what is removable, which is why we work from the current Rules and not from memory.

Public case · 2017 · not a client of ours

2017: Reddit bans r/incels for content that glorified violence

Type
Community-level enforcement for violent content
Where
r/incels, about 40,000 members
What happened
The community was filled with misogynistic content and celebrated violent figures, shortly after Reddit tightened its policy on violence.
What was done
On November 7, 2017, Reddit banned the community under its policy against content that encourages, glorifies, incites or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or group.
Outcome
The community was banned. Replacement communities that appeared were reported and removed.
What it teaches
A policy change can reclassify content that was tolerated before. Reports are strongest when they cite the exact policy clause and the specific content.

The outcome

What success looks like.

  • 1

    The community shows a banned notice

    A banned subreddit does not disappear with an error page. Visitors see a notice that it has been banned, and posting stops.

  • 2

    Members move, and we watch for it

    Communities that are banned sometimes reappear under a new name. We tell you if we see a successor and what it would take to report it.

  • 3

    Decision in writing

    We record the date and the notice Reddit showed, and give both to you.

Before you do anything

Mistakes that make it harder.

  • Reporting a community for being unpleasant

    Reddit acts on rule-breaking, not on communities that are merely critical of you.

  • Sending one post as the whole case

    A community report needs a pattern. One post is handled as a post.

  • Brigading the community

    Organising others to report or join in breaks Reddit's rules and can hurt your case.

While we work

You see every step.

Sign in with a one-time code sent to your email. Follow the case, reply to us, add links and evidence, and read your invoice there. The invoice is issued only after removal.

How it works

What we need

Send us this.

  • Subreddit name and URL
  • A list of the offending posts and comments
  • The rules the content breaks, and evidence of repeated targeting or private data
  • Any earlier correspondence with moderators, and Reddit's responses

Case studies

Related case studies.

Questions

About reddit subreddit removal.

Can a subreddit actually be removed?

Yes, in cases of serious or repeated policy violations. It is a high bar. Often the realistic goal is removing specific content or changing how moderators act.

Who decides, and can moderators be contacted?

Reddit's admins decide on site-wide policy. Moderators decide within their own community's rules and can be contacted through modmail. A polite, specific request works better than a demand.

Client feedback

What clients say.

  • Subreddit Removal

    “We had an entire subreddit discussion that was causing ongoing reputational issues. The team reviewed the situation, explained what could realistically be done, and worked through the process professionally. Very responsive throughout.”

    Michael R. · London, United Kingdom

  • Reddit Account / Community Issue

    “I needed help dealing with several Reddit-related issues affecting my online reputation. The team was responsive, transparent about the process, and didn't make unrealistic promises. The experience was professional from start to finish.”

    Laura B. · Vancouver, Canada

Client reviews, shared with permission.

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