Reddit rolls out new mod tools with smarter Post Guidance, onboarding features, and poll insights

Reddit has been steadily adding moderator tools over the past year, and the latest batch is one of the more substantial ones. The update covers post filtering, removal workflows, new mod training, and more.

The changes were announced in a post on r/modnews. It includes Post Guidance improvements, AI-suggested removal reasons, a new mod onboarding and training system, translation indicators, segmented poll results, and a discovery push for smaller subreddits.

Post Guidance can now detect links and check them against your community’s existing rules. If someone is about to post something that breaks a link rule, they get a warning before it goes live instead of finding out after. Image post titles are being scanned too, though actual image-level detection is still on the roadmap.

More is coming in April, including the ability to target configurations based on Post Flair and to tell apart parent and child comments.

Comments under the post suggest that people are divided over the AI-suggested removal reasons. When removing a post or comment, mods now see suggestions based on their existing reasons and the content being removed.

Reddit says it’s mainly useful for communities with very long removal reason lists. But one of the top comments on the thread called it “AI crap I have to scroll past,” with mobile mods taking the most issue with the added clutter. Similar frustrations showed up in r/ModSupport earlier this month when the feature first surfaced a few days ago.

The new onboarding tools are a cleaner story. Mods now get a structured setup guide and a training queue where newer team members practice on real examples from your subreddit, with veterans able to attach explanations for judgment calls. The guide goes live this week; the training queue starts rolling out next week. Reddit had been previewing this direction since early 2026.

Reddit is also starting to surface smaller, growing subreddits in the feeds of larger related communities. Communities are opted in by default, and mods can turn it off through Mod Tools > General Settings > Privacy & Discovery.

Several mods pushed back on this in the comments, saying it should be opt-in from the start. Reddit has defaulted communities into discovery features before, and the pushback tends to follow the same pattern each time.

There are also two smaller additions that round out the update. Translation indicators now appear in the mod queue for auto-translated content, and segmented poll results show how community members voted versus non-member visitors who dropped in.

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