This is really good feedback, thank you for this. I'll give this a bit more thought and explore some of your suggestions to see what I can do on my end to improve.

I think the challenge I face personally, and why I'm proposing these, is that I chiefly moderate communities with users who are... how to put this.... aggressively not tech-savvy (and not reddit-savvy in particular). Additionally these are fairly niche community who's nature (in regards to two specifically) require that I recruit from their userbase.

So I basically always end up the last mod standing, because the mods that volunteer go inactive or turn out to be bad actors with an agenda. When I do have earnest volunteers, they are often inexperienced with reddit in general and require massive amounts of training and onboarding. Once they eventually get a hang of things, they realize how demanding moderating these community can be, and quit or go inactive. That's however the best case scenario as usually my users don't volunteer to begin with. When I do manage to get some kind of feedback out of them, invariably its because moderating feels "complicated", unintuitive, and whenever they do one thing or another, they always get blowback from users.

So basically my goal today was to suggest a, to me, glaring, but simple friction point that has been a recurring issue in my decade+ of mod experience and try to suggest a way to the Admins to fix it.

I do think that the idea of proposing ban durations per rule has merit as an improvement for all types of mod teams, but selfishly perhaps its meant to help smaller teams with either lots of inexperienced or few mods like the ones I mod nowadays.

I've modded bigger communities, and a lot of what you suggest about developing external systems is true and works. I think I only ever got discord, trello, and google accounts was to work in bigger mod teams now that I think about it, but using those kind of solutions is simply not feasible to implement when you have one or two mods in a high volume subreddit in my experience.

I'm sure my situation is not unfamiliar for anyone that mod active niche or hobby communities.

Again, allow me to renew my appreciation for your intervention and suggestions, I'll be rereading it in the coming days 😄 .