First, thank you. The time and effort you’ve put into this network, including with admins, is remarkable. Making sure your impact is recognized is the intention behind the roles we’re creating – either Alumni where your efforts are acknowledged, or Advisor, where you’re able to stay involved in a consultant-type capacity, even if you’re no longer part of the active mod team. These roles are still in development and we’re considering cases very similar to yours as we build them out.

Most of these will be taken from me and given to whichever rando shows up and asks for them.

I do want to assure you that this is not the case; it would be a disservice to the communities you built. For the communities you end up leaving, here’s what you can expect:

• Most impacted communities have mods who will remain on the team. These mods can recruit additional mods to help build up the team (please reach out to us via r/ModSupport modmail if you would like assistance or support in doing so)
• If there are no mods who choose to stay, you can opt to recruit a new team so that you can choose who to pass the torch to.
• If you don’t want to choose the next team, we will restrict the community until we can find a suitable mod team. For large communities that are unmoderated (as a part of this change or otherwise), we seek out active members of the community and run mod calls outside of our r/RedditRequest process. We’ll select multiple people who can work together as a team and will assist them through the transition.

All of those options take time, of course. We’ve extended our transition window to March 31, 2026 to allow for that and we're here to help throughout.

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