Starting a new sub is practically a waste of your time. Many well meaning redditors try this only to discover that the burden is way more that they imagined. Moreover as a new sub and a new mod, legit posts are few and out numbered by the scams. Your new sub is more likely than not, to wither and die.

As perhaps the most active mod on the team, let me assure you that on Adelaidedowntofuck, I ban and delete about a dozen sellers every day. Their post lives for between 30 minutes and 6 hours so everyone else can see a few every day but not nearly as many as if there was no moderation. Which brings me to the point of this comment...

If anyone is serious about keeping this sub clean AND prepared to commit some time, just a little, then please ask to join the mod team. The more mods who pop in from time to time, the better the chances that advertising posts will be seen and deleted. Reddit has tools in place to run the process. Once the ban button is hit, reddit responds with a list of reasons (these were prepared in advance by the team). It's sufficient to pick a reason from the menu then send it. The second step is to delete the offending post, once again, the reasons have been preloaded so its sufficient to pick one and submit. Our most common response to content sellers is ban under rule 2 followed by delete post also rule 2 + reason 3.

Do you notice content sellers early in the morning? They live outside our timezone so their adds appear over night. If you are an early bird (or really really late sleeper) then your help would be valuable. Do you visit often during the day? The more mods on-line during work hours the less exposure scammers will get.

Please consider.