Reddit's Help Center, accessible at support.reddithelp.com, is the platform's official documentation resource for both regular users and community moderators, and it organizes its content into two broad audience tracks with a series of topic-based sections within each. The general user documentation covers the fundamentals of using the platform: account creation and management, profile settings, understanding karma and awards, using the voting system, Reddit Premium and subscriptions, privacy and safety settings including two-factor authentication and blocking, understanding rules and reporting, and navigating the differences between Reddit's mobile app and web experience. Each article is written in plain language with step-by-step instructions where relevant. The moderator documentation is considerably more extensive, reflecting the complexity of community governance. It covers the full suite of moderation tools: post and comment removal, banning and muting users, setting up automated moderation through AutoModerator (Reddit's built-in rules-based bot), configuring community settings, applying for special community programs, handling reports, and managing escalations to Reddit administrators. There is also a Moderator Help Center that parallels the user Help Center but is specifically framed for community managers. Reddit additionally maintains the r/modnews subreddit for official announcements to moderators, and r/ModSupport for community moderators to ask questions of each other and of Reddit staff. The Help Center underwent significant reorganization following Reddit's expansion and its 2024 public listing, as the platform invested in improving its documentation quality. For questions not answered in the Help Center, Reddit maintains r/help and r/NewToReddit as community-supported spaces where both users and volunteer helpers address practical questions.
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Module 2 — Accounts, identity, and profiles
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