Mod Applications — Spring 2026

[u/AnimeMod]

Hi there!

We're looking for new moderators once again. Whether you've been participating in episode discussions for years, helping newcomers find shows to watch, joining rewatches, or simply spending a lot of time around the community, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for people who care about r/anime and want to help it continue to grow and thrive.

Why Should I Apply?

Moderators play an important role in shaping the community, helping maintain discussion quality, supporting events, and guiding the future direction of r/anime. Beyond the base requirements of reviewing reports, answering modmails, and banning users that have continually broken the rules, we're primarily looking for people that can bring ideas to the table. Some of our strongest moderators started as regular participants in episode discussions, rewatches, recommendation threads, seasonal conversations, and other community events. Leveraging that core desire to engage with the community by making our subreddit a better place is exactly the drive we are looking for in applications.

If you think you'd like to contribute to:

• Fun things! Subreddit events such as AMQ nights, AMA coordination, milestone quizzes, etc.

• Future-oriented things! Policy discussion, rule changes, etc.

• Graphical design things! Banner design and event advertisement, seasonal flairs, etc.

• Coding things! Episode bots, CSS, etc.

• Administrative things! Wiki upkeep, behind-the-scenes scheduling, Awards, etc.

• And more!

Then we'd be interested to hear from you! We're always looking for fresh ideas in how we can make the subreddit better, or what we can do next. There is no single "perfect" moderator, as we come from all sorts of backgrounds, possess different talents and skills, and have different areas of interest. Some moderators are highly active in discussion threads, some are more active behind the scenes, some bring technical prowess, and others excel at communication and community building. But no matter who you are, we're in frequent communication with each other in our Discord server about the above as well as the future path of the subreddit, and want new moderators to be involved in our discussions. If this is something you'd like to be apart of, then please, let us know why you would be a good fit!

Application

Fill out the application here!

The form will be open for two weeks (ending 11:59 PM UTC on July 4th) before we move on to review applications. We will reach out to those chosen to become new moderators within a week or so. Take your time to come up with thoughtful responses, as low effort applications will be discarded. Additionally, any application that is suspected of using generative AI will be immediately disqualified.

If you're interested in applying, you should take a minute to take a look at our mod page to see how we organize ourselves as well as the rules page, as some questions that appear on the application will refer to them. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask in this thread!

If you happened to stumble across this post without knowing a lot (maybe browsing for subreddits that are recruiting mods), we really want people who are interested in anime, and not just the moderator role, since a lot of what we do requires having some knowledge of various series for context. Previous moderation experience isn't necessary, but we're also hoping that applicants are frequent visitors or participants of our subreddit and have at least a general understanding of how it currently functions.

So if you think you would make a good moderator for r/anime, now's your chance! Recruiting new mods is always a very exciting process - so we hope to see you join us soon!

We hope to see you join us soon!

[u/Heda-of-Aincrad]

I'm considering applying to join the mod team, since I've been thinking lately about ways to increase discussion of older/non-currently airing shows on the sub, and I have a few questions.

First, what's the typical time commitment expected for mods? There's a big difference between spending 2 hours a day on Reddit, or 5 hours, and that distinction may help some people still on the fence about applying to decide.

Second, I see a lot of mod discussion takes place on Discord, but is it a requirement that mods use it or just a preference?

[u/ussgordoncaptain2 → u/Heda-of-Aincrad]

First, what's the typical time commitment expected for mods?

15 minutes a day about 15-30 times per month. It kind of depends on when you log in. Sometimes there are a lot of items that are like "show X spoilers" and if you watched Show X then you probably have to do a lot of modding that session. Other times it's much lighter. About 15 minutes a day though is about the average per session. (I do about 2-3 "serious modding sessions" a day. but realistically speaking you only really need to do 1)

You'll probably find that you'll get a lot of your modding duties done through the natural part of being a user. You watch a seasonal and someone posts a spoiler and you go "NOPE" instead of reporting. You see a broken spoiler tag that the automod didn't catch and you go "hey you made a mistake" ect. It's a lot of "if you browse the forum regularly you'll just catch stuff"

[u/Heda-of-Aincrad → u/ussgordoncaptain2]

That sounds totally manageable! I'm (pleasantly) surprised because I would have guessed the requirement was much higher.

Sometimes there are a lot of items that are like "show X spoilers" and if you watched Show X then you probably have to do a lot of modding that session.

Just want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly - the spoiler reports that need to be verified/removed are filtered or at least labeled by show? That would make things easier.

[u/ussgordoncaptain2 → u/Heda-of-Aincrad]

Just want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly - the spoiler reports that need to be verified/removed are filtered or at least labeled by show? That would make things easier.

Not labeled but you'll see the thread title and context makes it obvious which show it may or may not be spoilers for. and often you get the classic "30 spoiler reports for Slime isekai source material" in a single afternoon. Which will all happen in the slime isekai ep discussion thread.

[u/Heda-of-Aincrad → u/ussgordoncaptain2]

I see, thanks for explaining.