How To Delete Reddit Community
This video explains how to delete or effectively remove a Reddit community (subreddit) from public visibility. While Reddit does not allow moderators to permanently delete a community once it has been created, you can make it disappear from public access by making it private, removing all moderators, and leaving the community yourself. This process ensures that no one else can post, comment, or view the subreddit unless explicitly invited.
The video begins by clarifying that full deletion of a subreddit is not possible under Reddit’s current policies. However, you can restrict access by changing the community’s privacy settings. To start, open the Reddit app or go to [https://www.reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com) and log in to the account that created or manages the community. Then tap on your profile icon or the menu bar, and navigate to “Your Communities.” Select the subreddit you wish to remove from public access.
Once inside your subreddit, tap the three-dot menu or the “Mod Tools” button. From there, go to “Community settings.” Scroll down to find the “Type of community” section and change the setting from “Public” or “Restricted” to “Private.” This prevents new members from joining and hides the subreddit from search results and browsing feeds.
After making the community private, the next step is to remove yourself as a moderator. Go back to the “Moderators” list under “Mod Tools,” select your username, and remove yourself. Once you do this, the community will no longer have any moderators, leaving it effectively inaccessible and abandoned.
The video also mentions that this approach is permanent in practice—although the subreddit technically still exists, it will be invisible to other users and no longer functional. This is the only available method to “delete” a Reddit community.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:11 Explanation: Reddit communities can’t be fully deleted
0:28 Open Reddit and go to Your Communities
0:52 Access Mod Tools and Community Settings
1:08 Change community type to Private
1:12 Remove yourself as moderator
1:20 Conclusion
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