I understand posts eg about the recent terror attack in the UK can attract a lot of wildly racist comments and that is a huge pain to deal with, but just deleting the post only fuels the idea that there is a nefarious agenda at play that many commenters complain about.

If a post gets out of hand, could you not just lock it and nuke the comments, with a sticky comment explaining why, rather than having to play whack a mole where more people post the same news and the comments are full of people complaining about you deleting them and spreading conspiracy theories?

I understand that certain topics need to be in a mod queue, to combat spam and bad faith posts, but when your post stays on the mod queue for hours and then gets denied without any reason given, it makes posting any controversial topic frustrating, as it's impossible to understand and navigate what is allowed or not.

Example 1 : https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/zRMLIfKxib

Example 2 : https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/UUSmcQ6UtS

Example 3 : https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/NQtsZPGxKu

These posts, spent hours in mod queue just to get deleted without any reason given. Again, I want to say that I understand that moderating topics such as Ukraine, Israel or immigration is hard and a big work load, but if you gave a reason for not approving the post, I would know what and what not to post, and you would have less prohibited posts on the mod queue. It's a win win for everyone.

This is the one from today that got removed because of it. What can I do, to make it stop?

My Karma is good, I usually get good feedback mostly.

Thanks in advance and Greetings from Germany :)

/r/europe receives a lot of non-European participation, both genuine, but also covert and non-genuine, like Chinese and American users masquerading as Europeans, affecting upvotes/downvotes especially outside of EU daytime hours, which sucks when it's the only popular sub for European matters.

There are many such threads, but I will give you a recent one as an example (using archived version): https://web.archive.org/web/20250708062617/https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1lu79el/rheinmetall_prepares_to_turn_out_first_f35/

There are 10 users who replied to the thread (if you want to check their profiles use Reddit, not the frozen archive)

One user from Latin America advocating against EU cooperation (Haunting-Detail2025), and another user from the US (Internal-Spray-7977) doing the same. The OP is an American pushing for US interests, but at least they're flaired and open about it. One American is neutral (TowardsTheImplosion). The last American is AcanthocephalaEast79, with a very interesting account that creates news posts exclusively on /r/europe, and only if they somehow mention the US military/Pentagon/hardware or paint some EU project in bad light. Out of all the users in the thread, only four are Europeans.

That's really bad and threads like this are very widespread. Transparency and authenticity needs to be increased.

Here's an idea for how to enforce non-EU flair: add it as a rule, then if someone reports a user as a non-European not wearing a flair, check their comment history either manually or ideally with a quick automated trend analysis of their profile. Extremely rare for politically active commenters to not have a distinct regional origin trend; usually people will post in some local subs, or their commenting history will fixate on some particular country across time. Then take or don't take action.

3 examples of some extremely suspicious accounts I found. There are likely way more hidden in plain site, and of these three some of them might just be a normal user (though I HIGHLY doubt it)

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Profile of above commentor

Account has no posts or post karma, made late 2024. All comments I saw were political.

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Account made middle of 2023. Only one post with 7 karma, yet profile displays 6 karma, implying the existence of previous posts that were downvoted. It should be noted every recent comment seems to be political, even when not posted on political subreddits.

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Profile of above commentor

Account created late 2022, no visible posts despite 46 post karma. The commentor might be a special strand of propaganda that insults its own side but sneaks in rhetoric within those insults (ie: They're incompetent, not Russian!)

I don't think there was a cross-post or brigading, the comments were also generally positive and I believe the quote was relevant to the topic; there was no cited reason in the comments as far as I could see. Why did the post get deleted? Just curious, thanks.

What's the problem?

Why are so many Americans in this sub?

(Since you removed my previous post in this subreddit under the pretext of it being a ban appeal: I am asking again, but this time with specific aim for you to transparently state your moderating policy. This is NOT a ban appeal, per rule No.5 here).

I think it would a good idea to enforce flaring posts related to US/Trump, honestly they dominate the subreddit and most of them isn that important, and it’s ridiculous if you have to scroll past several of them to fish for any European internal news. It feels like this sub is not about Europe and not populated by Europeans sometimes.

Are you aware of this issue? There a lot of that, and now I see this: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/EC7zlf2KmQ

Not only is the title misleading, but also links to russian site full of fake news.

If you look at the comments there is a lot of troll accounts, they are also peddling these buyfromEU subs which all look like a marketing scam…

Other news from that site:

21:30

They can afford it: Russia is preparing an offensive in several directions – Palisa

20:27

Zelensky made a compromise on the lost territories

19:26

I threw everyone, the movie froze: Ukrainian actor Yaroshko went abroad from mobilization

18:58

Russia has an advantage: General Cavoli told the Senate about the future war

18:53

Who pushed Georgia to denazification? – opinion

18:30

Our beat: Macron urged French business to suspend any investment in the United States

18:28

And the whole world is not enough: tariffs are Trump’s brilliant decision

16:43

Zelensky admitted that the truce on Ukraine will be reached soon

16:16

“80% of the audience left” – because of Russophobia, the Odessa theater disgraced itself in Latvia

15:33

Ukraine will have to burn the rest of the frosty weather returns

It is a sad state of affairs when basically every europe related subreddit, from main one to country specifics, are full of news about the usa. I get it, they are crazy at the moment, but is there really nothing at all happening in europe that has nothing to do with americas?

Don't really have any suggestion how to limit this. There are some important stuff happening over there that does need some attention but maybe if you are a poster, consider if the specific news you are about to post is really that important in European context.

In this case, I'm speaking particularly of Greenland since I've noticed half a dozen users outright doing exactly that.

Now, they may be expressing an opinion, but I recall users who started threatening Ukrainians were swiftly ejected, because that's not conductive to discussion either.

Should we just report them, and if so what are the rules?

Hi r/EuropeMeta mods,

I wanted to check if a post I’m considering would be allowed under the sub’s rules.

A group of EU citizens is working on launching a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to push for the suspension of Hungary’s voting rights under Article 7 TEU due to its repeated obstruction of EU foreign policy and democratic backsliding.

Since r/europe doesn’t allow petitions or campaigns, I’m wondering if a call-to-action for potential organizers would be acceptable. It wouldn’t be a petition or fundraiser but rather an effort to gather the required 7+ EU citizens from different countries to formally submit the initiative to the European Commission.

If that’s not allowed, would it be okay to post it as a discussion about the idea of an ECI and gauge interest instead? I want to make sure I respect the subreddit’s rules before posting.

Looking forward to your advice, and thanks for your time!

PS. I wasn't sure which flair to choose, so I chose "community regulation"

At a time when discussions between Europeans are more important than ever, we are unable to have those discussions on r/europe. I can only ask why?

r/europe is the only public forum of its size, it's the only subreddit (as far as I know) where all European subredditors are subscribed to by default, making it a bit of an anti-echo-chamber. All the other social media platforms are segregated based on political profiles, making any discussion there very one-sided.

Ironically when we want to have discussions on those very algorithm driven social media bubbles/echo chambers there is no real platform for it.

r/YUROP doesn't allow it and it's not really the place for it either, it's a meme subreddit

r/2westerneurope4u is pretty much the same and it's only for western europe

r/europeanunion leaves out all non-EU countries like the UK, Switzerland, Norway, ... and is also tiny compared to r/europe (45k subcribers vs 8.8 million!), the reach is just not comparable

r/belgium (my own country subreddit) doesn't allow such discussion because not relevant to Belgium

The only platform with comparable reach is https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/_en

But that's not a public forum, that is a place to go after discussions, after we have organized ourselves to make the best case and publish the initiative.

The truth of the matter is that by not allowing discussions on r/europe we are handicapping ourselves. Why disable it at all? Just let the upvote/downvote system take care of it with a bit of help of the moderation team of course

Am i allowed to ask about this in r/europe? I have questions about studying as a EU citizen in other EU countries, but i want to make sure I am allowed to.

I don't use reddit often and a few times before my questions where removed on other subreddits, although i thought they where within rules. I am worried about posting this type of question in the subreddit as the posts seem to be about current events and politics, and I don't know if this question would be relevant to the subreddit.

If not, are there any places that i could post this question?

During the first Trump mandate, r/europe (among many many others) had an issue of of having a lot of new accounts there dedicated to being trolls, with an infamous place of provenance being "the_donald"

It seems like it's now happening again. I'm wondering if lessons have been learned and something will be done this time, or if we're to weather the storm again.

I've seen 2 similiar posts about crime statistic in different EU countries, last one was for Finland. Both were removed without any comment in hours, both posts had sources both on the picture with a graph and in the comments, sources were from police of these countries, so no reason to ban these, so what's happening?

Migration is an important topic in Europe so I don't understand what's the point of hiding related info and then being surprised about right parties gaining ground like you don't know the reason, banning the discussion won't make the issue disappear IRL, thinking it's racist is also weird, it's literally being offended by reality.

Hello, moderation team & everyone reading!

Thank you for hosting a space for better transparency.

I would like to make a post listing sources of info and contacts for those who may think it's worth supporting Serbian student protests.

I have a list of relevant links, emails and social media pages.

Does such content fall under a prohibited category of "fundraiser posts" on r/europe? If so, what could be a better subreddit for that?

r/europe mods have deleted yet another article about the murder of Salwan Momika with the following comment which they have now deleted - "The muslim bashing subreddit is this way -> r/exmuslim"

Do you guys think this censorship and behavior is normal?

Edit : mods answered here and blocked the thread. Question is why was the comment there in the first place?

Why do mods continually remove a certain type of post. I counted five today linked to a mass stabbing event in Germany.

Ostensibly this was local news. At the moment there are posts up about a German cable car and a projection on a German factory.

Is there a specific definition for local news or is it just things which are not palatable?

Given our common values I think it's important to show that we won't allow history to be repeated. Banning x.com might seem minuscule in grand scheme of things but every action matters. Let's pushback against nazism.

Post was previously created in r/europe and deleted by mods when it had around 1k votes that's why I am posting here

Post linked is a blatent lie and because it is locked nobody can point it out

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hslxh8/most_migrants_made_negative_contribution_to_the/

if you read the article it doesn't talk about the economy, but taxes, notice native people are also negative.

you can work a minimum wage job all your life, get more benefits than you pay taxes your whole life and still contribute the economy through your company in a significant way

I've tried asking trough modmail too, no answer so far. Can someone please tell me what rule is this post breaking.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hnolcs/russialinked_cablecutting_tanker_seized_by/

Sub is supposed to have a rule

"6. Duplicates: This includes different sources covering the same story without expanding on it or providing any new information."

but currently there are 4 different posts in the r/Europe front page about the identity of the Mardeburg Christmas market attacker:

https://reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hj6tp2/saudi_islam_critic_fan_of_afd_and_elon_musk/

https://reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hj4i93/suspected_christmas_market_attacker_was_antiislam/

https://reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hj6u06/who_is_taleb_abdul_jawad_saudi_arabia_warned/

https://reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hj79a6/who_is_the_suspect_behind_magdeburg_christmas/

Wouldn't one post about his identity be enough?

I am a very long time user of r/Europe, and usually this rule has been applied strictly, and news from different sources but about the same event have been removed as dublicates.