Moderator Toolbox

Moderator Toolbox (often just "Toolbox") is a free, community-built browser extension that adds a large set of moderation features to Reddit's interface for the volunteers who run subreddits. Installed via the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons, it overlays tools that streamline tasks the native interface handles slowly or not at all. Its features include enhanced mod queue and removal tools, a mod button for quick actions, an improved modmail experience, a domain tagger, a notifier, and shared user notes that let a mod team record and see prior interactions with a given user. Its configuration and data are stored in versioned JSON on subreddit wiki pages, so settings and notes are shared across a team.

Developed and maintained by the open-source "toolbox-team" on GitHub, Toolbox became a near-essential utility for many moderators, especially on Reddit's older desktop site, by reducing the manual effort of repetitive enforcement and record-keeping. Because it is a third-party project rather than an official Reddit product, its long-term viability has depended on volunteer maintainers and on remaining compatible with Reddit's interface changes; shifts in Reddit's design and data access have periodically threatened tools like it. Toolbox illustrates how much of Reddit's moderation infrastructure has historically been supplied by the unpaid community itself rather than by the company.