What is AutoModerator?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/comments/q11pu/what_is_automoderator/

created by Deimorz on 22/02/2012 at 16:19 UTC*

40 upvotes, 2 top-level comments (showing 2)

AutoModerator[1] is a bot designed to automate various moderation tasks that require little or no human judgement. It can watch the new/spam/comments/report queues of any subreddit it moderates and take actions on submissions and comments based on defined conditions. This includes approving or removing them, sending alerts to modmail, etc. It is effectively fairly similar to reddit's built-in spam-filter, but allows for conditions to be defined specifically instead of just giving vague hints by removing/approving. Its decisions can always be overridden by human mods, exactly like the existing filter.

1: http://www.reddit.com/user/AutoModerator

Common uses of AutoModerator

• Approve all posts to the subreddit - effectively disables the spam-filter
• Send an alert to mod-mail when a submission or comment receives a few reports - often set at 2 reports for small subreddits, and 4-5 for larger ones
• Automatically remove a submission/comment that receives an extremely high number of reports (so it's most likely a serious problem) and send a mod-mail alert so the action can be verified as correct - often set at 5 reports for small subreddits, and 10-20 for larger ones
• Ban domains from the subreddit completely
• Automatically approve all self-posts or all submissions from certain "white-listed" domains
• Remove all image/meme posts
• Remove submissions where the title contains certain words or phrases
• Automatically report submissions or comments containing certain words or phrases
• Remove submissions where the title does NOT match a certain pattern - for subreddits that have required "tags" or strict title style rules
• Automatically remove comments containing links to certain sites - blocks piracy-related links, affiliate links, etc.

How do I use it in my subreddit?

Please follow the instructions here: https://github.com/Deimos/AutoModerator/wiki/Initial-wiki-setup

If you have any questions, feel free to post in /r/AutoModerator and someone should be able to help you out.

Comments

Comment by elasto at 21/04/2012 at 01:30 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Since it's so configurable, I think we should try it. Is it easy to activate and deactivate? If not, we should take that into account.

Comment by 7oby at 08/05/2012 at 07:00 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I mod r/jobs and we obviously get a ton of correctly marked and incorrectly marked spam. I have an idea for your bot (and would love to discuss ways for automod to help us, since it's a little complex).

Idea: let the bot have an option to auto remove posts from posters that have been sent to reportthespammers and up voted at least two times (or some threshold the manager can set).

Thanks!