Comment by Blank-Cheque on 20/07/2020 at 16:55 UTC

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View submission: Introducing Flair_Helper

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There are a few reasons a subreddit might want to use a flairbot:

1. As you said, it makes it much easier to mod from mobile.

2. Sometimes people would prefer not to attach their usernames to a removal comment, for example if they're removing a controversial thread and the messenger will certainly be shot.

3. A few subs use flairbots to enforce a system like the reverse of /r/science, since you could give new mods only `flair` perms to restrict their modding to what's possible with the bot.

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Comment by [deleted] at 20/07/2020 at 16:56 UTC

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With #3 wouldn't that still give them the power to remove posts though?