Having an Automod Page Stops New Post Notifications Arriving

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/n9x8b0/having_an_automod_page_stops_new_post/

created by Heat-Rises on 11/05/2021 at 13:39 UTC*

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Hey Everyone,

I recently inherited a sub and would get notifications each time a new post was made in it. It struck me as weird, since the sub I already moderated didn't exhibit this same behaviour, despite notification settings matching up on both. After a couple weeks, I stopped getting the notifications from the new sub and decided to try and troubleshoot.

I created a new private subreddit for testing. With no automod page on the private sub, each new post produced a notification for me on the account that was acting as moderator. After creating an automod page, I stopped getting the notifications altogether. I then tried clearing the automod page to have no content to see if this allowed notifications to arrive again, but it didn't.

I've done my best at googling around this issue, but I can't find anything to suggest that this is a feature, or a known problem.

From my short experiment, it seems that having an automod page stops Mod Notifications about New Posts being sent out. Has anyone else encountered / experienced this?

Cheers,u/Heat-Rises

• **Edit #1:*** In the hour since, it appears that a notification since the Automod page was cleared has allowed the notification through. I'll try again later and re-instate Automod to see what happens. I have still so far been unable to get the notifications while the Automod page is populated.

• **Edit #2:*** It does indeed seem that re-instating Automod is sufficient to stop the notifications coming through. I.e. Automod on, no "New Post" notifications for Moderators. Automod file completely empty (as cleared using old.reddit), "New Post" notifications come through again.

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