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Thanks for your response. I understand you're not the one who has set these policies, and you're handling the thread as well as you can do after being put in this kinda impossible position.
Most mods aren't developers, and we rely on Reddit making the infrastructure available to 3rd party developers with minimal issue. Given that we provide Reddit revenue by being a free source of labour, we also cannot be expected to financially support the tools we use to do this job, which is why pricing is an issue for users like us as well.
For vital tools like /u/SafestBot and others, which have both no native equivalents and absolutely no plans to develop any, what is Reddit's plan when this impacts moderators?
Without tools like /u/SafestBot, my subreddit would need to spend hours of time creating custom regex filters, pump crowd control settings to maximum everything, and then spend even longer manually going through the resulting mod queue. Right now, it's pride month, so we're getting back-to-back brigades alongside increased traffic from legitimate users, and /r/me_irlgbt is already being pushed to its limit WITH 3rd party tools.
What response does Reddit have for this user group, who now have to hope that 3rd party devs are wealthy enough on their own to afford the pricing structure laid out? A pricing structure which is not in line with market values, it must be said. I appreciate the promise of further moderation tools, but these tools still aren't enough.
There's nothing here!