More tools to help make modding easier

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1erd9ei/more_tools_to_help_make_modding_easier/

created by lift_ticket83 on 13/08/2024 at 17:05 UTC*

92 upvotes, 30 top-level comments (showing 25)

Howdy, Mods

From Mod Queue improvements to community creation updates, this new batch of tools is all about making modding easier and more efficient. Below you’ll also find a handful of mod-focused Developer Platform[1] apps and tools, which help with everything from Modmail to comment removals. Without further ado, let’s get into it!

1: https://developers.reddit.com/

• *Boost your efficiency: Desktop Mod Queue improvements**

Since our last update[2], we've been working closely with mods to gather feedback and refine features that make it easier for you to get through your queue. Here are three new tools available today:

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1cryt4k/more_desktop_mod_queue_updates/

• Automod keyword highlighting: Flagged words will now be highlighted in the Mod Queue contextual panel, making it easier and faster to review and act on posts and comments.

Highlighted Automod words will now appear in Mod Queue

• Keyboard shortcuts: Navigate, review, and take action on posts and comments. These shortcuts will speed up your moderation process and reduce the need for endless clicking.

Utilize keyboard shortcuts to streamline your Mod Queue actions

• Macros, galore: This week, we’re excited to start rolling out Saved Responses (previously exclusive to mobile), allowing mods to craft saved responses for Removals and Mod Mail. In the future, we plan to expand Saved Responses to additional areas like Bans, and Comments.

As we continue to enhance the desktop Mod Queue experience, we want to remind you that we plan to deprecate the new.reddit Mod Queue before the end of the year. Before this transition, we're looking forward to introducing several new features in the coming months:

• Enhanced customization: Customize the order of mod actions in Compact view to fit your specific preferences and workflows.
• More filters: Tailor your queue to suit your individual needs with custom Queue filters.

Beyond these specific features, you’ll also see more enhancements like improved user insights, real-time indicators, and more. Stay tuned for updates as we finalize the deprecation timeline and roll out these new features.

• *Tools for mods by mods: Developer Platform apps**

A few months ago,[3] we unveiled our Developer Platform[4] and opened its beta program to the public. In case you’re unfamiliar with our Developer Platform (or just don’t feel like clicking those links), it’s a software development kit that gives developers a new way to generate interactive surfaces (like posts) to create games, utilities, moderation helpers, or weird social experiments on Reddit.

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/Devvit/comments/1ddmgah/welcome_to_rdevvit/

4: https://developers.reddit.com/

Today, we want to showcase some of the mod-focused apps that have emerged from it and may be helpful to you. Here are a few standout tools:

• Flair Assistant[5]: This tool automates actions based on flair changes, streamlining how mods handle post flairs.
• Modmail Quick User Summary[6]: This app provides a snapshot of a user’s history, recent posts, and comments directly from Modmail, making it easier to manage mod communications.
• Remove Macro[7]: This app allows you to quickly remove a user’s posts and comments from your subreddit, with an option to ban them if necessary—ideal for managing content and users efficiently.
• Comment Mop[8]: This tool is great for removing multiple comments at once, especially useful for handling comments that are getting out of control or starting to go off track.

For a deeper dive into the creative projects coming out of Reddit’s own Q Branch, check out r/Devvit. You can also check out our mod help center article[9] on Dev Plat apps and how to install them in your community.

5: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/flairassistant

6: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/modmail-userinfo

7: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/purge-user

8: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/comment-nuke

9: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/27688734657300-What-are-developer-platform-apps-and-how-can-I-add-one-to-my-community

• *Streamlined community creation: start new communities with ease**

Communities are *shock* what Reddit is all about. Building those communities can be a bit tricky, however, especially if you’re less than familiar with Reddit. We’re making a series of updates to the community creation experience to help new community creators build their corner of the internet.

• Updating the creation flow: To start, we’re overhauling the community creation flow, introducing a community preview within the flow, icon, and banner upload steps, and a topic selector, to help with community discovery earlier in their lifecycle. These updates are live on Android and reddit.com[10], with iOS coming soon.
• Getting started: You’ve created your community - now what? The next stage of updates will be focused on providing information and actions to take to help your new community get off the ground

Updated community creation flow[11]

10: http://reddit.com

11: https://preview.redd.it/9bh3bdbejgid1.png?width=1850&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d3c8b1a0d4df7b4349d9868e4c3b26480eef965

• *Detect unwanted content: ban evasion filter enhancements**

We recently upgraded the ban evasion filter[12] to better detect and filter content from users who create alternate accounts to continue unwanted behaviors after being banned. These improvements not only speed up detection but also reduce the chances of filtering content from redditors who have recently been unbanned. If your community has the ban evasion filter enabled, you might have noticed an increase in content appearing in your Mod Queue due to these updates.

12: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/articles/15484544471444-Ban-evasion-filter

This update is live now for all communities with the ban evasion filter enabled. Thank you to all the communities who participated in the experiment leading up to this point—your feedback was invaluable.

As a quick reminder, the ban evasion filter is an optional subreddit setting that helps identify posts and comments from potential ban evaders, aiming to save you time and protect your community from negative impacts. Since its launch last year, our improved systems have boosted ban evader detection by 35%.

We're committed to further enhancing our suite of safety moderation filters~ and we'll share more updates in the coming weeks.

For more information on all mod safety filters, please visit The Mod Help Center[13].

13: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/15484574845460-Safety

Improved ban evasion filter

• *Additional quality-of-life feature launches**

• Community Highlights: Now available to 100% of subreddits on desktop. Check out our recent [14]to learn how you can use Community Highlights alongside Community Status, Community Guide, and Temporary Events to better manage events and key moments in your community.
• Comment Guidance: Building on the success of Post Guidance, we’ll be launching Comment Guidance for mods this week, before launching the user-facing portion later in August! We want to give mods time to set up their configurations before turning this on for users. This feature will help educate users about your community’s unique commenting guidelines.

Preemptively alert your users when they may be breaking a rule with Comment Guidance[15]

14: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1efbuyi/new_tools_to_help_manage_events/

15: https://i.redd.it/42jfpamfigid1.gif

• Mobile Banner Uploads (a long-time coming feature): You’ll soon be able to update your community banner image right from Reddit’s app! This feature will roll out over the next several weeks, starting with Android.

We hope these updates make modding a bit easier and more efficient for you. If you have any questions or feedback related to the features we discussed today, please let us know in the comments below!

edit: formatting

Comments

Comment by SampleOfNone at 13/08/2024 at 17:27 UTC*

17 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Macros, galore: This week, we’re excited to start rolling out Saved Responses (previously exclusive to mobile), allowing mods to craft saved responses for Removals and Mod Mail. In the future, we plan to expand Saved Responses to additional areas like Bans, and Comments.

I noticed that in the app, saved responses counts towards the number of removal reasons you have. Will the total number be increased from its current 50? Saved responses to use in modmail don’t really have an overlap with removal reasons, and I can see needing even more different ones when it comes available for bans and comments. Special shout out to auto modmail[1] to help lessen the load of common questions in mod mail

1: https://developers.reddit.com/apps/auto-modmail

comment guidance

Woohoo!

Not to be a debby downer, I truly look forward to setting up comment guidance, but is there any news on the ability to specify if a rule is case sensitive or not? I still have a bunch of post guidance rules that don’t work now that it’s all case insensitive by default.

If you’re mentioning ban evasion filters, for mods who find the ban evasion filter works well in their use cases and who always want to ban ban evaders, check out evasion guard

Comment by shiruken at 13/08/2024 at 17:26 UTC

19 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Building on the success of Post Guidance, we’ll be launching Comment Guidance for mods this week, before launching the user-facing portion later in August!

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Comment by SampleOfNone at 13/08/2024 at 19:15 UTC

7 upvotes, 1 direct replies

u/lift_ticket83 sorry, Bug report 🙁

IPadOS Safari 17.6.1 desktop, horizontal mode

Mod tools - saved responses, there appears to be a scaling issue because the edit and delete buttons are missing (they are present in MacOS Safari)

Comment by PhoenixMichael at 13/08/2024 at 20:27 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Preemptively alert your users when they may be breaking a rule with Comment Guidance

Can this actually stop the comment from being post or will it just warn them?

Comment by SolariaHues at 13/08/2024 at 22:43 UTC

7 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Awesome, thanks for the update and the new tools.

Where's the best place to feedback on the new UI in regards to moderation? I've used the form shared on r/help a few times, so I hope that's getting to you.

Comment by Xenc at 13/08/2024 at 17:41 UTC

12 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Is this the good timeline? 🤯

Around keyboard shortcuts, CMD+Enter to confirm like you could on new Reddit would be super useful in general around the platform.

Comment by bizude at 13/08/2024 at 21:20 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Tools for mods by mods: Developer Platform apps

Would be nice to have a more user-friendly pushshift access to assist with moderation.

Comment by SCOveterandretired at 14/08/2024 at 00:20 UTC*

3 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Hi, former returning Mod here, been reading all the new changes in the last few months of ModNews and loving all the new tools and changes. I took a mental health break for a few months.

Question 1 - Is the intent of Post/Comment Guidance to replace automoderator bot?

Question 2 - I'm familiar with old.reddit and new.reddit and how to get to both on desktop - may I please have a link to the newest version of reddit that is replacing new.reddit at the end of the year?

Question 3 - Will the Content Controls -> Ban Words from post title/body be going away because of the new Post/Comment Guidance Tools?

Thank you

Comment by Mlakuss at 16/08/2024 at 05:00 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Will scheduled posts be able to access slots 3-6 of highlighted posts?

Comment by Khyta at 13/08/2024 at 23:05 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Those are some gorgeous updates! Can't wait for comment guidance and thank you very much for the macros!

Comment by EdenFlorence at 14/08/2024 at 00:22 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Thanks for the update. Was wondering when will the features of Community Highlights, Community status and communtiy guide be available on the official reddit app.

Comment by esb1212 at 14/08/2024 at 11:31 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Here's my feedback for AutoMod keyword highlighting[1] in Mod Queue.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/s/oy3OqvUaoY

Comment by david-1-1 at 15/08/2024 at 17:14 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Nice, but how come every large company, including Reddit, sets fixing bugs as their lowest priority?

Comment by abortion_access at 15/08/2024 at 19:21 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

But do any features work properly on mobile or nah

Comment by xj4me at 14/08/2024 at 12:27 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

As a moderator of a small automotive subreddit is there any way to disable getting notifications anytime someone says the word "mod"?

We have people who talk about car mods all the time and it's annoying to have to get flooded with this

Comment by Sniper_geek at 15/08/2024 at 18:21 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Awesome.

Comment by Rajio at 16/08/2024 at 12:31 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

We've added some saved responses in mod tools but dont see how to use them. where should the option come up?

Comment by VA_Network_Nerd at 13/08/2024 at 17:13 UTC

9 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Will the controls for these features be integrated into old.reddit (aka real reddit) ?

Comment by BelleAriel at 13/08/2024 at 18:10 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Thank you. Looking forward to these.

Comment by Merari01 at 13/08/2024 at 19:59 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

All very nice QOL additions. Thank you!

Comment by pitchingschool at 15/08/2024 at 19:58 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Return 3rd party apps. They had this and more

Comment by fusion260 at 02/09/2024 at 11:51 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

19 days later and there **still** isn’t a way to view Community Highlights on the mobile app or even manage them as a moderator.

Pinning things now is absolutely worse from a moderator perspective than the previous pinning workflow. Now we constantly have to go in and reorder things, unpin other things, and manually specify whether it should use a post flair or custom label since we’re not always asked.

Automod and scheduled posts and Devvit can’t define pinning positions or remove pinned items from specific positions.

And that was with the extra time you all had to fix whatever bugs prevented you from rolling it out months ago after initially announcing it was rolling out.

It’s like y’all just like giving us extra work to do without us getting anything in return.

• *This is a clown show.** Do you all even test the stuff you roll out or is this some Bill O’Reilly “F’ it, we’ll do it live” nonsense?

Comment by QtheCrafter at 14/08/2024 at 20:03 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Why is new.reddit mod queue going to be deprecated? I currently still try to exclusively use it(although with lots of resistance lol) and I know my mod team still prefers it. Is there any chance this could change and it will stay?

Comment by SampleOfNone at 15/08/2024 at 06:54 UTC*

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

u/lift_ticket83 , Feedback on saved responses. I'm running into problems with the new character limit of 1000 for saved responses which is less then the "old" removal reasons.

For instance, I can't fix a typo because the original removal reason exceeds a 1000 characters. Can saved responses please be set to the character limit of the "old" removal reasons?

Comment by yellowmix at 15/08/2024 at 22:42 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Keyboard shortcuts: Navigate, review, and take action on posts and comments. These shortcuts will speed up your moderation process and reduce the need for endless clicking.

Very nice! It's possible to expand content into the right panel and want to edit text (e.g., comment). Is it possible to temporarily disable the shortcuts when inside an editor/text box?