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View submission: An important update on post requirements
Our goal is to democratize moderation so that more communities can flourish and any mod -- no matter their tech savvy -- can effectively foster their community. We have a long way to go but we’re making progress.
This is good news for modding as a whole, but spells bad for the fate of Automoderator - are there any current plans to phase it out as an in-built serviceable subreddit bot?
bringing rules and removal reasons to the forefront of the user experience on mobile
On thing that I always like to rant about is how easy it *could* be to remove a post just by changing its flair, and then let Automoderator handle the rest. Now that the focus seems to be on this, would it be possible to get some form of feature that allows it to happen? I.e. either allowing this old 'hack' by Deimorz to work again (possibly by allowing Automoderator to detect a change in flair)[1], or by having designated 'removal flairs' that are set up via subreddit settings to allow for anonymous removals?
I say this as many communities' mods choose to use anonymous removal reasons when removing posts in order to reduce the amount of harassment they get, and the only way to currently do that is via a 3rd party bot that handles it - not ideal to set up/adjust for those moderators who aren't so tech-savvy/are on mobile. I know that there are some that you can just invite to your subreddit, but this would make it more accessible.
Not sure if this is already an internal idea, given how common of a bot it is, but I thought I'd give it a quick mention.
(Side-note on the 'hack' thing - I've tried literally every combination of getting that old rule to work. It just won't. I know that there is a way to trigger an AM removal via a flair change *and* report, but it's not nearly as useful/time efficient.)
Comment by lift_ticket83 at 20/04/2021 at 21:17 UTC
20 upvotes, 5 direct replies
This is good news for modding as a whole, but spells bad for the fate of Automoderator - are there any current plans to phase it out as an in-built serviceable subreddit bot?
We have no plans to phase out automoderator - we love seeing all the creative use cases our mods develop for that helpful little bot, and are excited to see them continue to do so. We just want to make native to reddit some of the most common use cases we see being employed by mods.
Regarding part II of your post - I believe there are a few bots on the site that could accomplish this ask (ex: flair_helper[1]), though this is something that we could potentially make more native to the site down the road.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Flair_Helper/wiki/tutorial/config
Comment by epicmindwarp at 21/04/2021 at 16:02 UTC
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On thing that I always like to rant about is how easy it could be to remove a post just by changing its flair, and then let Automoderator handle the rest.
The moderation bot that I built, all you have to do is change the flair, and it takes the rest of the instructions from Toolbox.
It removes the submission, changes the flair to the appropriate one, and even leaves a comment, exactly as you would do from toolbox. Even locks the post.
And it keeps a running log of every activity, who triggered it etc.