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View submission: An important update on post requirements
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 Emmx2039 at 20/04/2021 at 21:21 UTC
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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.
This is nice to hear. Automod is great fun to mess around with, and learning how to use it has allowed me to understand modding a lot more than if I hadn't.
I believe there are a few bots on the site that could accomplish this ask (ex: flair_helper), though this is something that we could potentially make more native to the site down the road.
Sounds good :)
Thanks again for the updates!
Comment by tuctrohs at 21/04/2021 at 01:21 UTC
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It would be great to have flair_helper-like functionality for removing comments are well as removing posts. It's easier for me to remove a post, working from any platform, than it is to remove a comment and provide the user with the same kind of notification we do with post removal using flair_helper.
Comment by BuckRowdy at 21/04/2021 at 04:09 UTC
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The reason I use flair helper is because mobile mods report that it's easy to use. They love it. I also have it set up to leave a usernote with every post removal so if you're thinking about implementing something like this bot, which I would very much support, maybe you can add a feature where it leaves a mod note on the post. It just makes it very easy to reference if you can see all the notes on the user in a pop up window.
Comment by epicmindwarp at 21/04/2021 at 16:06 UTC
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Just an FYI, /u/Clippy_Office_Asst (and a few others off the same code base) does something almost identiical to flair_helper bot.
You configure Toolbox with your flairs, removal reasons, etc, then change the flair on the post you want to remove, and the bot takes care of the removal, flairs, locking, and leaves a comment to boot.
Very easy to mobile mod, and syncs up very nicely to existing toolbox functionality.
Toolbox configuration is stored in the Wiki, so one mod sets it all up on Toolbox, and everyone else will still benefit without having Toolbox installed e.g. mobile, other browsers etc.
Mobile users set the flairs, and the bot picks it up from the wiki.
Comment by itskdog at 21/04/2021 at 16:01 UTC
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Maybe use the existing removal reasons, combined with providing a "post as the sub" feature to remove the need for communities to have a shared team account for announcements that anyone on the team may want/need to edit after posting, so you could do "removal reason as the sub" or something similar via the same functionality? (Inspired by the send as the sub feature in modmail)