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View submission: Voting & commenting on archived posts
We actually thought about your suggestion during our internal conversations and while useful we also had to take into consideration the potentially negative implications of it (ex: it would be a negative user experience if comments were removed on, say, posts older than 30 minutes).
The updated flag that we created is a direct response to the behavior of the archive toggle. We also had to gameplan for the future and any potential changes we make to archived posts down the road.
Comment by dequeued at 29/09/2021 at 20:42 UTC*
68 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I think that should really be up to subreddits, but if you don't want to allow such an option to match on anything as young as 30 minutes, then you could simply limit the age parameters to `days`, `weeks`, `months`, and `years`.
Having this functionality built into /u/IndexBot has caught a lot of spam on older submissions for us on /r/personalfinance, but writing a custom moderation bot is something that's not in the reach of most subreddits. (We also have it `filter` matches so they can be reviewed before being seen since scammers are common, but doing that via a custom bot is extraordinarily difficult because the `filter` action is only available to AutoModerator so some crazy hacks are required to `filter` from a custom bot, especially on comments.)
Comment by electric_ionland at 30/09/2021 at 07:45 UTC
17 upvotes, 0 direct replies
As an example on r/askscience we have put a trigger like that on posts older than a week talking about COVID because we were getting a lot of conspiracy and disinformation spam that we were not necessarily catching live. There are quite a few accounts doing that old thread spam thing. Having it more automated and not just relying on the awesome scripts /u/sexrockandroll writes would be great.