24 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Voting & commenting on archived posts
This was a 2.86% increase in votes and a **1.48% increase in comments** amongst the participating subreddits.
This additional engagement also caused only a **0.3% increase in mod actions taken**. We were excited to see that the increase in comments and votes did not correlate to a significant increase in mod actions taken.
You make it seem like this is a good thing. But logically you would expect the increase of mod actions to be about equal to the increase of comments. The fact that is not the case just means that almost all of those comments are basically invisible to moderators.
Anyway, you already gave us a solution for that (new AM feature and opt out), so I'm not complaining. But I also don't particularly enjoy the PR twisting here.
Comment by baxter8421 at 29/09/2021 at 21:50 UTC
12 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This is a fair concern, but one thing that we also did to assess the quality of these comments was to manually review them and send them to mods in each subreddit to determine if they were lower quality than average. While certainly some of the difference that you mentioned is due to mods not seeing the comments (and hence why we added the new Automod updates), a vast majority of these comments were deemed high quality during our manual review.
Comment by Drunken_Economist at 30/09/2021 at 14:40 UTC
5 upvotes, 2 direct replies
The increase in expected mod actions would equal the increase in comments only if the comments were randomly distributed.
In this case, engagement on old posts are more likely to be from high-intent users, while that on fresh posts is more likely to come from "drive by" users