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Great question and good catch. We’ve synced with the internal team that works on Crowd Control and our spam filters to ensure the issue you called out is fixed. However if your automod is set up to filter accounts by age limits those filters will apply until this new account surpasses those limits.
Comment by TheNerdyAnarchist at 16/08/2022 at 17:21 UTC
31 upvotes, 1 direct replies
To mods who have these rules and need a quick fix, just add a `~name:` line to your author block in the age rule to exempt the new account. For example:
---
author:
account_age: < 7
~name: ['yoursubreddit-modteam']
action_reason: Account too new
action: filter
---
Comment by ExcitingishUsername at 16/08/2022 at 20:04 UTC
15 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Shouldn't `moderators_exempt` apply here, since this *is a moderator account* and the default is to exempt moderators? This sounds like an actual bug if Automod is not recognizing a moderator account as a moderator, does it not? Age/karma/etc rules generally wouldn't be overriding the default to apply to mods, so this should not even be a problem if Automod is operating according to its own documentation.
Comment by MajorParadox at 16/08/2022 at 17:25 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Is the account considered a mod or an approved user? Many subreddits exclude approved users already. And it'd make sense for them to be approved automatically.
Comment by TheLateWalderFrey at 16/08/2022 at 17:32 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
would adding:
author: ~name: ['subreddit-ModTeam']
to such rules be a workaround at least until the account ages?
it should work with karma filters too.
Comment by FaviFake at 21/08/2022 at 12:25 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We have a rule that removes comments made by accounts with not enough karma if they contain a link.
Every removal reason we use has a link to modmail us and one to contact us, so all the removal reasons we send get silently removed by AutoModerator and we need to go to their profile and manually approve each comment.
How is the account supposed to surpass the karma limits if every comment it makes is made on a removed post?