Ah, the bane of Reddit arrives
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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Can you elaborate? Is that supposed to ber a good thing or a bad one?
I never had a problem with its behind the scenes actions, but the AutoMod sticky comment at the top with the entirely of War and Peace was always annoying.
I can see how that would be annoying. Luckily enough I forgot that was a feature back on Reddit, so my bot isn't able to do that :)
Apollo had an option to auto collapse it. Maybe Voyager should take that feature on too.
Like anything, it's how it's implemented.
New users can find posting rules complicated, and getting constant automod rejections along with shadowbanning new users makes the whole thing tiresome.
constant automod rejections along with shadowbanning new users
Fuck that. I had that suggested as a feature and downright refused to implement it. It will never be a thing in my bot. This is entirely about reviewing content, not people.
There's no way to discriminate one based on their account age, instance, what communities they follow or other bullshit systems such as Reddit's karma.
Although account-based filtering can be useful for managing obvious spam (e.g., a brand new account posting links).
That is true, but it's a slippery slope I would rather not walk anywhere near. In my humble opinion, account based AutoMod restrictions were the first small steps for the enshittification of Reddit and I wouldn't want to be responsible for such a thing happening to Lemmy.
Cool. :)
Unlike reddit. Moderator don't have absolute power on here. Alternative communities does exist and if you manage to get banned on multiple ones then maybe it's not the moderators that are the problem.
The new user onboarding experience at Reddit is fucking awful. Every sub has an automod, most shadowban new users or have such elaborate posting rules it can make posting not worth the effort
True but your comparing small communities of enthusiasts vs big corpo. Again , alternative communities with different rules still exists.
Nice! Your based rating has definitely increased
Is there a good way of notifying the user about what happened when their post/comment was blocked/banned?
I've had times on other services where my comment keeps disappearing and I think; okay is it my VPN? is it a bug? Is it my account? Is it that all URL's are banned? Is it a keyword? It's extremely infuriating to try and guess-and-check when no explanation is given. So I'm hoping there's some kind of feature for that.
I got the same question from another user under my lemmy.ml crosspost, I guess this is a hot feature. Yes there is a way to do that.
When setting a removal rule for a post or a comment, mods can fill an optional message field. After having removed the content (according to the rule), the bot will reply to the user with whatever has been written in said field.
So say your comment got removed because you said a banned word, the AutoMod would reply to your removed comment with a message saying: "Your post has been removed because [...]", depending on what the mods have configured. To clear any doubt, they can also specify a removal reason for the modlog.