I heard about it from my mom. She said Dad looked "strangely happy" when she mentioned it.

My dad and I have not spoken in 5 years. Here's the thing, I became a lawyer because I wanted to be like him, but then I applied to his firm after law school and the HR system rejected my resume within 24h. He told me tough luck. He owns the firm...

He sends birthday cards. I don't open them.

Now some coworker calls him "dad" by accident, and it meant something to him?!? I just can't.

Part of me wants to be mad, but I've lost all respect for the man after he made fun of my practice area (I specialize in litigation between LLMs models; I pioneered the field).

Still, it pisses me off. I'm his only son. If he wants to feel like a dad, maybe he should try calling me instead of hoping some random person at work calls him Daddy or something.

Hi all,

Quick note about the issue with posts not appearing in the sub after being posted (in this subreddit and other communities).

These are false positives caught by the Anti-bot/Anti-spam bots.

After investigating these cases for a bit, I've found a pattern and a likely explanation (at least for our sub):

I'm now very confident that the issue is with using the wrong post flairs (flairs applied to submissions, not users). Specifically it seems it has something to do with how closely the content of a post matches what's expected based on the post flair that's picked for it. In other words if a user selects a post flair that has little to do with the topic of their post, it seems the bots treat that as a sign that its a spam post and remove it.

It's well known that the use of random flairs is a hallmark of bot posts trying to evade detection. So what I think is happening is that the devs tweaked the bots to start including some kind of analysis of post flair in the anti-spam, anti-AI bot calculus.

In summary, if you are having these issues, its likely because you are not using the right flair. So the solution is simple: follow rule no 5 and use the right flairs for your posts.

Howdey Hey Party People,

So let's talk AI and Bots.

Over the last few months Reddit has seen an absolute explosion of AI-juiced bots and spam posts. In this subreddit alone where once I had a handful of these posts to scoop up every month in the kitty litter, we're now getting a steady, and daily, stream that even the best mod diapers can't contain.

It's like this in all the subreddits I mod and word around the mod circle, is that the jerks behind this have us all frantically shoveling for our lives right now.

Using the standard tools made available to moderators (and a few secret ones 🤫) , I'd done my best over the years to contain the flow, but as you've probably noticed by now, like Star Trek's Borg, or Stargate's Replicators, they've adapted and are finding ways to break through. And there's so much one can do with a Bath-let or a P90...

I'm not built for this kind of fight. I have soft hands that write stupid shit on a keyboard for a living.

Drastic measures had to be taken.

So a few months ago I begun reading quantum physic for dummies.

Fast forward 20 years from now, and it seems my future self cracked the space time continuum paradox. I know this because using a van-hosted time machine powered by a cat with a buttered toast attached to its back spinning at 88mph, future-me was able to send back in time bots programmed to help me fight present day shitbots (and if time permits collect the infinity stones so that we can snap the source of all our problems: anthropomorphic M&M ads).

However since I've watched Terminator 2: Judgment Day, future me was smart enough to send more than one naked robot to help out.

As such, I'm happy to announce that 5 bots have now joined the mod team:

Please don't follow that youtube link, nothing good will come out of it.

bot-bouncer, evasion-guard, stop-bots and stop-ai will join forces to form an AI/BOT-fighting Voltron and guard us against the Decepticons' return.

Flairassistant will be cheering on from the sideline and providing them with quirky one-liners in binary to cheer them up.

Will Flairassistant, through its own personal training montage become a contributing member of this team, who knows? Will evasion-guard and stop-bots finally confess to each other their robot feelings and get together? Will stop-ai manage to finally impress its older sibling bot-bouncer? Stay tuned for the next episode of DragonBall Z to find out!

In the meantime, who watches the watchers? Good question!

To avoid a situation like Sgt. Todd 3465 in Soldier, I've kept on Automoderator and have placed them in charge of its bot brethren. Think of it like the White/Green Power Ranger, but less smart, yet somehow cooler.

What does this all mean?

Hopefully only human shitposting in our subreddit. I've tested these guys out in other subreddits I mod, and their Kung Fu is strong. They can move as fast as the programs and don't even need to dodge bullets anymore. They are just that good.

What do you need from us Modguy?

I need ideas for cool flairs for our protectors. As I mentioned already they came here naked. We need to dress them up with cool flairs.

Anything else?

Since there are legitimate reasons to discuss AI in our community, in a few days from now I'll be reorganizing this Republic into the first Galactic Empire. My first order of business will be to create a monthly mega-thread dedicated to AI and the law.

If you are a lawyer doing AI voodoo (Claude sorcery, starting up your own AI-based legal tool, or just want to share advice from the perspective of an experienced AI user), this will be your safe space to share your stuff. It will be up to the community to play or not in your sandbox.

How can I claim Professional Development credits for this post?

You can't, this post is not real, it was suggested to you in a dream about a dream you made wthin a dream. This was all your idea, I swear.

Ok, that's it. Sorry for any brain damage reading this.

This concerns the r/Lawyertalk subreddit.

Six months ago, my colleague posted here about this, and the top mod responded in that thread by promising to grant the permissions needed to run the subreddit properly. He further explained his absence by saying he now uses an alt account, reducing his visibility on the sub. He never followed through on those permissions.

Since then, we've hit 100k subscribers as our community has steadily grown over the last few years. However, bot and AI spam has exploded (over the last two months in particular), and is becoming increasingly sophisticated and hard to identify. The issue is that our current permissions handcuff our ability to fight this. I reached out to the mod team a while ago about getting permissions to implement tools from the Reddit Dev program, but received no response from either mod.

To be transparent, and admins are welcome to audit our mod logs to confirm, while I keep saying "we," it feels like I'm moderating alone. My other mod colleague hasn't responded to PMs in over a month and is now marked as inactive on our sub, despite still being active on Reddit.

The saving grace is our community. They diligently report rule-breakers and avoid engaging with obvious spam, which helps discourage spammers. But the volume is becoming unmanageable and is poisoning my enjoyment of Reddit; I feel guilty every moment I spend here that isn't spent moderating.

I'm not sure what approach I should take at this point. I would not want the top mod to be removed; he founded the sub, and I'm not sure it's my place to ask for the top mod spot; the other mod does show up from time to time, and he's no problem to work with, so I'm not sure exactly how to approach this situation or what I should be asking here. I do however feel a sense of urgency given the circumstances.

Thank you for any advice and suggestions.

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Hi all,

I'm looking for assistance with community engagement and queue clean up so would like to on-board one or two moderators.

I'm not looking for someone to take over the sub or reinvent things if those would be your ambition (although if you want to improve the subreddit wiki content or the monthly posts, be my guest).

If after reviewing our moderation guidelines and rules, you are interested in helping out, please let me know.

If you have previous moderation experience, that's great, but not strictly necessary if you understand Reddit well and have been on the site for a while. I'm not looking to mentor baby mods at this time, so if you have no clue what a mod queue is, this might not be for you.

The Anti-AI/Spam bots handle most of the big ticket items so this should be a fairly light load.

- IB