u/Sephardson

Recently, I noticed the full documentation link for automoderator in the sidebar on r/automoderator asks for my birthday. I'm in the UK and not age verified. (In app it instead says r/reddit.com is archived).

So, I tried other links in the r/automoderator wiki index, and the same happens for the introduction, writing basic rules, and the full documentation links there. https://www.reddit.com/mod/AutoModerator/wiki/index

These pages are the only ones not hosted on r/automoderator but on r/reddit.com.

It seems r/reddit.com has now been marked NSFW?

We asked via modsupport mod mail if there is anything that can be done so UK mods don't have to verify their age or use VPNs just to see automod documentation.

Or

If r/reddit.com cannot be reclassified, could the automod documentation pages there be hosted on and redirected to r/automoderator instead.

We also noted that there may be other pages on r/reddit.com that are worth saving as well, like the old reddiquette and moddiquette, moderator guidelines pages, and spam and self promotion pages, too. Mods tend to refer to these, even if just for historical purposes.

I was told that to comply with the online safety act, Reddit requires age confirmation to access restricted content :|

This won't just affect UK mods, but mods anywhere with these new online safety laws.

Automod documentation isn't unsafe and mods shouldn't need to verify to see it, to help keep their communities safe.

r/automoderator has back-up pages here that can serve as an immediate work around for affected mods https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/wiki/backup

Hopefully a long term fix can be found.

I Dj as a side passion, and am always on the lookout for good Zelda remixes – Koji Kondo is hands down my favorite composer of all time. There are some really great ones, but they rarely keep the original music in tact. Many don't use the original samples, and include drops or dance breaks that have nothing to do with Zelda. I've been searching for remixes that feel like listening to the original N64 bangers, just... more dancy!

So I took a crack at making one myself! Link to Soundcloud above, would love any feedback!

Also, I literally made a new Soundcloud account bc I'd like to start making more stuff like this, but apologies if my account screams of being a bot. I'm just new here! And if you enjoy this and have any requests for other tracks, please do let me know :)

What does it do?

Why does it exist?

What do you like about enforcing it?

Your mod team likely recently (today) got a modmail notification from admins about the new feature rolling out for Videos in Comments.

Many moderators may be wondering how to report or filter comments which contain uploaded videos, in cases where your team wants to consider monitoring them closer or with greater scrutiny, or restrict their use to appropriate posts or trusted authors.

Fortunately, this is possible with AutoModerator. Unfortunately, the OP of the post on r/modnews was unaware at the original time of the announcement, and their comment about it was downvoted out of visibility before later editing in the example code.

Conveniently, this relies on the same kind of RegEx check that is already documented for both video embeds in text posts (July 2022) and for other media in comments (Oct 2022).

Here's the RegEx check:

body (includes, regex): '!\[video\]\([^)]*\)'

What this check is looking for is a string of the form:

• 

This is similar to the other media in text posts and comments, which simply use [img] and [gif] in place of [video]. In fact, if you wanted to expand your current AutoModerator rules that apply to gif or images in comments to also apply to videos in comments, then you would want to use a RegEx like this:

body (includes, regex): '!\[(video|img|gif)\]\([^)]*\)'

Here are a few example rules:

---
# Report videos in comments
type: comment
body (includes, regex): '!\[video\]\([^)]*\)'
action: report
action_reason: "Video in comment detected, please review."
---
# Filter videos in comments if they get 2 reports
type: comment
body (includes, regex): '!\[video\]\([^)]*\)'
reports: 2
action: filter
action_reason: "Video in comment detected, reported twice, filtered for review."
---
# Restrict video replies on posts flaired "Serious"
type: comment
body (includes, regex): '!\[video\]\([^)]*\)'
parent_submission:
    flair_text: "Serious"
action: remove
set_locked: true
action_reason: "Video in comment detected on post flaired Serious."
message: "Hey there! We appreciate your participation, but we do not allow video replies on posts with the Serious flair here. Please resubmit your comment as text only."
---
# Restrict video replies on AMAs to approved users only
type: comment
body (includes, regex): '!\[video\]\([^)]*\)'
parent_submission:
    flair_text: "AMA"
author:
    is_contributor: false
action: remove
set_locked: true
action_reason: "Video in comment detected on AMA post by unapproved user."
message: "Hey there! We appreciate your participation, but we restrict video replies on AMA posts. Please resubmit your comment as text only or reach out to the moderators if you feel this was in error."
---

Let me know if you have other questions or suggestions!

This is a question for moderators that frequently moderate from the official mobile apps.

When I say "favorite mod tool", I mean one that you either try to use frequently, or would actually use frequently if it worked, or one that you simply would like to use. Interpret that openly.

When I say "broken", i mean a mod tool that is either incomplete, buggy, missing, or requires extra steps to effectively use.

Here's some examples from when I was checking queues over coffee this morning (iOS, fwiw):

• You cannot remove or reorder highlighted posts from the highlights menu. The buttons show but are greyed out / not responsive.

• Tapping a filtered comment in queue loads the parent post but does not show the filtered comment. This one's funny because it changes when you try a second time on the same comment.

• Posts by site-wide suspended or shadowbanned accounts will show their username in the subreddit feed, but not when you open the post. Mod notes for these accounts are accessible on desktop but not on mobile.

• You can open a post from modqueue before you remove it. But you can't right after you remove it while still shown in the queue. So you have to reapprove it or navigate to it a different way if you want to look again at the comment section or review it in greater depth.

So many little things like this make moderating on mobile so painful, but after long enough, you just kinda grow blind to it or work around it or put it off until you can get to desktop. Some of this is so engrained in my muscle memory that i didn't consciously realize how regularly i encounter them until i did an exercise in active narration.

One of the frequently asked questions here and in other moderator subreddits is about how to set up AutoModerator for the first time. This can be tricky mostly for two reasons:

• If you are unfamiliar with AutoModerator, then you may not know where to look. Some of the documentation is version-specific for reddit as well.

• The first time AutoModerator is configured can have a couple slightly different steps from future edits.

So this wiki page lists the basic steps and a few pointers for the first-time (or first-timer) to help get from confusion to the configuration editor.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/wiki/setup

I'll be adding this link to an auto-reply for some keywords when people post here. Let me know if there are other points or tips you think should be added to this page or other pages!