automod filters made reddit an absolute nightmare. pouring my heart out on the depression sub and getting it removed because it didn’t have 300 characters or it was image post saturday or god knows what. you basically just don’t get to post on any sizable sub — before it was at least a lottery! post, see if people will like it! but now you can’t even get a post through!

there are 50 automod filters on everything, forbidden words or topics, perfectly good questions cast away to megathreads no one reads!

it’s a dire, awful landscape, and really terrible user experience, having something on your chest and wanting to post, but oh hey this won’t be posted until our ‘mod team’ ‘reviews’ it. isn’t that what voting is for? please stop treating me like a spambot or troll by default!

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
    4711·
    1 year ago

    man am i the only one who had no problems with automod? either y’all needed to visit better subs or the problem wasn’t on the reddit side…

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Yea bad rules for automod (ex. Each day of the week only a particular type of post is allowed) aren’t really a good justification for not having automod at all.

      As Lemmy grows, we’re either going to need automod or the feeds are going to be filled with spam. Even if you add an unreasonable number of mods to every community (which comes with its own issues), you’re relying on users reporting the problem and some mod seeing it.

      It’s fine for now because there’s just not that many people, and so there’s not as much incentive to come in posting ads/spam/malicious/horrifying content.

      I did moderate on Reddit and while we had discussions about which rules were useful or bad for discussion, we didn’t consider turning it off completely because of how much bad stuff it took care of.

    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world
      111·
      1 year ago

      Well, they shadowban you for just mentioning certain things. Like lemmy… so I had that happen a few times. The automated mode tools have gotten progressively more aggressive and oppressive over the years.

    • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
      83·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. Karma requirements pretty much just force you to make a few comments without being an asshole to anyone before you can post. This seems like a fairly low bar to me, at least for anyone who’s not an asshole.

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        It does get ridiculous when subs have 2k karma requirements or like 2 year old account requirements.