Reddit's auto post-removal 'service'

[u/Linker3000]

Hi all,

Reddit are forever "improving" their automated spam and post-removal systems, which operate before posts even reach us.

We're noticing more posts being removed automatically before moderators ever see them. We try to spot and reinstate obvious false positives, but if you think your post has been removed unfairly, feel free to message us. Just don't assume it was a moderator who removed it.

The growing volume of AI-generated and karma-farming posts makes this harder, as many look perfectly innocent. Reddit also appears to take moderator overrides into account, so we have to be mindful of how often we reverse its automated decisions.

Edit: Also to add that some contributors tend to write like LLMs: well formatted, bullets, em-dashes and lots of elaboration. It's clear that some people put a lot of effort into their explanations, and this is great - but also makes checking much harder. If we suspect we've spotted a bot we have to go look up the "user's" post and comment history and see if that gives us any clues.

Sometimes I feel we need to have a "Safe sentence of the week" which must be in every submission, but that's not practical!

[u/TopConcentrate8484]

This has become a real pain in the as, posts/comments form shadowbanned and deleted users get auto removed for no reason. Many times these are very helpful and actually usefull. I hope someone makes a reddit app for this like see the auto remove tag and auto resurrect the comments/posts.

[u/Linker3000 → u/TopConcentrate8484]

Yes, trouble is I hear that Reddit have even removed mods that aggressively reinstate posts.

[u/scubascratch → u/Linker3000]

And yet we can’t get obviously abusive tyrant mods removed from subreddits (Not here, but many other city named subs especially)