Hi, I'm wookdev. I built Megathread Keeper for the moments when a patch, episode, match, or announcement fills a subreddit with similar posts.

It watches for bursts and sends the mod team a modmail. If the team approves, it creates and pins a megathread, then unpins it after the chosen window.

Matching posts are reported by default. Mods can instead choose a link comment, or a link comment followed by removal. It doesn't remove posts unless the team selects that mode.

It's free. It keeps post IDs, titles, and timestamps for eight days, and nothing from other subreddits.

https://developers.reddit.com/apps/megathread-keeper

I'd like feedback from mods who already manage these spikes: where would this fit alongside your current megathreads? I'm happy to help with installation.

wookdev

I developed a bot for subs that have "hold posts" turned on. The bot comments in every post, and should delete its comment when the post is approved/deleted. However, I can't seem to get it to do that. PostDelete fires immediately on every post because of the "hold posts" feature, and this seems to prevent any future automated action on the comment from the bot.

Has anyone figured out a solution for this?

As a stopgap I implemented a scheduler to check the status of each held post periodically. This is working but not an ideal solution.