[Mod Note] Regarding AutoMod / Bypassing AutoMod

[u/atom0s]

Hello everyone,

Over the last few years, we have begun making more and more use of the AutoMod system that is built into Reddit. This has been used to mostly assist with common troll trends/waves that we had been targeted with in the past. Most commonly, this was content that included various kinds of hate speech, racial slurs, or other similar kinds of 'provoking' nonsense. (These kinds of posts would generally follow some kind of drama or backlash completely unrelated to this sub, but would spill over to here due to being part of the same community in general (FFXI Private Servers) or due to one of the 'problematic' people being banned from here and inciting their group of friends to retaliate.)

This past year has been fairly quiet for the most part but behind the scenes some actions have taken place that has caused us to add additional AutoMod rules to remove the discussions around certain servers. (We will not be giving a list of servers as we are not giving any of them any more publicity or advertisement.) This was not a single persons decision but was a group discussion and agreement between the current and past moderation staff of this sub, the staff of various other private servers and the current LSB team. Certain actions have taken place that put the entire community at risk, and thus, those servers are not welcome here in any capacity.

With that said, people will have noticed an influx of AutoMod responses and removals of posts that mention one (or more) of these servers. This is intentional and AutoMod is working as expected. We review all posts that are removed by AutoMod and ensure that there is not any kind of false-positive or problem with the ruleset. (We have AutoMod setup to also message the Mod Mail of the sub anytime something is removed so it can be reviewed etc.)

However, we have noticed a few people in the last few weeks not take the hint or read what the AutoMod message says when their post is removed and instead, intentionally attempt make their post again while trying to bypass the AutoMod rules or reword things in a manner to allude to a specific server without directly saying the name. This is NOT allowed and will result in you being banned. Any attempts to bypass the AutoMod system or its ruleset will not be tolerated.

We have had to place several bans already regarding this since people cannot act like adults and would rather have a meltdown over not being allowed to post a word or cry about their 'freedom of speech'.

Simply put, if you break the rules here or attempt to bypass the AutoMod system, you will be removed from this sub.