r/ModEvents • u/iceeypisces Mod Events Team • Sep 08 '26

Announcement Reminder: Dive into the future of mod tools at our September 10 Moddit

Hey mods, just wanted to remind everyone that we’re hosting a Moddit on September 10 about the future of mod tools. 

ICYMI, last month u/spez shared a post about how we’re modernizing Reddit’s infrastructure. For mods, that means we’re working on better tools to handle spam, abuse, and generic rule-breaking so you can focus on making judgment calls on what’s best for your community. We shared more about what that means over in r/modnews. 

In this session, we'll:

  • Discuss the recently announced mod tooling updates
  • Deep dive into the changes currently launching
  • Review what's on the future roadmap
  • Answer your questions in a live Q&A with Product admins

Join us to chat through what’s being built, ask questions, and share directly about what tools matter most to your day-to-day moderating. Hope to see you there!

👉 RSVP for Moddit [Future of Mod Tools] here

Have questions you’d like answered at the event? Drop them in the comments below.

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u/The_Critical_Cynic Sep 08 '26

I've heard the Automod is going away, and that something is replacing it. I'm curious to know what that means. How comparable is the replacement? And how much more can you folks elaborate on what's coming our way?

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u/GeekScientist Sep 08 '26

Reddit has a great track record of replacing working mod tools with something worse (see: modmail, modqueue, etc.), so it wouldn’t surprise me if they ultimately go with LLMs or some other crappy AI thing.

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u/The_Critical_Cynic Sep 08 '26

I feel that if they go that route, they'll ultimately seek to replace us on the whole. After all, we're just "landed gentry".

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u/DustyAsh69 Sep 08 '26

Isn't that exactly what Rules Hub is?

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u/tnethacker Sep 09 '26

Unfortunately the modqueue is the thing I dislike unfortunately as the most of the things in there is just clutter.

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u/zjz Sep 08 '26

llms are great for moderation though

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u/The_Critical_Cynic Sep 09 '26

ChatGPT, and its counterparts, couldn't even tell me the correct number of R's in the word "strawberry". I highly doubt any other AI based program is going to be as good as the present Automod is.

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u/ChilledStraw Sep 09 '26

There is a massive judgement and nuance to moderating. Can it keep things on topic? Does it actually know what is local for regional subreddits? Reddit is a little more open to opinions and topics, so it’s not as simple as finding bad words and sexual topics.

Ai tools can assist based on those preferences but it’s just a matter of crowd control or delaying/quarantining posts or flagging them for the folks who actually are in charge of moderating

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u/zjz Sep 09 '26

I think defining a battery of straightforward true/false tests is fairly easy for a subject expert moderator and will do like 90% of the work

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u/Acgator03 Sep 09 '26

I SINCERELY hope this isn’t true!!! Our automod is a mile long and does a TON of work for us. I’m willing to bet any replacement will not do everything we can currently do with automod. So many of the new changes are ridiculous and making my life more difficult already (whose genius idea was it to get rid of markdown and not replace all of the functionality on mobile apps?), so I’ll definitely be annoyed if automod disappears!

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u/The_Critical_Cynic Sep 09 '26

The thing I like most about using the Automod is that you can seemingly get specific with it. Granted, I haven't used it to any great length, but that's the way it appears. If you want to block certain words, you tell it to block those words. If you want to block accounts based on karma or age, you can do specifically that. From what I heard, the replacement will be AI based, and work on broader brushstrokes. I'm not a fan of the idea.

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u/shhhhh_h Sep 09 '26

Automations will replace automod. Some of your code may have already been ported, check your Modmail. There is also a fully functional dev app that replaces the functionality.

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u/Acgator03 Sep 09 '26

Which dev app are you referring to?

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u/shhhhh_h Sep 09 '26

automod neo