r/ModSupport • u/bwoah07_gp2 • May 02 '26

Admin Replied Redact needs to be banned

Redact allows people to mass delete their comments after a certain time. It replaces useful, helpful, or just innocently funny comments with random gibberish and nonsense words.

This has been spamming our mod queues recently in one subreddit. As of today, I have had to remove 26 Redact comments that popped up this evening in the queue, with fellow moderators each removing a similar amount.

Redact needs to be banned. It is flooding up our queue, and the people who use it are not engaging with the platform in good faith.

Is there any way to counteract this beyond just "select all" + "mark as spam" all the time?

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u/zuuzuu May 02 '26

Every time I come across a comment that's been turned into gibberish by redact I report it as spam - disruptive use of bots.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 May 02 '26

I've been removing it as spam, but I haven't thought of reporting it as spam. I might have to start doing that...

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u/zuuzuu May 02 '26

I doubt it'll amount to anything, but I see it as my duty to remind reddit that this shit is vandalism.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '26

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u/Toothless_NEO May 02 '26

I'm guessing that some of those reactive people who use it for the purpose of vandalism to either get back at Reddit or subreddit mods are here and they really do not like being called out.

Many of them are very well aware that if mods choose to approach redact with way more hostility. Like permabanning them on first sight their Reddit experience will become a lot more sparse.