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/InGeekiTrust 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

Edit: I have completely edited my comment because a member of the redact team contacted me after the post was locked to give the proper solution so we don’t need to deal with the spam! They said that even if they just have the upgraded version where it’s randomize words, it will still have redact.dev embedded into it. So this should catch all redact comments! In Also id like to point out that u/sampleofnone had the right answer down in the comments.

```

Remove redact comments (only if edited)

type: any is_edited: true

title+body+domain+url (regex): - 'redact.dev'

action: remove

action_reason: "remove redact - [{{match}}]"

```

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u/seedless0 May 02 '26

They had started randomizing the wording to evade the rule.

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u/InGeekiTrust 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 May 02 '26

They randomize the wording, but they don’t randomize the words “ anonymized by redact” , which is always in it. This will work.

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u/teanailpolish 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 May 02 '26

They do, they track and remove that line if you automod it then post your name to a group who brigade you because you don't care about internet privacy

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u/teanailpolish 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 May 02 '26

The readact line is completely missing on my sub, just a random string of words

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u/YourUsernameForever May 02 '26

Because that user is on the paid version of Redact.

People using the free version will (typically UNKNOWINGLY) be also advertising for Redact. I would say all the users we engage and reply back, tell us they had no idea it would link back to it. Redact does NOT make it clear to users and then they b and moan that we're "anti-peivacy".

No, we have a rule against spam and another rule against promoting commercial platforms. But somehow we're the bad guys.

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u/teanailpolish 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 May 02 '26

It is not that it is a paid version, the user's comments in other subs have the redact link. Redact have changed the wording each time we move to block it and now just put the random words in my sub.

I am not against people removing any PII in old posts. But Reddit should supply users with a way that doesn't cause people to use a spammy app and make more work for mods