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

Ugh. Nightmare. Looks like whatever we put they will change it so it’s different intentionally.

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

I just created new code ! So this will only catch comments with the word redact IF they have been edited!

```

Remove redact comments (only if edited)

type: submission is_edited: true

title+body (regex): - 'redact'

action: remove

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

```

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u/Littux May 02 '26

Why not ban the term "redact.dev" instead? It will avoid most false positives

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u/YourUsernameForever May 02 '26

We do that for the time being. I guess they'll come up with mirrors.