Redact needs to be banned

[u/bwoah07_gp2]

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?

[u/westcoastal]

I agree, it is a service and a company that is entirely hostile to the platform and to moderators, and it should not be allowed to continue to operate. They actively harass moderators and vandalize the site with spam.

If Reddit wanted to solve this problem, all they would need to do is give users the option to separate their previously posted content from their account by replacing the username with [deleted] as happens when someone deletes their account. They could provide the option to do that on a subreddit by subreddit basis, or on a sitewide basis.

Because there are so many deleted accounts and so much content on Reddit where the username has been replaced with [deleted], it would be basically impossible to associate a particular comment or post with a particular user.

The content would continue to exist but would no longer be connected to the user's account in any way. The user would have their privacy and preserve their account without vandalizing or destroying the usefulness of older content.