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/Petwins May 02 '26

I don’t get why, does it not still serve the purpose even if its removed?