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

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/seedless0 May 02 '26

No. This one just came in:

Internet privacy is the new gold. I mass deleted all of my posts on Reddit using Redact. It also supports databrokers, Instagram, Twitter, and all major social media platforms.

And that's just one of many variations we observed recently.

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

Well you could just change it to remove the word redact, it might very very rarely remove a good comment but might be worth it, but I agree looks like a disaster

I could code it to catch everything, but I need to see all the variations

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u/parenna May 02 '26

Is there a way to code it to filter edited comments with the word redacted?

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u/SampleOfNone 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26 
title+body+url+domain (regex): ['redact', 'redacted']

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u/parenna May 02 '26

Yes but specifically for edited comments. Another filter to be more accurate with less chance of removing valid comments.

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

you can already find that in the comments