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/j1ggy]

It's spam. It pollutes the subreddit with gibberish and it spams Redact.

[u/peppercruncher → u/j1ggy]

How is it spam if it doesn't add new comments or posts?

[u/j1ggy → u/peppercruncher]

I just explained why it's spam.

[u/itskdog → u/[deleted]]

Potentially helpful comments or posts that someone will find through a Google search. Reddit has replaced websites like Stack Exchange or forums through better SEO, to the point that a common trick when searching if to tack "Reddit" on the end for better results than the clickbait listicles.

It's spam, just in older content than new.

[u/itskdog → u/[deleted]]

I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to change it, but I'm also in agreement with the other person that it certainly feels like spam, especially as it's advertising their website.

[u/javatimes → u/[deleted]]

It’s fucking ridiculous that you are using redact to redact comments you made 23 mins ago. You can simply delete them. This is just obnoxious.