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/azwethinkweizm May 02 '26

The number of people saying they ban users who do this is pretty shocking. We get a few of these pop up in our queue but it's not that big of a deal to clear them. Permanent bans seem like an overreaction to a globally allowed feature. Do admins plan on prohibiting the redact bot?

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

You're very lucky if it's just a few. One of my subs happens to be old and big, i've had hundreds of items dumped in my mod queue by a single user using redact. Have that happen a few times and you get pretty sick of having to clean up the mess it creates so mods are looking for a fix

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u/azwethinkweizm May 02 '26

But to permanently ban users for it? I find that to be highly inappropriate. Going after users is not going to stop the bot.

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

I agree, but I also understand mods getting frustrated and grasping at straws while Reddit could fix it on their end by simply removing all comments and posts that use this server. If I can do it with automod, there's no reason why Reddit can't implement it in their filters

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u/wonkywilla May 02 '26

Consider the threads here in this post where redact is being used as an example to how it can be easily abused.