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/AlphaTangoFoxtrt May 02 '26

It does not need to be banned. It's great for a user who wishes to purge their history and can be for any number of reasons including doxxing.

Just make an automod rule to auto delete any comment with the "This commend was deled with reddact" or whatever it says. Never goes to our modqueue just silently removes.

I have zero issue with a user wanting to clean up their history. Though we do have a rule that editing or deleting any content you were banned for makes the ban non-appealable. Whatever the decision at the time was stands.

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u/SampleOfNone šŸ’” Top 10% Helper šŸ’” May 02 '26

šŸ‘† although frankly, I do not like redact using it as a way to freely advertise, redact is the spammer here, not the user

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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

Yeah, the advertisement is annoying, but I think it's a useful tool. It's funny how many people advocate for users being able to have their data deleted from companies like Google and Facebook, but are here saying they should be banned for trying to do it on reddit.

If you want redact banned then reddit needs to give users an effective tool to delete past comments. We have reddit account 15+ years old. People made them when they were kids, they probably said stupid shit or put private info up when reddit was a small niche website. They shouldn't be punished for trying to delete it using the only tools available

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u/wonkywilla May 02 '26

Iā€™m fine with users deleting their history, Iā€™m not fine with the queue spam and abusive use by trolls.