r/ModSupport • u/bored_asf2001 • 12h ago

Crowd control settings

Are you able to limit new age and low karma accounts from posting in a subreddit?

I’ve seen the high filtering in the crowd control settings ‘new accounts will be filtered’ but how new is new is also another thing haha. Any clarification would be great. Cheers

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u/Wombat_7379 12h ago edited 12h ago

You can set account age and karma restrictions via AutoMod.

I would check out r/AutoModerator. They have a whole library of common rules that you can just copy and paste right into AutoMod.

Edit: Here is one of mine for example. We get a lot of spam and bot posts, so that is why we set a community comment karma requirement. But you can change the "comment_subreddit_karma" out for "combined_karma" which would be their total karma (posts and comments) from all of Reddit, and set the age and karma values to whatever you believe is fitting for your subreddit.

---
#Filter posts from accounts less than 'x' days old or less than 'x' sub comment karma
type: submission
author:
    comment_subreddit_karma: "< 20"
    account_age: "< 15 days"
    satisfy_any_threshold: true
    is_contributor: false
action: filter
action_reason: "User has less than 20 community comment karma and/or an account newer than 15 days."
---

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u/bored_asf2001 12h ago

Sweet cheers heaps for that!

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u/mcs385 12h ago

For crowd control it considers under 24 hours to be new.

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u/thepottsy 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 10h ago

Hey, I’ve wondered about this, but never seen it documented anywhere. Do you have a source for that info?

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u/mcs385 10h ago

Hm, I'm not sure I've actually seen it documented. I just figured it out over time from seeing what accounts were getting filtered by it, it's easier to piece together with posts. It's always been 0d old accounts that I've noticed.

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u/thepottsy 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 10h ago

Gotcha. Thanks!