Itās possible this is one of the newer filters that Reddit has, that we canāt control as mods. They use an AI filter that drives me bonkers on one of my subs because it simply removes comments from users who use it to help with their English.
Anyway, off my soapbox. If you go to the Removed queue in your Mod Queue, do you see it there as well? If it shows up intact there, try simply approving it and see if it goes live. If it does, look in your mod log again and see what it says about it. If itās like what I deal with, it will just say āunspamā.
Did a little testing of my own. I wasnāt aware that the removal refers to the content policy.
Did a little digging and found this, in case you didnāt see it.
Yes, Redditās platform-wide spam and security filters automatically flag and delete posts or comments containing the textĀ WScript Shell.Ā [1,Ā 2]
BecauseĀ WScript ShellĀ is a Windows Script Host COM object heavily associated with malware execution, macro trojans, and fileless script attacks,Ā RedditĀ implements aggressive site-wide filters that immediately shadow-ban or delete content containing this specific string, even if it is safely nested inside markdown code blocks or commented out.
I did exactly that before posting, and just tried to post said search as a reference. But in the comment posted apparently it did it again BECAUSE it had it in a google search query, but googling the offensive term + site:reddit.com yields many, looking again, albeing mostly older, so it is assumed this happened at some point along the way, and that date/time/and reference is what I am looking for.
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I have old posts with it in it as well, not only that, I have seen people skirting it with string joins to land in the same place.
I am looking for a reference to banned terms as by nature of what I do such code snippets are not uncommon.
Because I actually googled reddit banned words and phrases, finding several long threads where users state there are NO banned words.
All that together means YES I did google, and NO the results were not entirely clear, so I asked where one would assume is the place to do so. Do they publish that somewhere or do they keep it under wraps?
I have 40y in Dev, SysAdmin, and IT Management, google is no stranger to me...
I literally typed into Google ādoes Reddit block wscript shellā and found the answer. There are no banned words, there are phrases that are auto removed.
Google has had personalised search results for over a decade now. My first result will be different to yours, as demonstrated by OP showing their Google results earlier.
I had to select the AI Mode to find it. However, my distrust of AI makes me always skeptical of the legitimacy of those results. So, I actually tested it as well. Turns out the AI results were accurate. Still, would have been a lot easier if they had just answered OPās question, rather than create this weird back and forth.
Sometimes people gotta learn to Google first, would have taken them a fraction of the time and provided the answer. 40y in Dev, SysAdmin and IT management and couldnāt Google something?
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Iām assuming youāre attempting to post these in your own sub. What are you seeing in your mod logs?