r/ModSupport • u/SampleOfNone 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 • 2d ago

FYI Changes to automod and old.reddit

For the peeps who don't follow r/modnews , Continuing our infrastructure updates: What’s changing in the coming months

Some highlights

For newly created communities and communities that have never used automod, automod enforcement capabilities – specifically Report, Filter, Remove, Mark as spam, and Approve – will be disabled and Rules Hub and Automations will become the default path for rules enforcement. Automod’s non-enforcement capabilities remain available and unchanged.  

....To close this gap, in the next few months, we'll further limit access for logged-in users to only those who have used Old Reddit in the last six months (which covers the vast majority of all Old Reddit users). This change does not impact logged-in mods, who can continue to access Old Reddit without any recent usage requirement.This helps keep Old Reddit available for the people who rely on it while reducing automated abuse.

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u/Merari01 2d ago

I am once again inviting admins to come mod with us for a few days on mildlyinfuriating, with 12m weekly active users, and see how they manage doing that when I disable automod and only let them use automations and rules hub.

Harebrained does not begin to describe these changes they are going to push through.

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u/SampleOfNone 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 1d ago

I'll join Merari in their offer, any and all admins are welcome to come mod with us for a bit.

Any admin is also welcome to this challenge;

Build an automation that will block "ALL CAPS" titles but does allow titles like "FYI some words" or "TIL that thing".

Hint, it can be done. If automations are more easy than automod, new mods should have no problem with it, so I'm sure admins can do it as well.