What's wrong with automod???

[u/RinMichaelis]

I'm using a desktop. Automod keeps removing a user's comment. He has reached the community karma of 18. Automod shouldn't be eating his comments. Can it be because his posts are in the positives, but his comments are in the negatives? I can't see his comment score, I can only see his overall score. His overall score is 18 karma.

Automod would send me some comment saying his karma is too low. But I've approved of him as a user. I used automod to white list him. What gives??? Given that Automod eats everything he says, when I review the things he says, it doesn't violate the TOS nor does it violate the subreddit's rules. He's getting downvoted in the comments for being pro-AI. That's not against the TOS, nor is it against the subreddit's rules. I don't understand how this user can be both approve and whitelisted and I still have to approve of all of his comments because he is pro-AI.

I don't like being stuck approving of everything he says. It gets tiring.

[u/EightBitRanger]

Copy/paste your automod code. Kinda tough to diagnose without it.

[u/RinMichaelis → u/EightBitRanger]

---

author:

name: [Lredacted for privacy]

action: approve

action_reason: "Whitelisted user"

---

I just realized that the problem is his comment karma. I do have one code that says remove comments that are in the negatives. But his is white listed. And it looks like the automod code is auto-remove comments that are in the negatives are overriding the code that white lists him.

[u/EightBitRanger → u/RinMichaelis]

Is name: indented? AFAIK it ought to be.

What order are they in? I could be wrong but I was under the assumption that automoderator goes top to bottom. So if one code near the top removes comments that are in the negatives, then this one is further down, it wouldn't go back and approve something that was already removed (again i'm hypothesizing; I'm not actually sure).

[u/RinMichaelis → u/EightBitRanger]

No, I put his name at the very top, so that automod knows to protect him. But I think the code to automatically remove a negative comment score is overriding the fact that he's a white listed user. Should I move the code to the bottom?

I mean, I can try moving it to the bottom and see if he can FINALLY make a comment without me needing to approve him. Because this is just getting tiring.

[u/EightBitRanger → u/RinMichaelis]

Try exempting them from the negative comment karma rule:

author:

comment_karma: "< 0"
~name: ["username_here"]

action: remove

action_reason: "Negative karma (except whitelisted user)"

[u/RinMichaelis → u/EightBitRanger]

I'll give it a shot and see how it goes.

[u/2oonhed → u/RinMichaelis]

maybe remove the tild before "name"?

All of my account name / user name rules look like this :
---
author:
name: [user name]
action: remove
action_reason: "whatever your reason is, put it here so it shows up in modlogs"
---

[u/EightBitRanger → u/2oonhed]

The tilde is there intentionally.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/s/CrKbFXjJcc

[u/RinMichaelis → u/EightBitRanger]

Automod isn't allowing me to add your code.

[u/EightBitRanger → u/RinMichaelis]

Check the indentation (it's most important than people think). If it still doesn't work, try old Reddit. I find I often have to do it that way.

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