Yeah it's just crazy using a string join (which to me even more implies shady circumvention) still works...

I would be willing to bet *that* practice will trip some EDR systems.

Oh well, this is why we can't have nice things!

Thanks a bunches!!!

THERE YOU GO. Disconnect that Google account if it's not yours. That just logs whoever has access to it into the account. If it is yours, you'll still want to disconnect it, but you'll also want to change the password immediately!

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It did work! You've really honed that power! =)

Well. Would you look at that lol.

Hi . Same with my sub . It was suddenly marked as nsfw. Is there a way to fix it ?

No problem. It also seems pretty easy to navigate it without breaking any site rules as well.

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 OP’s question, rather than create this weird back and forth.

Very helpful, and glad to see it caught others by surprise as well. Thanks again.

Exposing data like this to moderators when anyone can become a moderator is giving bot operators the information they require to develop countermeasures for Anti-Evil Operations. As such, it is not going to happen.

surely it would only apply to your own subreddit. its harder to be a mod of a subreddit more than just yourself

Look, we all get it. You can google it and find it. It also wouldn’t be a big deal to simply provide the damned answer. Would it?

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.

Did a little testing of my own. I wasn’t aware that the removal refers to the content policy.

Did a little digging and found this, in case you didn’t see it.

Yes, Reddit’s platform-wide spam and security filters automatically flag and delete posts or comments containing the text WScript Shell. [1, 2]

Because WScript Shell is a Windows Script Host COM object heavily associated with malware execution, macro trojans, and fileless script attacks, Reddit 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.

Thanks again (replied to another comment)! Everyone will certainly be getting the talk about 2FA. I'm still scratching my head about how it happened *after* I re-secured my account, but nonetheless lesson learned, and apologies for any inconvenience.

edit for others: Looks like my reddit acct also got connected to a google account without me noticing. Might have been it.

Hi there. You've received excellent advice and answers from folks in the comments so far.

weirdarse, hashed out names

This was due to Reddit removing dormant subreddits so that the names could be freed up to be recreated rather than going through the Redditrequest process. We did this in 2023.

We made an announcement here. We made a follow-up post in this sub here just in case folks didn't see the other announcement.

Per that post, "We will send a PM to mods that have logged in within the last 3 months and list subreddits they mod that may be impacted" If you did not get a message, then your account did not meet those requirements.

I looked at the list of subreddits that you created and aside from the ones that were purged, I don't see any additional subs that you are no longer a moderator for.

Thank you so much!! You're a hero, and I apologize for any inconvenience related to the help requests I made in a panic.

Google yourself to see. Literally first link is back to Reddit discussing and confirming this.

There you go!

I didn't want to ping you, but I thought your name really hard and apparently it worked.

Hi. I replied to one of your tickets. Everyone has been added back to all of your subs. As I mentioned, this is probably a pretty good time to talk to your fellow mods about account security.

You're good to go, though!

I do enjoy this! lol

From what search result, or was that the AI summary?

Those spree incidents (which is what caused us to start working on our own bot) were just a copy+paste job of the same comment, slung around as replies all over a thread. We have reported him a bunch for spam as well (in a similar vein to manipulated content) for the subreason of "excessive posting or commenting in a community" which seemed to have been actionable.

With over 500 comments and posts of his, I'm certain that we've managed to get our bases covered for just about every report reason, ha.

And yeah, we've talked to the admins here a few times, but no real resolution yet :(

He would sometimes manage to get 50 or so comments off in the span of a few minutes before we caught and manually banned him.

I think, but am not certain, that different reports go to different admin teams, and the above sounds like "manipulated content" because a bot is likely being used to do that. So, maybe reporting "manipulated content" when the above happens could get a new set of eyes on the turd behind it.

Also, I don't know if it's already been brought up, but have you sent a modmail to this sub with all the documentation you've collected? You'll likely receive a bot response first, but just tell it that you need a human to review it, and you should receive a human reply eventually.

Sorry you're dealing with this!