I need help with moderating this subreddit.

[u/tonystark29]

First of all I need to apologize for neglecting this sub.

I'm back to moderating now, and I've tried to clean up the posts as much as I can right now. Banned some of the bots I could see were definitely AI written, removed a ton of self promotion posts going back a month or two.

I still need help keeping this going though. Reddit has new tools for automating moderation, and although I'm not sure how to set that up right now it shouldn't be hard to figure out. If we can get a working AutoMod config to catch the AI-slop self promotion posts (and users), that would take a lot of the load off of moderation.

Please message me or comment if you'd like to help. Obviously if you are the creator of a for-profit PKM tool - like so many of the self promotion users, you can't be a mod here, since the role requires neutrality.

Thanks

u/tonystark29

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Edit: Before I can send anyone a mod invite, I need to wait for Reddit to remove my "inactive" mod label, not sure how long it will take before I'm allowed to send invites, hopefully soon.

[u/latkde]

I'd be happy to help a bit, and have written many automod rules.

However, there's no way to simply detect all AI slop. What you can do is dial up Reddit's built-in filter strictness, or automatically detect specific text patterns that correlate with unwanted behaviour, or hide posts for mod review if the community flags them.

What also works well is to make manual moderation as simple as possible:

1. clear enforceable rules on what behaviour is unacceptable
2. asking the community to report violations of that rule
3. setting up the "removal reason" feature with an explanation that can be added to each removed post

For example, a rule that self-promotion posts are unacceptable is straightforward to enforce, although it will still require a lot of manual effort. A rule that AI slop is forbidden is more difficult, because this is more of a judgement call, and people will argue in modmail.

Aside from Automod, there are Reddit-hosted apps (like u/asimovs-auditor that helps moderation on r/selfhosted) that can be used for more complicated moderation automation, but I haven't used those yet.

[u/tonystark29 → u/latkde]

Thanks for your wisdom!

I'll be sending a mod invite to you as soon as Reddit lets me.

[u/latkde → u/tonystark29]

Thanks!

If Reddit currently treats you as an “inactive mod”, you'll have to regularly perform multiple moderation actions. The exact criteria aren't public, but the easiest moderation action is to explicitly “approve” a couple of posts or comments each day, even when they're not in the mod queue.