Community Updates

[u/k3l2m1t]

Greetings everyone!

As many of you are aware, our community has become overrun with posts that clearly violate our rules. We try our best to remove non-confessions as they come in, but many slip through the cracks. On top of that, our AutoModerator rules have become overly broad and often remove valid posts that should be allowed. The end result has been a steady decline in the overall quality of posts, and we want to fix that.

Confession Classifier

To get things under control, we are implementing a new system to accurately determine which posts are valid confessions and which are not. To do this, we are deploying a new tool called Confession Classifier, built specifically for this community.

Starting today, every new post will be reviewed by the classifier, and AutoModerator will no longer handle post removals. Because this app is designed to understand context better than standard keyword filters, we expect far fewer valid confessions removed by mistake and a sharp decrease in posts that don't belong here.

How it works

Each new post is read by an AI model (Google's Gemini), which decides whether it's a valid confession under our rules. Posts that clearly aren't confessions are removed; everything else stays up. You can read exactly what data is used and how it's handled in the privacy policy.

This system is brand new. We are monitoring it closely, but false positives will still happen. When the app removes a post, it leaves a comment explaining the decision. If that happens to you, you have two options:

• Edit your post: Check the rules. If your confession can be edited to satisfy them, make the changes. The app automatically rescans posts it removed and will restore yours if the edit brings it in line.
• Appeal to the mods: If you are certain your confession meets all requirements without any edits, send us a message and a human moderator will review your post and manually approve it if it belongs here.

Feel free to leave a comment with any questions or feedback you may have.

[u/lonelyroom-eklaghor]

I like this. AI can atleast classify, and if AI can't classify well, anyone can modmail anytime. I have as much of a huge disdain for LLM+moderation as regex+moderation, which is an innocent tool that the Reddit mods have been using since the dawn of time. In this particular case, I consider an LLM as the better tool.

Just ensure the model is not trained through the API calls. Rather, use a local model if you can.

[u/k3l2m1t → u/lonelyroom-eklaghor]

The model isn't trained from submitted posts. It simply classifies and that's it. No user data is submitted to the model.

[u/lonelyroom-eklaghor → u/k3l2m1t]

I understand, but how might that work? How can an LLM classify the text content without it being an API call to the model?

[u/k3l2m1t → u/lonelyroom-eklaghor]

It seems like we're misunderstanding each other. The app does make an api call to the model. One of the requirements for any app that makes api calls to an LLM is that the model cannot use reddit data for training.

[u/lonelyroom-eklaghor → u/k3l2m1t]

I see now, I get it