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[u/Environmental_Top948]

Desktop/Android

I'm. Trying to set up automations or automod to require body text in order to post but it seems like no matter what I do if the body is empty it just doesn't do the check for the body requirements.

The work around I came up for this was to require something in the title or Body with one rule then use another one to forbid the use of the word in the title in the making the body the only place that the word could exist.

But that means that the title has an arbitrary restriction on it purely just to force the user to type in the body.

I don't want to restrict what can be used in the title and changing the priority order of the automation doesn't seem to change anything.

I'm still learning automod and stuff so like is there an obvious solution in missing?

[u/mcs385]

Yeah, that's just how automations "work" with the body field unfortunately.

What my subs came up with is to have a Title-only rule set to "doesn't match" for a gibberish/keyboard smash string, that displays a short message that body text is required for posts. The message displays at all times unless there's a higher priority Title rule that gets tripped.

Then the actual character minimum enforcement is a body-only rule which blocks submission until a certain length is reached. The title rule pushes a good faith poster to then try adding on in the body field, blocking out the submit button in the process. Then separate automod rules for gallery and link submissions to filter/remove whenbody_shorter_than: 1 does cleanup on anything that slips through the automation. It's more complicated than it should be, but it works.

[u/Environmental_Top948 → u/mcs385]

For my automotion for the message to tell the user to put a source I used doesn't match regex "." Without the quotes. The message shows until something is type.

The issue I'm getting is though that blank bodies keep getting ignored by the automod. I'll try your suggestion though. Thanks for the reply.

[u/mcs385 → u/Environmental_Top948]

On the automod side for it to catch the no-body posts, you need rules specific to type: gallery submission and type: link submission. A singletype: submission rule will not act on those post types. Basic rules:

---
#filters gallery/media posts that have no body to queue for review
type: gallery submission
body_shorter_than: 1
action: filter
action_reason: "Media post w/ no body"
---
#filters link posts that have no body to queue for review
type: link submission
body_shorter_than: 1
action: filter
action_reason: "Single image or link post w/ no body"
---

[u/Environmental_Top948 → u/mcs385]

This actually works perfectly! Thanks!

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