AutoMod is currently missing from both Lemmy and Kbin.
If AutoMod gets baked in to one or the other (or both!) then this sort of thing will go away down. I was a mod on a 500k+ user subreddit and AutoMod did most of the heavy lifting for this stuff.
I mean, not much of it is behind the scenes. A lot of it is out in the open.
But generally, we had the following rules on the sub I helped run (/r/Disneyland):
If something has a couple reports, send a modmail for a mod to investigate
If something has a bunch of reports without any moderator action, remove it
If someone called AutoMod a “bad bot”, send a modmail for a mod to investigate
Automatically set post flairs based on keywords, common URLs, etc.
Auto-takedown posts with other URLs (link shortener, YouTube link, clickbait rumor mill sites like WDW/Disneyland News Today, etc.)
If a post seemed to be about our sister parks (“Tokyo”, “Paris”, “WDW”, etc.) then it was removed and the user asked to repost it in the appropriate subreddit
If a post was about an in-person meet-up, remove it and direct them to our Discord
If a post was asking about planning a trip, remove it and redirect to the planning subreddit
If a post was an AMA, remove it and send a modmail to confirm the person’s identity
Any sort of insults, politics (anti-vax etc.), or name-calling was removed, anywhere (this was a big one that did a lot of heavy lifting)
If an account had negative karma, remove any posts it made (usually trolls or bad novelty accounts)
Those were the big ones. It caused a lot of false positives and modqueue would always be full, so mods would go through the list a few times a day to find any stragglers that got caught in the filter.
AutoMod is currently missing from both Lemmy and Kbin.
If AutoMod gets baked in to one or the other (or both!) then this sort of thing will go away down. I was a mod on a 500k+ user subreddit and AutoMod did most of the heavy lifting for this stuff.
Can you give us any behind the scenes insight into how automod actually works?
I mean, not much of it is behind the scenes. A lot of it is out in the open.
But generally, we had the following rules on the sub I helped run (/r/Disneyland):
If something has a couple reports, send a modmail for a mod to investigate
If something has a bunch of reports without any moderator action, remove it
If someone called AutoMod a “bad bot”, send a modmail for a mod to investigate
Automatically set post flairs based on keywords, common URLs, etc.
Auto-takedown posts with other URLs (link shortener, YouTube link, clickbait rumor mill sites like WDW/Disneyland News Today, etc.)
If a post seemed to be about our sister parks (“Tokyo”, “Paris”, “WDW”, etc.) then it was removed and the user asked to repost it in the appropriate subreddit
If a post was about an in-person meet-up, remove it and direct them to our Discord
If a post was asking about planning a trip, remove it and redirect to the planning subreddit
If a post was an AMA, remove it and send a modmail to confirm the person’s identity
Any sort of insults, politics (anti-vax etc.), or name-calling was removed, anywhere (this was a big one that did a lot of heavy lifting)
If an account had negative karma, remove any posts it made (usually trolls or bad novelty accounts)
Those were the big ones. It caused a lot of false positives and modqueue would always be full, so mods would go through the list a few times a day to find any stragglers that got caught in the filter.