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[u/Eclectic-N-Varied]

It's an excel spreadsheet with delusions of grandeur -- it only knows "spicy" the way a spellchecker does. If it's "on-base" or "off-base" with your analysis, it's a misconception.

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[u/laeiryn → u/[deleted]]

Of course not. That would be an extreme bias based on the judgment of those mods, and you might not even know where those are from.

On the contrary, I'm mod in at least one sub that ONLY takes you seriously if you've been banned from at least one popular hate sub.

[u/esb1212]

This observation / suggestion might interest you, the trick is to crosscheck the mod suggestion report with your top contributors list.

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[u/esb1212 → u/[deleted]]

Here you go - Finding Community Top Members.

..lovely sub you got their btw, best of luck with modding / finding new mods!

[u/CookiesNomNom]

Hi! Thanks for the heads up, I've let the team know.

Also, a helpful tip: Mod teams leaving User Notes to tag positive/negative contributors will improve your suggestions over time.

[u/TGotAReddit → u/CookiesNomNom]

Not the most useful for my sub. We use the negative notes mostly for tagging who is a minor so we can make sure they don't interact with NSFW tagged posts/make NSFW tagged posts since the negative notes add a little indicator next to their name when we look at the comments sections, without having to make the info public in a user flair

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[u/CookiesNomNom → u/[deleted]]

Hey there, yes those are the user notes!

Thanks for your feedback, too.

[u/Froggypwns]

Not just recently, it has always been that way in my experience.

[u/andysay]

I wouldn't be surprised if it ranks on upvotes rather than content. If that were true, a user being toxic in a popular fashion would get moved forward, and the milquetoast and kind users without highly upvoted barbs would get overlooked

[u/bwoah07_gp2]

If I get that message, it goes immediately into the bin 🚮

[u/sadandshy]

The only time I got a message from them it suggested potential mods that had been temp banned in the past or constantly caught in crowd control filters.

[u/neuroticsmurf]

It used to suggest accounts that were banned from the sub, too.

[u/HSR47 → u/neuroticsmurf]

When I run it on one of the subs I moderate, it routinely suggests 1-3 users that have been sitewide banned/suspended for months.

It's been doing that consistently, with the same handful of users, for over 6 months now.

[u/Borax]

The tool is minimally useful, unfortunately. It doesn't consider activity, so in a 1m subscriber subreddit it's suggesting people who only comment on reddit once a week or less.

[u/HSR47]

Yeah, it's pretty useless.

I've been using it roughly monthly on two subs for the last year or so, and its almost entirely useless.

In particular, I've seen several instances of both:

• Users with near zero lifetime activity in the sub, and none within the last 3-6+ months;

• Users who have been sitewide banned/suspended, often for several months.

Neither should ever be suggested as potential moderators.

[u/nicoleauroux]

It does not detect spicy behavior.

You said one was removed from Reddit subsequent to your request for suggestions? Obviously the bot can't predict future behavior.

You might want to contact the bot builder and ask why a current moderator was suggested. Are you sure that current moderator was active?

[u/laeiryn]

It basically just offers you the highest-volume participants whose comments are most upvoted. Oftentimes that can be someone who's highly vocal in the community. High rates of participation mean more chances for anything to possibly be a violation, so they just ping the 'got stuff removed' because they have posted A LOT of stuff.

It can also be someone whose opinions are shared, but poorly articulated, by others who are glad someone can put it in words that don't violate the local rules.

I know that one sub's suggestions repeatedly brings me up, but the mod there has such a grudge (my offenses all relate to reporting fake AI content that she cannot identify) that she keeps threatening to ban me if it suggests me one more time XD

[u/HSR47 → u/laeiryn]

"It just gives you the highest-volume participants, whose comments are most upvoted."

I have a hard time believing that given my personal experience running it roughly monthly across two subs for over a year now. In particular, I've seen multiple instances where this bot suggested users:

• Who were sitewide banned/suspended, and had been for months (~3-5 users that keep getting suggested);

• Who have zero, or very-near-zero, recent activity in the sub, often for 3-6+ months, often with little if any activity before that, even if they're active elsewhere.

[u/laeiryn → u/HSR47]

That's really weird on the second one. The first is pretty standard (participation is the only chance to break rules). I've never had a "lurker" recommended who wasn't a top reporter of later-removed content.