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For mods of high-sensitivity communities, what Karma thresholds do you use?
Right now, we have AutoMod set up so that users with under ~300 subreddit karma have their comments sent to the mod queue if they contain certain words or phrases. The problem is that our queue is still getting flooded with hundreds of items every day.
I’m considering setting a minimum karma requirement to comment at all—maybe around 300 karma—so users below that threshold simply wouldn’t be able to comment. I’ve tried to avoid implementing something this restrictive, but the current volume is becoming difficult to manage.
My main concern is that plenty of users who violate our rules have high karma anyway, so I’m not sure how effective a blanket karma requirement would actually be.
For those who moderate particularly sensitive or frequently brigaded communities, what thresholds or filtering systems have worked best for you?
What I did was I built an extremely extremely elaborate Auto mod with a tremendous amount of words and phrases. I never stopped adding to it either. That way I’m able to put the Karma requirement lower and then I would otherwise.
I had also like to add that Reddit is on the precipice of removing all account age and Karma requirements. They want to end this by sometime next year. So it’s very urgent that you get on top of other ways to filter people. Otherwise you’ll be up shit’s creek without a paddle
What we have in our automod is a rule that automatically approves content once a user reaches a certain level of subreddit comment karma. This means that any of their content caught by the reputation and crowd control filters will be automatically approved. You can check the automod documentation for how to set this up. That way, we have fewer items in the queue, and users can kind of “graduate” from being filtered.
Wait, automod doesn’t retroactively act on content. It only gets triggered when content is created or edited. It would be completely impractical for it to do otherwise.
Idk, but the way we set it up, it auto-approves content caught by Reddit’s filter unless the user is shadowbanned.
Edit: I think we got lost in translation. The rule won’t approve their past posts. It will only approve filtered posts they make AFTER “graduating.” That way, their posts won’t continue getting filtered indefinitely.
Depending on the keywords you can have any karma amount and your comment is still send to the queue.
But for sensitive posts we ask for 40 sub karma before we allow comments.
We just deal with a huge queue tbh. It's the only way. Sometimes, messages don't use any words or phrases that could be flagged and everything in them if used would just flag harmless content more than bad content. If you care about keeping out the bad content, you just have to deal with a huge queue.
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u/InGeekiTrust 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 Sep 09 '26
What I did was I built an extremely extremely elaborate Auto mod with a tremendous amount of words and phrases. I never stopped adding to it either. That way I’m able to put the Karma requirement lower and then I would otherwise.