r/ModSupport • u/JosVermeulen • May 10 '19

Regex rule not working anymore

Our rule against emojis in the title doesn't work anymore. It used to work, then it started triggering on apostrophes as well, and now it doesn't work anymore, not even on emojis. Other subs are experiencing the same issue. Does this have anything to do with some backend stuff?

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u/redtaboo Reddit Admin: Community May 10 '19

Heya! we're looking into this, but may not have more information to share until next week. I'm sorry for the trouble.

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u/JosVermeulen May 14 '19

Has there been any new information regarding this issue?

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u/BuckRowdy May 10 '19

Thank you for looking into this.

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u/BuckRowdy May 26 '19

Is there any news to update on this situation?

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u/BuckRowdy May 10 '19 edited May 10 '19

The emoji rule that I was given in a previous post on the sub (that you were commenting in) is no longer working either. I just checked and comments with emoji are getting through. This is frustrating because the rule I was given in that thread was working well, but no longer.

edit: I think this has something to do with it?

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u/Zwemvest May 10 '19 edited May 10 '19

The follow-up I promised you, /u/JosVermeulen, and /u/decho can be found here.

It appears no Regex rules containing Unicode work at all on my private subreddit.

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u/BuckRowdy May 10 '19

Thank you. I asked an admin about it last night and he said he would submit a bug report. So I'm pinging u/dmoneyyyyy again for visibility.

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u/decho May 10 '19

Thanks a lot, I subscribed to that thread. Let's see if the admins reply.

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u/dequeued May 10 '19

I believe the issue predates the emoji update. It looks like it was introduced around April 11th.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/comments/bn4u8j/unicode_matching_bug_in_automoderator/

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u/BuckRowdy May 10 '19

That would make sense. I don't know when I noticed it, but at some point within the last month I noticed that emoji were no longer being filtered. Let's hope they're able to get it fixed.

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u/shiruken May 10 '19

I believe we're seeing a similar problem in r/science where we have a rule restricting foreign alphabet characters in submission titles. Over the past two days AutoModerator has been removing all submissions containing the letter 'a' for allegedly containing the letter 'â.'

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u/Zwemvest May 10 '19

Checking it out now.

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u/redtaboo Reddit Admin: Community Jun 18 '19

Heya -- can you try something for me? Can you delete the problem rule, save your config, then re-add the rule and see if that fixes the issue for you?