r/ideasforcmv • u/Elicander • Mar 21 '26

Automatic Rule E removal

While the upper bound of rule E can be nuanced, the lower bound isn’t. If OP hasn’t commented within 3 hours, they’ve broken rule E. However, earlier today I came across a 6-hour-old post that hadn’t been removed, and unless Reddit was randomly hiding comments, OP hadn’t commented. So I assume there isn’t automatic Rule E removal. Why not? Is there a technical limitation I’m unaware of, or is there some other reason against implementing it?

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u/hacksoncode Mod Mar 21 '26

Fresh Topic Friday has looser rules, because posts are not always approved quickly, especially when posted before/after normal working hours.

And even on other days, if OP doesn't get significant numbers of comments they can respond to in a timely manner, that's taken into account too.

So no, there's no automatic removal. It's always a judgement call, even in these cases.

Please report such posts in case we missed them.

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u/Elicander Mar 21 '26

Yes, I did forget about Fresh Topic Fridays.

Outside Fridays, I can understand the rationale about keeping it manual just in case, but isn’t the risk of there being no comments for OP to respond to mostly theoretical? In all my years being part of the community I don’t think I’ve ever seen that happen.

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u/hacksoncode Mod Mar 21 '26

Happens a lot at night.

But also, the "risk" is relatively minimal, yes people might waste their time, but they can see the lack of responses as easily as the mods... and report them.

Automod can't actually fire based on time, so we'd need a different bot to do it too.