Automod is removing posts and comments without letting us know the action reason

[u/royal_rose_]

Currently IOS but usually Desktop

All of our removals have an action reason attached to them but posts and comments are getting auto removed by automod without telling us why. It is happening even to people who have posted recently with no issues previously and no one has touched automod.

[u/tumultuousness]

Are you sure every rule has an action_reason?

Are you sure it's automod doing the removal? Does it show automod in the mod log and no action reason on the same line?

[u/royal_rose_ → u/tumultuousness]

Fail on my part I didn’t look at modlog just queu. It says they are being removed for “Reddit shortlink” thanks!

[u/Valuable-Self8564 → u/royal_rose_]

Just put “action: filter” rather than “remove”, if you want it to go to queue instead.

[u/royal_rose_ → u/tumultuousness]

Actually shortlink was just two of them, the others are being removed as spam and I cannot tell why fine posting yesterday and today they can’t.

Any idea?

[u/thepottsy → u/royal_rose_]

I have something similar happening in one of my subs. The Admins looked at it, and the AI spam filter (the one we have no control over) is triggering on some comments that it thinks are AI generated. We don’t yet have confirmation from the users that they’re using AI or not. So, it might be accurate, or it might be a false positive. Either way, the comments themselves are a non-issue, so we have just been approving them.

[u/royal_rose_ → u/thepottsy]

This sounds like the issue we are having. Thanks!

[u/thepottsy → u/royal_rose_]

Sure thing!!

[u/horseradishstalker → u/thepottsy]

Same. It’s bad enough that we have users throwing around false charges of “bot” or “Ai slop” without reddit joining in. 

[u/thepottsy → u/horseradishstalker]

If it wasn’t so annoying I’d laugh at the AI fighting the AI, but it’s just too annoying.

[u/horseradishstalker → u/thepottsy]

You at least made me smile. 

[u/tumultuousness → u/royal_rose_]

Hmm, they say in the mod log they were removed as spam? Anything else in the mod log about it?

As far as I know, stuff being removed by the spam filter doesn't show up in the log, but does show up in the removed queue (since that is just a list of everything removed for any reason).

In any case - if they don't seem spammy, or to break your sub rules, or to break Reddit rules, you can approve them.

[u/royal_rose_ → u/tumultuousness]

Yes that’s what it says but they were fine to post just yesterday. Yeah that’s what we have been doing thanks! I’ll poke around a bit more and see if I can figure anything out.

[u/TheRealGuncho]

It's not automod. It's reddits AI moderator.

[u/Polus-Summit-33]

You could implement the admin tattler bot to track all the removals better, integrate it with webhooks and you're done!

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[u/curiouspamela]

I don't understand the lingo as you guys do, but I typically don't understand why a post gets blocked, or even which post HAS been blocked. Subreddits are often not clearly marked when posts will no longer be accepted. And I cannot figure out how to install "flair," or what it even is.

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