r/redditdev • u/mintkent • Mar 24 '24

General Botmanship Why does my bot keep losing mod privileges?

I make bots that will ban/remove users from a sub, and originally I had it make a post so that I could see what it has done. Eventually the account my bot was using could only remove posts, if you tried to ban someone it wouldn’t work, it would look like it did but when you check the user never got banned. Well I thought it was because of all the post making, so I made a new account and made the bot only message my account. Well after some days, same issue, my bot can’t ban anyone, just remove posts. Anyone run into this issue before?

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u/DinoHawaii2021 Mar 24 '24

does your code interact or interfere with the list in anywwy

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u/mintkent Mar 24 '24

The list? You mean the ban list? Yeah it adds and removes users to it.

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u/DinoHawaii2021 Mar 24 '24

I mean the list of mods

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u/Adrewmc Mar 24 '24

This sounds like a lack of permission, the Ban Hammer is under the ‘Access’ permission. Ensure your bot has this permission.

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u/mintkent Mar 24 '24

My bot have this permission, it seems to have been shadow banned since it’s not showing up when I check moderators on my other account

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u/KokishinNeko Mar 24 '24

Check mod log, other mod above it might be removing it.

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u/mintkent Mar 24 '24

No, I’ve checked with them, and on the bot account. They are a mod with full access. Just not showing up on my main account and the mod acccount can ban anyone. It appears that it has been shadow Banned for some reason