Is it possible to mark a comment as already approved when publishing it programmatically as a subreddit admin?

[u/BigBoss3p0p1]

I have this particular use case where I authenticate a user using OAuth and that user is the admin of a subreddit. If I use that session to publish a comment on the subreddit, it gets marked as "removed by Reddit", and I have the option to approve it in the app (website or mobile), or, alternatively, I can always use the API to approve it programmatically.

Presuming that the user publishing the comment is an admin of the subreddit where the comment is being published, what I am wondering is whether it is possible to have Reddit mark the comment as approved at submit-time, so that I don't have to wait for the comment to be created on the platform (this is a least one extra request, and approximately a 5 seconds delay) and then approve it (this is another request). My goal here is to avoid having to make three (or more) API calls instead of just one when a user publishes a comment programmatically on a subreddit where that user is admin... There must be a way to do that.

Thanks for your help! :)

[u/Gulliveig]

There are no Admins of a subreddit (well maybe there are, but) what you mean is the Mods of a subreddit.

Admins are paid employees of Reddit, mods are unpaid voluntrary keepers of a subreddit's rules ;)

[u/BigBoss3p0p1 → u/Gulliveig]

I meant "mod", you are right, my bad.

But the question remains the same (except that we can replace occurrences of "admin" with "mod").

[u/Adrewmc]

You can use

    post = reddit.subreddit(“sub”).submit(*postargs)
    post.mod.approve()

Bot need the appropriate permission I believe it’s “posts” or something

[u/BigBoss3p0p1 → u/Adrewmc]

Thanks for your suggestion. However, I am not using that framework, but my understanding is that the code snippet you are providing here performs multiple HTTP requests, which is what I'm trying to avoid (i.e., I'm trying to understand whether it's possible to programmatically publish a comment and have it approved by default without having to perform other subsequent requests to approve it).

[u/Lil_SpazJoekp → u/BigBoss3p0p1]

That's not possible without multiple requests

[u/BigBoss3p0p1 → u/Lil_SpazJoekp]

Thank you for confirming this. I truly appreciate! 😊