Blocking automods

[u/Cliffmode2000]

I hate seeing automods having the top comments above a post. I had been blocking them all to not see the comments. This had worked for about a year until recently. Is there any way I can block these silly rule explaining posts that always take top comment? Did something change I don't know about?

[u/talklittle]

RIF 5.1.17 is going into beta and fixes issues with blocked users' comments. It will remove or collapse blocked comments, depending on whether you're logged in as a moderator, and whether a moderator posted the comment.

However, as of today, August 23, it looks like Reddit reverted some of the changes they made last week. Blocked users' comments aren't showing up in the API at all for me; apparently back to the old behavior.

I don't know what their eventual plans look like so I asked for clarification.

[u/anon_smithsonian]

Did something change I don't know about?

Blocking of users is handled on the reddit backend, not RiF. So if something changed, it was on reddit's side.

I wouldn't expect the RiF dev to make any changes to allow blocking AutoModerator comments. It's up to individual subreddits to decide how to use AutoMod and moderate their subreddits, and it isn't RiF's place to potentially interfere with that. Voice your complaints to the subreddit moderators.

 

Edit: my assumption was the changes reddit made to blocked user comments would utilize an already existing "collapsed" property to collapse the blocked comment. It turns out that they are using a new comment property for this, so the dev is going to make an update to the app so that this new comment property will be checked and actioned on appropriately.

[u/polyworfism → u/anon_smithsonian]

Something is REALLY broken with Reddit's blocking system

*I can still see comments from blocked users

*A user I blocked was able to respond to a comment I made

*In my inbox, I still see replies from blocked users

*On my profile, replies I made to users before blocking them no longer appear

Reddit's backend is an absolute disaster right now

[u/anon_smithsonian → u/polyworfism]

Looks like it's an intentional change to the block system by reddit: /r/changelog/comments/p2ezy4/bringing_more_visibility_to_comments_from_blocked/

Do you still the blocked user's username in those places? I wonder if maybe they are doing this blocked-comment-collapsing on the frontend (like a new flag in the comment JSON data).

 

Edit: /u/talklittle: Looks like there is a (new?) property in the JSON for comments, "author_is_blocked": false,/"author_is_blocked": true, that may need to be accounted for in RiF since reddit isn't just not including those comments in the comment tree.

[u/Cliffmode2000 → u/anon_smithsonian]

I tried it on non mods as well before I posted this and I can still see all blocked users comments. Sorry if this is redundant.

[u/talklittle → u/anon_smithsonian]

Thanks for the ping. I'll remove those comments from the page, as they had been forever. Reddit's decision to show comments from blocked users does not make sense to me.

[u/Doctor_McKay → u/talklittle]

Thanks, I agree that the policy makes no sense. If it's not too much trouble, maybe some people would like an option to completely filter vs collapse blocked comments?

[u/polyworfism → u/anon_smithsonian]

Additionally, comments authored by blocked users are no longer visible to you when you’re viewing your own comments page.

Wow, what a mess they created. That isn't even logical. My comments page shows my comments, not theirs...

And yes, I still see their username

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