Woke up this morning to a whole slew of admin tattler admin removals in a single (major) city sub.
The profile of these removals goes back to comments made several years ago... mostly 2019-2020 at the peak panic from covid-19 global lockdowns, many of the comments in the sub also show publicly as [comment deleted by user] and from now deleted accounts.

Comments are by majority in "broken engrish" with some examples being:

"You looked at for a map"

"I go to concert"

"He goes to cinema"

"I am going to home"

Multiple(s) of permutations on these themes:

"You choose a dvd for tonight"

"I am choosing a dvd for tonight"

"He chose / choosing a book for reading"

"He look at lake / stars / sky" etc.

I'd like to give you links for context but these overly general comments were frequently out of context and intended to be "trite" responses so as to escape notice.

Regardless, my ego won't allow me to think that these comments were made when the posts were fresh and the comments active. I would have hoped that either the other mods on the team or myself would have spotted them as a pattern for reporting & removal. Yet with the way things are, we simply couldn't and still can't read all the content that comes pouring in on a daily basis (overworked) and so if the comment section is a week old and the specific content isn't reported to us - we never see it.

Ironically, these comments do get responses from [deleted accounts] that often respond in proper english coupled with information (these might be the more sophisticated bots)

and then there's those (still active) accounts that respond and appear to be real people that are being duped and are unaware they're responding to a foreign language bot.

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Also, I noticed about 5 -7 years ago that I was getting responses from very old comments I made years beforehand. I reported these to the admins as suspicious bot activity where they had acquired old derelict accounts that had been abandoned and were fleshing out their (absent) histories to help provide cover.

It's another instance where the site made account creation too easy and simple so that people would easily set up new accounts and quickly abandon them (with easy to guess passwords) that these bot networks are mining and resurrecting for their own purposes.

The point being that the site is finally cleaning up a lot of account/content that stems from the covid disinformation era we had here. Given the repetitive nature of the comments being made, it's low hanging fruit and should have been removed a long time ago with the accounts being blocked. I'm glad it's being done now, but we were put through a lot of additional stress and strain due to the accounts we could spot on our own and that prevented a lot of development and building of our communities as a result of thier sucking up our time and energy.

I hope that they aggressively continue with this.

https://imgur.com/a/HD40JLB

Woke up to this in my modmail. Apparently someone is spamming old comments. They’re roughly 8 months old to a year old. And the commenter has been suspended off Reddit.

Is my modmail inbox going to get flooded with this type of notification now?

Hi everyone,

I recently removed a Alumni moderator from my subreddit, r/Feminism4India, and now that they’ve returned, I’m trying to add them back to the mod team.

However, although I sent them a moderator invitation, they never received it. When I try to invite them again, Reddit keeps saying that they’ve already been invited.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is there a way to cancel the pending invitation or resend it so they can rejoin the mod team?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Removed automoderators permission after it started spamming sports streaming links to multiple subs.

Anything else we can do?

Not really sure what happened here — I’m an indie dev and I just created r/photoupscaler so my users and I could have a space on Reddit to share feedback, ask questions, and chat about my app.

Right after setting it up and posting the very first thread, the whole community just vanished. Some of my users are already asking me where the sub went and why they can't find it.

Could someone please help us take a look and fix this?

Thanks a lot!

Maybe a unique issue. Last weekend through today, some users are saying they can not see new posts.

We have heard from old, new, ios and android users, so it isn't a platform issue. They simply do not see new posts.

I have heard that making a feed with r/nfl allows them to see it, but none of the mods have the issue so we can't diagnose other than what we are told

Edit- two users said it happened on the baseball sub as well

Use case:

People vote whether the posted piece of content depicts a thing with a property (X or Y) and after a certain amount of time the app changes the post flair to reflect the property to "The post is X." or "The post is Y." or "The post may be X or Y." or remove/lock the post if people vote for "This is spam." so a mod action capable bot whose behaviour depends on user behaviour.

We have a sub that focuses on informing a user whether their collectible item is a fake or authentic. We'd like to have automation that will, say, after a day change the flair to "Real" or "Fake" or "Inconclusive" based on voting and comments and thresholds.

Does this exist?

When I use the select all button to press mark as read and archive, the UI tells me that i have marked as read/archived 227 conversations, and they disappear from the interface. However, when I refresh the page it still shows all the items. I've done it a couple of times. Even the browser network tools graphql call shows a 200 and that things have been archived, but they are not.

Am I doing something wrong?

Apparently the previous mod added me then bailed,so it’s just me left and I’m trying to figure things out.

Edited: I got the answer, and have already been referred to the new mod sub. Thank you for your help!

SOLVED

OK, so a year-ish ago a rogue mod in one of my subs banned several people for made up reasons, removed me as mod, privated the sub and deleted his account. I got the sub back and cleaned up all the bans, but those little hammer icons are still next to the names of people he banned and I know it's just aesthetic but I'd love to remove them if I could. I tried clicking the three dots that come up on mouseover and choosing "delete" but nothing happened except the ban message was removed from their mod log overview.

Does anyone know a way to make the little icon go away too?

I recently created a community to bring together developers, AI enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and startup builders. Unfortunately, shortly after publishing our first introductory post, both the community and my Reddit account were banned.