What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse?

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• Skavau@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I made a post on this some weeks back. Whether it would be through an ‘automod’ bot (ideally not, in my opinion) - or community settings preventing posts from even going out is another matter.

  • Automatic removal option to remove posts and/or comments for specific keywords. This would be most useful for automatically removing posts and comments when people slur. Piefed already has a keyword filter for visibility. This could be expanded to community settings. Have it also fire-off a report to the moderators when someone triggers it.
  • Automatic URL removal. Allow communities to blacklist specific urls. Useful for politics or news communities that want to negate sources known for misinformation.
  • Automatic removal for repeat URL posting. Very useful for politics or news communities to prevent double-posting.
  • Make it so a community can set itself up to only accept text posts, video posts, or image posts. This should prevent tedious janitorial cleanup for communities that only allow links, or text posts (the most common two).
  • Post Delay Restrictions. Some communities, perhaps not many, might be interested in posting cooldowns for users. So you can only post 1 post every hour, or 2 posts every hour - or whatever the chosen limit is. This would help negate spammers and over-enthusiastic posters flooding a topical community.
  • Post Formatting Requirements. This one could be trickier and more effort than most of the others, but setting conditions for the formatting of new posts would be useful.

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  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All of them are possible with my current design plan, which is allowing mods to write the functionality themselves (instead of predefining them like in some other automods).

    I might still predefine some myself for performance.

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• shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Scheduled posts

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  • FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In the mean-time this works schedule.lemmings.world/auth/login

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  • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Piefed has them

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  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Piefed has scheduled posts. I haven’t used it because I have no reason to, but the functionality is there.

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  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For automated ones, sure. But if you just want to schedule some post you made, that functionality is already available in Piefed and will be available in Lemmy in the next 1.0.0 release as well.

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• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Automods are bad tools that result in more abuse than the problems they solve.

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For context, this is what reddit’s limited automod is like

  www.reddit.com/r/…/full-documentation/

  I’m sure we can do better. For example, being able to use variables

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  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Of course. Reddit’s automod is very simple.

    My current design plan is leaving the implementation to community mods by embedding sandboxed Lua (might change).

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• sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Duplication post removal.

  Sometimes two or more users post independently on a short time not knowing that a thread already exist.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Set a minimum age for posts and comments.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Automod was one of the worst things to happen to Reddit from a user experience standpoint. So what I want from an automod is to never see one.

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Without automod functionality, every single subreddit of notable size becomes utterly bombarded with off-topic posts and spam.

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  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, there is also a need for automatic moderation.

    Humans can’t catch everything.

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    By the way, mind telling me what was infuriating about Reddit’s automod to you?

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Automatically removing comments without human oversight and for mundane things.

      Randomly triggered a hidden keyword? Goodbye post.

      Only wrote 49 words instead of 50? Goodbye post.

      Account didn’t get enough updoots from strangers prior to posting? Goodbye post.

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• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Automatic comment replies based on keywords or key phrases.

  Basically, if a comment contains a specific string, the automod would reply with a corresponding string, configurable by the community moderators.

  Would this be doable?

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• LimpRimble@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  • Controllable by a simple, easily understood scripting language. Lua for example.
  • A sense of time and date.
  • Powerful regex interpreter.
  • Open source.
  • Documentation. Maybe a wiki?
  • Easily configurable for each instance so that admins aren’t afraid to install it.

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• FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would like to be notified when users who are on a warning post or comment.

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