You helped creating a bot that punishes users for posting certain words. You used those same words in your message and got a treatment not unlike the one you were helping to automate.
Maybe there is a lesson here somewhere.
Maybe there is a lesson here somewhere.
If you click through to their offending thread, the AutoMod profile they built has a field value of "action: report". As I understand it, that means it does nothing but forward the flagged comment to a human moderator for review. As benign and judicious a use of automation as you can get.
*edit: s/permanently/temporarily/ (sorry!)
For three days, not permanently:
>"You’ve been banned from Reddit for three days"
It's a little unfortunate, but 3 days isn't terrible, and it's a good lesson in false positives.
No, I did not. The bot would not punish the user in any way, it would simply hide the comment from other users without even informing the OP.
I'm not sure if you're understanding the situation, the bot would remove comments containing the n-word, r-word and other very insulting slurs
This is shadowbanning, and is a very bad feature of Reddit. If someone's comment or post is removed, that person ought to a) be notified or, at least, b) get the chance to see for himself that it has been removed. Fooling the poster into thinking that all is well is terrible from both UI/UX and general human being perspectives.
>I'm not sure if you're understanding the situation, the bot would remove comments containing the n-word, r-word and other very insulting slurs
Thinking that shadowbanning is a good thing is really retarded.
Punishment without awareness is not going to change behaviour. You've created a system that doesn't address the root cause, so you're creating a game of whack-a-mole for yourself.
Why do you think people should be free to call other users ni***r or re***d?
But what alternatives are here? "Report" button, and human reviewing each and every instance of it? We've all heard horror stories about fb moderators burning out and getting PTSD from this kind of work.
The amount of overmoderation on the site is ridiculous. You have the site admins, then the subreddit mods, then the moderation by the users themselves, then the automatic stuff. You can still block users and filter subjects.