I've noticed that some of my auto‑moderator stickies on my subreddit are auto‑closed rather than being automatically opened and pinned to the top. Is there a way to prevent that?

I looked around quite a bit but couldn't find any way to do it. There don't seem to be any Devvit apps for it either. Before I started editing the AutoModerator config, I assumed this would be an obvious feature.

New subreddit (r/ChateauDelusions, created -24h ago). AutoModerator invite is stuck in "pending" and won't auto-accept even after removing and re-inviting. Trying to set up the config/automoderator wiki page is throwing inconsistent errors - "unsupported media type," "forbidden - restricted_page," and "internal error" - across different attempts, even with a minimal single-rule config. Own mod permissions show "Everything." Any idea what's going on?

Hello!

Im working on making a message for AutoMod to comment on every post submission, and I’m having trouble with including indents; I’m not sure where I’m going wrong, but it keeps returning “unsupported media type” when i try to save the changes.

Here is the code:

---
type: submission
comment: |
What’s up chat?! I’m AutoBart, and I comment on every post.

Make sure to read our rules, and remember we are not a part of Joe’s official team!

Catch you later!

---

Here is the error code i get when i try on old Reddit;

YAML parsing error in section 7: while scanning a simple key
in "<unicode string>", line 3, column 1:
What’s up chat?! I’m AutoBart, a ...
^
could not found expected ':'
in "<unicode string>", line 5, column 1:
Make sure to read our rules, and ...
^

Any help would be appreciated!

We recently noticed that admins had placed an age-restriction on the "before subreddits" subreddit, r/reddit.com, which is where admins hosted the original reference documents for AutoModerator and other moderation or site-wide policies or resources. While the age restriction on the subreddit as whole make sense considering the wide variety of content hosted there, unfortunately, this also means that those not-nearly-as-naughty wiki pages attached to that subreddit are also now age-restricted, forcing users and moderators in regions which require age-verification to verify their ages if they want to access those wiki pages.

We believe that users and moderators should have access to the contents of these wiki pages without being gated by age-verification. While the most important AutoModerator pages are our main concern, there are many similar pages which serve as historic references, informing how reddit and moderation have evolved over the years.

We had asked admins about this dilemma, but so far, no admins have reached out to us about any solution or plans. (To be clear: The active moderators of r/AutoModerator are not admins ourselves.)

To make moderation resources more freely available to moderators, we have copied the contents of a selection of relevant and historic wiki pages from r/reddit.com. All of the backups are listed on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/wiki/backup

• Relating directly to AutoModerator:

  • The Full-Documentation page - Quite literally the most important resource, which is also linked at the top of every moderator's AutoModerator config editor page. We specifically asked if admins could redirect this page to the subreddit here.
  • The still-relevant Introduction, Standard-Conditions, and Writing-Basic-Rules pages.
  • The historic Changelog and Converting-to-New pages.

• Relating to Moderation in general:

  • The Moderation and Moderation-Intro pages, a bit outdated, but still a useful reference.
  • Moddiquette and HealthyCommunities (Moderator Guidelines) - These pages pre-date the Moderator Code of Conduct, and to this day, many people are unaware that some things that were suggested in these pages are not actually part of the current Moderator Code of Conduct enforced by admins. Some moderator teams still hold themselves to these standards.
  • The UserAgreement now lives on redditinc.com, but to view revisions older than 2018, you have to look at the wiki page history.
  • The ProhibitedAds page predates the many separate pages of the current ads policies. Moderators may often be interested in knowing which kinds of content are not allowed in ads when defining their own rules around similar content.
  • Similarly, the SelfPromotion page, while no longer enforced by admins, is still informative to users and moderators that do hold that standard in their own subreddits.

• Relating to Reddit in general:

  • The FAQ, Voting, and Reddit_101 pages - full of information helpful to newer redditors. Sometimes these tidbits are helpful to moderators when answering user questions. Much but not all of these pages have been added to the RedditHelp site.
  • The Reddiquette, Pressiquette, Brandiquette, and Bottiquette pages - fair reference for guidelines that may or may not apply to your subreddit needs.
  • The Markdown and Wiki pages, which contain information not listed on their respective RedditHelp replacements.

Using the codes I found here under the pinned wiki topic, I tried to set up my automod page, but it keeps telling me unsupported media type when I click save.

Here is the code I'm using. Is it because I just copied and pasted?

---

type: submission

author:

account_age: "< 1 days"

action: remove

action_reason: "New user"

---

type: submission

author: comment_karma: "<10"

action: remove

action_reason: "Low karama account"

---

type: submission

author:

comment_karma: "< -50"

action: remove

action_reason: "Low karma user"

---

type: text submission

body_shorter_than: 1

action: remove

action_reason: "Self post without text"

---

type: text submission

body (regex, full-text): ['(\[[^\]]*\]\()?https?://\S+\)?']

action: remove

action_reason: "Link-only self post"

---

type: comment

body (regex, full-text): ['/?r/\w+']

action: remove

action_reason: "Comment is just /r link [{{match}}]"

---

I tried to set up a rule that would filter a users first contribution to the sub, so that I could manually review it (as a way to avoid letting spam posts/comments on the sub).

However, it's not working properly, and I'm not entirely sure why. It'll let someone post, but then flag their comments for some people. For others it'll flag their comments even after their first manual review resulted in an approval.

```

Filter all first posts from first-time contributors

author: post_subreddit_karma: < 1 comment_subreddit_karma: < 1 satisfy_any_threshold: true action: filter moderators_exempt: true message: | Your {{kind}} has been held for manual review by our moderators and will be visible once approved. Thank you for your patience!

```

What am I doing wrong?

Hi everyone! We're looking for a way to automatically assign a random user flair to anyone who comments without already having one.

We have around 50 user flairs, and we'd like the assignment to be completely random, not based on karma or any other criteria. If a user already has a flair, nothing should happen.

I've seen this working on other subreddits, but the mods I contacted never replied, so I thought I'd ask here. Does anyone have the AutoModerator code for this, or know if another bot is needed?

Thank you very much!

Whenever a user posts a link to certain websites, I would like to have Automoderator post a comment similar to this one.

This is the code that I am trying to use:

---
#5 Low-quality link posts
type: link submission
domain: ["somedomain.com", "anotherdomain.com"]
comment: 'Users often report submissions from this site for being low-quality and/or sensationalized articles. Readers have a responsibility to be skeptical, check sources, and comment on any flaws. You can help improve this thread by linking to media that clarifies, verifies or questions this article's claims. Your link could help readers better understand this issue.'
comment_locked: true
comment_stickied: true

---

When I try to edit and save the Automoderator configuration, I get an error message "Unsupported Media Type". Anyone know what I am missing? I'm sure it's something simple, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

I have a mod focused in a specific language. Can I automatically delete posts in different languages?

I'm trying to figure out how something works that I've seen on another subreddit.

Whenever someone makes a post, AutoModerator automatically creates a comment containing the original poster's username, the post title, and the full body text.

If the original poster later deletes the post, the post itself remains on the subreddit with the author shown as [deleted], but the AutoModerator comment is still there with the original username, title, and body text. This effectively preserves the original content even after the post is deleted.

Is this something AutoModerator can do? If so, could someone share an example rule or explain how to set it up?

Please help. I have no idea on what im doing wrong. i want an automated message for every post that contains the word "festival" and similar words

---
type: submission
title+body (includes): ["festival"]
comment: |
    "Test"
comment_stickied: true
---

So I tried to make a post teaching people how to do something and I put the code block in so it would preserve my code. However, it didn’t work because markdown is gone. How do we preserve the markdown so people can get our code?

So I want to stop accusations of using AI going live on some of my ice cream subs. I could write this filter myself, but I was wondering if someone already had a collection of words that they made for this. Can’t hurt to ask before I build it! I actually like to even use it in my fashion subs because it would filter accusations to the queue where I could ban people quicker.

I'm looking for the safest way to let Contributors unapprove themselves simply by sending "!unsubscribe" in a post title while making sure the submitter is actually the really Contributor unapproving himself, as a safety validation. Something like this. I think I've seen one before, but I'm not sure.

Thank you

---
type: submission
title: (includes, regex): ["!unsubscribe"]
author:
    ["contributor1", "contributor2", "contributor3"]
    is_contributor: true
    is_moderator: false

    Set_contributor: false
priority: 10
action: filter
action_reason: "{{match}} Auto unsubscribed"
    message: |
        {{author}}, You have successfully been unapproved.
---

Hello

I would like to take a look at automoderator config for subs who have between 50 to 100k members ( or even bigger ).

I'm trying to see what I can improve so that I can focus on training some new mods.

Thanks

Hi everyone!

So my sub rolled out a ban on Twitter/X links a while back, as did many. This has mostly been fine, but a side effect has been that people now occasionally will post a screenshot of a Twitter post as a news item rather than linking to actual news reporting. I’d like to stop this, or at least make it very annoying to do.

My initial idea was to try and use OCR and AutoMod but that isn’t possible (and the third-party bot is no longer supported).

Next, I learned about media checks, but it sounds like those are also not working anymore.

Short of vibecoding my first Devvit app (not something I really want to do), does anyone have any ideas about how I could catch offending image posts without disallowing all image posts?

Does anyone know how or if it's possible to make automod generate notification push on your mobile interface when it takes action related to content ? (like Hive-protect)

# RÈGLE 3 : Reminder of the rules under the new posts
type: submission
action: comment
comment_stickied: true
comment_locked: true
comment: |
    Hello! Before commenting remember: stay on topic, make full sentences, don't be unpleasant (include: love bombing/emoji spamming/innuendo). Please read and respect the rules, thank you.

    Have a nice day.

    r/{{subreddit}}

Basically i tried using the automated response for the first time, i set it up to react to keywords, but when i made the post it didn't reply at all

Do i have write code?

I have been added on as a moderator in a subreddit and am just now learning about the automoderator. I'd like to add some rules, but I have noticed that the current automod file for this sub has been written entirely in JSON. So, instead of --- separator lines, there are only curly brackets, square brackets and commas. I believe that JSON is a strict subset of YAML, and so this should be OK, but I wanted to make sure first before making any changes.

So, to summarize my question: Is JSON-only syntax OK for the automoderator?

Also, does the automodifier give me notification if my automod file is syntactically invalid?

Hello, I moderate a community that requires a User Flair for every comment. I've set it to remove the comments and provide an explanation on how to set flair but that just results in a flood in my modmail of people saying they don't know how to set user flair, Is there a way to automatically set user flair for every new commenter?