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What is @automod doing? (self.support)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by tibo to c/support

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I am totally new to lemmy.world and it didn't start well. But here I am, trying to understand.

My first post was removed by automod from Not the Onion because it was not onion-y [not too sure if you have visibility so that was the article: U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs]. I have to say the human moderator replied to my message. Let's see how that goes.

My second post was removed by automod from General Discussion. Automod wrote: this is not a support forum. It’s one thing to suggest another forum and a totally different thing to remove the post from General Discussion.

It was saying the following:

Is @automod programmed by Zionists?

Just got on lemmy.world and my first post in Not the Onion was removed by @automod with the argument not onion-y.

My assumption is in the title but I could be wrong. Any ideas anyone?

https://lemmy.world/post/12763287

edit: in the title I changed the word Israelis to Zionists and apologies for my mistake to Israeli people that are not Zionists.

What is automod doing? That's my question for real. If that's what moderating looks like in lemmy.world please let me know.

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[–] ElectroVagrant 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I'm pretty sure Automod still needs some fine-tuning, as I also found myself recently caught by it for making a post with a bunch of community links in [email protected], which I happen to moderate. 😅

It was resolved quickly and I understood why it may have flagged it (lots of links! that's sus!), but that was enough of a tell to me that it's still being worked on. Your experience also suggests as much I think. Due to the nature of it I wouldn't expect too much clarity since they don't want to enable evading it, but hopefully they at least drop by to be like, "Yeah sorry, still a work-in-progress."

Edit:
Regarding the second post, that wasn't automod, that was one of us in General Discussion. Sorry about that, probably would have been better to point you here and lock it rather than remove it. I'll talk to them about that for future reference.

[–] tibo 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I also thought initially something along those lines, that it’s a bug not a feature. Time will tell I guess which of the 2 it is.

Regarding the second post, that wasn’t automod, that was one of us in General Discussion

I don't know why you would say this. Here is a screenshot I took yesterday.

[–] ElectroVagrant 1 points 8 months ago

I don’t know why you would say this. Here is a screenshot I took yesterday.

Mainly because I'm one of the moderators of the community, and so can see some more detail on what happened. I wasn't aware that AutoMod is set to notify people when their posts/comments have been moderated, which is why you received that message.

As you can gather, AutoMod isn't something community moderators have deployed themselves (which is why I'm as unaware as you are of some of its functions), but is something from the admins in an effort to help moderate the instance as a whole.