Small proactive update. Sometimes I read https://www.reddit.com/user/aiautomoderator/ to check how the bot is behaving, and recently I noticed a bug and an uncovered use case.

The bug: If planets align, you could have a Devvit app that removes a post and, just after that, AI AutoModerator approves it, because Devvit app actions aren't really prioritized in any way. This has been fixed.

The use case: More often than one would like, in friend-seeking subreddits, there are posts from people with male usernames looking for "female friends only." 🙄 An AI can easily detect this... if you provide the username as context, that is. I wasn't doing that because I hadn't identified a use case for it until now. Now I'm adding it.

For a more detailed Devpost about recent features and future ideas, check this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AiAutoModerator/comments/1x1j1p4/released_version_2177/

The title is a bit vague, but I'm noticing that it is not removing posts that aren't within the guidelines anymore. I.E it used to remove posts that had photos of just beer and smokes instead of food. I want it to continue to do this as our community is about the food and a diary entry.

Because i have one:

If i set this up, does it clash with existing built in rules? what happens if there are rules i have set up using reddit's current setup?

It's hard to believe it's already been a year. Thank you to everyone who has installed, tested, reported bugs, suggested features, or simply given the app a try. Your feedback has helped shape it into what it is today.

Here's to another year of saving moderators time! 🍻

If you'd like, wish AI AutoModerator a Happy Cake Day in the comments below!

I think it is an issue with some models in the API, can you bring the model switch back maybe?

I feel that with all the AI and vibe-coding, there is a very important programming skill that is being lost: going back to your code, changing variable names to make them easier for you to understand, refactoring into submodules that make sense to you, all with the objective of making your program... yours. Knowing it like the palm of your hand, being able to navigate it and fix any bug quickly, having the intuition to know where something might be amiss.

I'm kinda worried about people who are delegating everything to AI because the AI is doing it in a way that's easy for itself to navigate. The moment the AI fails for some reason, the moment it can't fit all the code into its context... That moment, you are lost.

So this last update was just me refactoring, revisiting some code I wrote months ago and reorganizing it after learning new things. Nothing flashy, you won't notice any new features, but it is a message about my real commitment to this project.

It hasn't been an easy path. Redditors are not usually very kind when they see the word "AI" anywhere, and Devvit is just so bad in terms of the development experience. But I see subreddits using this and finding it very helpful, and that makes me keep going.

I believe there is too much black-and-white thinking about AI. Just as I say here that some people are going too crazy about it and that delegating everything in coding will come with issues, I also believe there are some use cases where, if you properly consider its limitations, you can put AI at the center of things and make it very useful. Moderation is definitely one of them. Before, people were trying to do this with crazy regex. You don't need to do that anymore.

But don't ask it to do basically EVERYTHING on a subreddit, because it won't be able to.

Balance.

https://developers.reddit.com/apps/aiautomoderator

Thought I'd share a bit about the project.

This version includes a modmail notification for updates, with an easy link to update the app. This is a historical issue with all Devvit apps: people install them and then forget to update them. I hope this helps people keep this one updated, at least.

In an app like this, it's especially important because everything AI-related is changing so fast that you may end up with a broken version and not even notice.

I've also laid the groundwork in the code for some extra controls that I'll add to the settings, following feedback I received in a post about how useful it would be to enable or disable automatic rule enforcement. Makes sense.

Reddit is implementing something pretty similar, though, which initially worried me about the future of this app. However, I saw that the general feedback is that it works badly, while the general feedback on this app is that it works great, so I got a bit less worried. :)

The approach of this app is a bit different from Reddit's anyway, and the automatic comments it posts have lots of potential for explaining rules and sharing information in a personalized way. This helps reduce the habituation that makes people ignore AutoMod comments after seeing them so often, making them more aware of your rules and hopefully reducing your moderation load.

I think all subreddits using this app are pretty happy with it. If you aren't, feel free to share what you think should be improved!

I also believe you should be able to get more feedback about what the app is actually improving on your subreddit, so I'm thinking about adding some statistics and extra notifications.

I also have an idea in mind about how to add comment moderation while keeping your Gemini usage (and the app's) completely free. I think people are so focused on new models, vibecoding, more intelligence, and all that, that they aren't aware of how generous Gemini's free-tier limits can be when using older models, which work just fine for this use case as long as you write a good prompt (and I've put a lot of thought into the prompt for this app!). But oh well, that's their loss!

Hope the app is being helpful. Stay tuned for the new changes!

Right now, AI AutoModerator only moderates posts. This is a deliberate design choice: most subreddits receive far more comments than posts, so enabling comment moderation could exhaust the AI API limits much more quickly. If that happens, AI AutoModerator could become unresponsive for both posts and comments.

That said, a few people have told me they'd accept the increased API usage (and cost) if it meant comments could be moderated too.

If I implement this, I'll look into ways to keep it sustainable. Some ideas include:

• Prefiltering comments so only those that actually need AI review are sent (for example, skipping comments already removed by AutoModerator).

• Batching multiple comments into a single AI request, reducing API usage at the cost of slightly slower moderation.

• Adding configurable options so moderators can choose how aggressively comments are reviewed.

If this is something you'd find useful, let me know in the comments. I'd also love to hear any ideas for making comment moderation practical without exhausting the API limits.

Appears AI Moderator Isn't doing anything anymore.

Not approving posts, not denying posts. Was working fine yesterday and then updated and now it doesn't do anything,

The part that says "This assessment was performed automatically with an LLM."

Any thoughts here?

It seems that, recently, Gemma 4 31B has been taking too long to respond, causing Devvit to terminate the connection. This seems to happen especially often with posts that contain images.

If you're on the free tier, I recommend switching to gemma-4-26b-a4b-it as a workaround.

If you want to use other models, you can also check your current rate limits here: https://aistudio.google.com/rate-limit