Moderation Bots

This is an update/extension of the list from this post.

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Most of the bots are hosted by their creators and can be used solely by adding them as mods with the permissions they require (and configuring them when needed), but a few of them require you to host them yourself on your machine or through a hosting service (noted where applicable).

Banning spam bots

These bots rely on users to submit the spam bots to these 2 bots' subreddits. Both also support whitelisting bots that are useful to your sub by unbanning them (when needed) and adding them as Approved users.

Rate limit for posting

Limiting the amount of posts each user can submit per a specific amount of time

Reposts detection

Mod actions/macros through flair change

These bots allow you to run pre-configured actions from flairing a post with specific mod-only post flairs. They also allow the mod team to act as a unit without mods getting singled out for the specific mod actions they perform, similar to responding as the subreddit in modmail.

Note: Both Reddit and r/toolbox allow you to create Removal Reasons which you can choose/configure to post as comments or to send as modmail (as yourself or as the subreddit)

• Reddit - only applies to posts / you need to click "Add removal reason" after you remove a post

• Toolbox (you can skip the Advanced-Settings sections) - applies to comments as well, but when you remove a comment on New Reddit you need to refresh the page and click "Add removal reason" above it / allows you to set a custom post flair for each removal

Quality control for posts through voting

Allows users to vote if a post belongs in the subreddit and should stay up or if it's off-topic or otherwise breaking one of the subreddit's rule and should be removed. ("Upvote this comment if... downvote if...")

Post flair enforcing

Shouldn't be needed anymore now that the built-in setting covers every platform/app:

• Requiring a post flair: New Reddit - Mod Tools > Content controls > enable "Require post flair" under "Post flair"

• Allowing users to flair their post: New Reddit - Mod Tools > Post flair > "Post flair settings" (at the top) > "Allow users to assign their own" (note that this doesn't make flairs editable for users, flairs are only editable by mods by default and it can only be changed per flair)

Clearing the modqueue and modmail

For when you become a mod of an existing subreddit that has many items in the modqueue or non-archived modmails

• For modmail you can also use the checkbox next to the compose icon (blue circle with a plus sign). Scroll the page down as many times as needed and then tick that checkbox and click Archive.

• For modqueue you can also use r/toolbox and r/Enhancement:

  • Enable "Never Ending Reddit" in RES if it isn't already: open the settings and search for Never Ending Reddit and enable Auto Load

  • Through old Reddit go to the modqueue and scroll down to load as many items as necessary.

  • Click on the checkbox in the top left of the top bar (next to Invert) then click on "remove selected" at the top

Dealing with reported comments

Auto-remove all reported comments once the post is removed / Re-approve comments that get reported several times after they're approved by a mod (but not if they get edited in the meantime)

Subreddit statistics

Post flair usage, most active users, top posts, subscriber growth, and more

User flair progression/score system

Tracks each user's participation level on the subreddit.

Can also be done through AutoMod, at least partially.

Also, might be possible to do with ContextModBot (currently not taking new subreddits).

Flair badge for "X days" since...

badgebot allows people to track the number of days since they quit something (drinking/porn/etc.).

After the bot is added as a mod the users can send the bot a DM ( https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=badgebot&subject=SubredditName) with the subreddit's name as the subject and the quitting date in the body in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Example instructions from r/stopdrinking (the last part of the post)

Anti-brigading

Anti-harassment of your subreddit by the users of another. Auto-ban users who participate in specific subreddits - "scans content posted to harassing subreddits on your list and bans producers of that content from your community".

To prevent the bots from banning users (and instead only remove their content), don't give the bots the "Manage Users" permission (for SafestBot you can also set the "ban" setting to "false"). Additionally you can also check the bot from the next section.

Moderate based on a user's history

Anti self-promotion/link spam, and more

Strikes system

A standardized system that would apply "Points" against offending users

Ban time increment

A bot that increases the ban time, based on the number of previous bans

Auto-remove content from a banned user

"removes all recent comments and submissions from a user when you ban them"

https://www.reddit.com/user/I_Am_A_Real_Bot/comments/zzzkpz/beep_boop_when_you_ban_a_user_i_remove_all_of/

Locking posts

Locking posts after X amount of time

Content filtered by Reddit's spam filter

Allow you to receive a modmail about the removed content

Bot only for posts, can auto-approve the content: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bot/comments/10zc38c/introducing_uredditspamfilterbot_a_bot_to_help/

Script that requires hosting: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/11c2jkz/how_to_automatically_get_redditremoved_content/

Discord notification for modmail

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bot/comments/yqmcrs/introducing_modmailbot/ (requires hosting)

Alerts about subreddit mentions

Get a notification when your subreddit is mentioned somewhere on Reddit (only in comments)

You can also check out https://redditcomber.com/

Requires comment from OP within a timeframe

(aka Submission Statement)

Pinned comment with important replies

Stickies a comment with an updating list of comments from specific pre-configured users in the thread (mods/company representatives/top users/etc.)

User-pinned comment

Allows OP to pin a comment on their own post by having the bot quote the comment and sticky its own comment

Public mod log

Make your subreddit's mod log (or part of it) public

Access toolbox usernotes without the addon

Allows you to read and write toolbox usernotes through mobile (or any platform)

Profanity/hate speech

YouTube channel / Twitter feed

Publishing new videos from specific YouTube channels / having an updating sidebar feed of tweets from a specific account

Posting from RSS feeds

Syncing sidebars

Syncing the sidebar between old reddit and new reddit

Syncing AutoMod rules

https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/comments/10ueqt7/update_i_wrote_a_script_to_let_you_sync_your/

Messaging your mod team

In cases where you need to contact all of the mods of a specific sub you mod and you want to make sure they get the message you can use this bot to send it

Comments bypassing a filter

Tracks chains of single letter comments to see if they add up to a banned word

Managing chat

Changing an old post flair to a new one

https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/rw3pfq/post_flairs_change_old_flair_name_to_new_flair_id/ (requires hosting)

old flair/new flair

AEO/Admin Removals Report

NSFW images tagging/removal

Auto-tag or remove NSFW images based on the type of content. The tagging function might not be needed now due to Reddit's auto-tagger

Anti OnlyFans spam

Block crossposts from porn spam subs

OCR images/Anti Leakgirls spam

Allow you to check for text inside images

Anti affiliate links

Fixing links with backslashes

Links with escaped underscores ( _) due to Markdown

Spoiler tag added to NSFW tag

Dealing with a bug that causes some posts that get posted as NSFW to get a spoiler tag added to them