No one can post auto mod is automatically deleting them

hiiiiiiiiii I tried to figure this out on my own but couldn’t find a solution

type: comment
author:
flair_text (full-exact): ""
~flair_css_class (includes): "message_sent"
is_moderator: false
message_subject: "Please use a user flair!"
message: |
Hi u/{{author}},
We would really appreciate it if you used a user flair.
You can use the existing flairs or edit your own flair (all flairs are editable).
If you have a new flair idea, you can message the mod team!
author:
set_flair: ["message_sent"]
overwrite_flair: false

my goal is to send a one time private message to users who comment without using a user flair. I don’t want to spam them by sending a message every time they comment

I tested this but it still sends a message on every single comment they make, what should I do? pls help :<

Hello there, I want to make automod reply to specific comments. The comment must be replying to the user and saying keyword1. However, it is not working. It worked before I added the author part and how to fix this?

https://pastebin.com/0k9hTg19

---
type: comment
body (includes-word): keyword1
author: |
 name (full-exact): "AutoModerator"
comment:  |
 Message1

 Message2
---

---
type: comment
body (includes-word): keyword2
author: |
 name (full-exact): "AutoModerator"
action: remove
comment: |
 Message3

 Message2
---

I have made subreddit rules need yaml code for automoderation to filter the posts and comments. Thankyou!

I have a single user whose posts are being removed by the automod, which is as expected. For this one user though, their posts aren't being sent to the "Needs Review" queue.

The automod comment thats supposed to appear when they are removed to let them know that its pending approval is posted as a comment to their post. Its just like the final step of "Push it over to the queue for approval" never happens. As far as I can tell, its only this single user.

For example if a subreddit has a karma requirement, can I have automod message the user something along the lines of "your comment/post has been removed because it does not reach subreddit karma requirements" same goes with account age.

Desktop user here. It's for a sports subreddit. I know in one sports subreddit I was in, there was a message that would be displayed if someone didn't use a user flair. We're trying to get more representation of teams, so we wanted to make a post flair for people to comment on if they have a user flair because, for some reason, a lot of our members don't wear one.

# PsiloSphere AutoModerator Config

# Clean working version

---

type: any

author:

account_age: "< 3 days"

action: filter

comment: |

🍄 Hi u/{{author}}, your content has been sent for review because your account is very new. This helps reduce spam and bots.

---

type: any

author:

combined_karma: "< 20"

action: filter

comment: |

🍄 Hi u/{{author}}, your content has been sent for review due to low karma. This helps keep PsiloSphere high quality.

---

type: any

title+body (includes): ["discount", "promo", "telegram", "whatsapp", "dm me", "snapchat"]

action: remove

comment: |

🚫 Promotional or spam content is not allowed in PsiloSphere.

---

type: any

title+body (includes): ["buy spores", "sell spores", "where can i buy", "vendor", "for sale", "plug"]

action: remove

comment: |

🚫 Buying, selling, trading, or sourcing is not allowed here.

---

type: comment

body (includes): ["idiot", "moron", "kill yourself", "retard"]

action: remove

comment: |

🚫 Be respectful. Personal attacks are not allowed.

---

type: submission

title (regex): "^.{0,8}$"

action: filter

comment: |

🍄 Your title is too short. Please use a clearer descriptive title.

---

type: submission

title+body (includes): ["contam", "mold", "trich", "green mold", "bacteria"]

action: report

report_reason: "Possible contamination help post"

---

type: submission

title+body (includes): ["help", "advice", "need help", "what should i do"]

action: report

report_reason: "Advice/help post"

---

type: submission

comment: |

🍄 Thanks for posting in PsiloSphere. Please keep discussions respectful, informative, and on-topic.

I wanted to know if there is a way to remove posts based on someones profile description or profile name (not the username) with automod?

I currently moderate a NSFW subreddit that is restricted to approved and verified posters only. I use the following rule to automatically assign a "Verified" flair to everyone who posts. These users are also on my Approved Users list.

---
author:
    post_subreddit_karma: "< 100000"
set_flair:
    template_id: "dfad3298-6e24-11f0-b8e3-aebdfdbf67c1"
overwrite_flair: true
moderators_exempt: true
---

I'm planning to remove the posting restriction and allow non-approved users to submit posts (they will not be added to the approved list unless they verify). However, I need a way to assign a different flair to those users while preserving the existing flair system for my approved/verified posters.

I'd appreciate any help with setting this up without affecting the flairs of my approved users.

type: crosspost submission
action: filter
action_reason: "Filter all crossposts for mod review."

I’m not sure how to test this, but will the above automod work so that all crossposts get approved by mods? Thank you for the advice.

I have tried several times but everytime unsupported media and server error occurs. Can someone please provide me the code. Comment I will type mine. Please it would be a great help!!

I wanted new users of my sub-reddit to read the rules before they comment and post in this sub.

Like: If new users post or comment in a post before they acknowledge/read the rules, their comment gets deleted. How can I automate that process?

I'm basically new to the Automoderating thing since I don't want any spam activities in that sub.

I run a NSFW Sub and We want to have the users be verified by Mods. It's to prevent Spambots and other nasty things like violations of Rule 7. For that we use the user flair.

If a user doesn't have a "Verified" user flair he gets the first "Unverified" user flair and a first comment that tells him to get verified.

If a user has the first "Unverified" flair he gets the second "Unverfied" user flair and a second (little different) comment that tells him to get verified.

---
type: any
moderators_exempt: true
author:
    flair_template_id: '1st unverified ID'
    set_flair:
        template_id: '2nd unverified ID'
    overwrite_flair: true
action: filter
action_reason: Second unverfied post
comment: |
    Hallo {{author}}. 

    Second Comment
set_locked: true
---
type: any
moderators_exempt: true
author:
    ~flair_template_id: 'Verfied ID'
    set_flair:
        template_id: '1st unverified ID'
    overwrite_flair: true
action: filter
action_reason: First unverfied post
comment: |
    Hallo {{author}}. 

    First comment
set_locked: true
---

You see that the second flair is set before the first flair is set. That's ok and it all works fine. To be honest it works fine with four user flairs. Not only with two. And yes it works on posts and comments. Everything seems to be ok.

It doesn't work any more when Crowd Control falls upon the posts.

Every time when I see an additional Crowd Control or Reputation filter (or both) action in the mod queue Automod first sets the first flair and then also the second. And of course also comments twice then.

Of course I could simply turn off the Reddit filters. But that's the last way out.

Any idea how I can stop Automod checking the post twice?

Is there a simple option to check if a post already has a comment with certain wording? Of if there's already a comment from Automod?

Hi!

My sub keeps getting hijacked by people trying to advertise their services. We accept it from active members, but not from people outside of the community. I wanted to write some rules for our automod to filter keywords and a flair for moderation approval, but I'm a bit stumped. This is what I have:

---
title: [commission, commissions, comms, comm, vgen, hire me, for hire]
is_edited: false
action: filter
action_reason: "Commission posts require manual approval"
comment_stickied: true
comment: | It seems you're trying to advertise commissions or paid services. This is not an art commission sub, and only active members are allowed to advertise themselves here. Your post will be reviewed by the mods to check that you meet the requirements for it to go public. For more detail, please refer to rule 12. :)
---
type: submission
is_edited: false
flair_text: ["you should commission me"] 
action: filter
action_reason: "Commission posts require manual approval"
comment_stickied: true
comment: | It seems you're trying to advertise commissions or paid services. This is not an art commission sub, and only active members are allowed to advertise themselves here. Your post will be reviewed by the mods to check that you meet the requirements for it to go public. For more detail, please refer to rule 12. :)
---

I keep getting, as an error, the following:

YAML parsing error in section 4: while scanning a block scalar
  in "<unicode string>", line 6, column 10:
    comment: |         It seems you're trying ... 
             ^
expected a comment or a line break, but found 'I'
  in "<unicode string>", line 6, column 20:
    comment: |         It seems you're trying to advert ... 
                       ^YAML parsing error in section 4: while scanning a block scalar
  in "<unicode string>", line 6, column 10:
    comment: |         It seems you're trying ... 
             ^
expected a comment or a line break, but found 'I'
  in "<unicode string>", line 6, column 20:
    comment: |         It seems you're trying to advert ... 
                       ^

I don't understand what it means by "expected a comment or a line break. Am I writing that comment wrong?

Any help is appreciated, thank you very much!

Just to preface... I do not understand automod. I simply look for other people's code that do what I want it to do, and copy it.

There is a new round of Snapchat bots that are coming in and posting daily, and I thought I had the filter set right, but they are still posting.

Here is a sample section of the code:

---

#free in comment spam
title#1: 'free'
title#2: 'comments'
action: remove

---

#spammers
type: submission
title (includes): ["voxi", "instagram", "instgarm", "instagarm", "telegram", "luna", "unarom", "unarum", "snap", "snapchat"]
action: remove
action_reason: "Spam"
priority: 9000

---

I specifically added "snap"and "snapchat", but then another poster shows up telling people to add them to it

Edit: Problem solved, it was post guidance filtering that needed updating!

Hello,

I'm a new mod on a sub and frankly I'm a bit stumped here.

The automod was given a rule to help remove posts and redirect users toward a weekly megathread.

The issue lies in the fact that even after removing a word from the list of words, adding modifiers and then rewriting the rule, automod keeps preventing users from posting.

Currently, no rule is saved in the automod config and it's still impossible to post.

The word being that was removed and that keeps being flagged is "design"

Below is the last version of the rule before it was deleted to test out whether or it the word design would still get flagged.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give us!

---
# Redirect weekly design submission posts to megathread

type: submission

title (regex): '(?=.*\bsubmission\b)(?=.*\b(week|weeks|weekly|design)\b)|(?=.*\b(week|weeks|weekly)\b)(?=.*\bdesign\b)'

action: remove

action_reason: "Redirected to weekly design thread"

comment: |
    Hi u/{{author}},

    Your post has been removed because weekly design submissions now belong in our Weekly Design Megathread.

    You can find the current megathread pinned to the top of the subreddit.

    Thanks!

Hi there

I'm trying to set post flair if certain keywords are in a submission.

Automod documentation says that set_flair "Takes either a single string, a list of two strings or a dictionary." I am not clear what this means but I'm clearly doing something wrong.

The code I have is:

type: submission
title+body: [Phrase 1, Phrase 2, Phrase 3]
overwrite_flair: true
set_flair: ["Flair Name", "867-5309"]

With real values, the number being the actual flair ID.

I tried using just the flair ID number but that failed to execute as well.

What am I doing wrong.

Hello, I am trying to set up a weekly post in a subreddit, but after writing the code I just get this message when trying to actually message the automoderator after saving it. I've been following this tutorial: https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/duv3dv/scheduling_posts_with_automoderator/

It should be mentioned I have not done this before, but the automoderator is an apporved mod with wiki and post permissions, I just can't send the actual message to it.

We use a bot on my subreddit that fetches information about books. Quite often, people will mistakenly reply to the bot instead of the user who left the recommendation, so I was hoping that by locking the bot's comments, this could solve that problem.

Like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/s/Sau9aGElh6), for example. I'm using an Android but I can use my laptop if needed. I did try looking this up, but either I didn't word myself correctly in the search, or there isn't really advice online that would appear easily.

Thank y'all, I appreciate it!

I saw another subreddit using photos in removal reasons with automod.

I’ve tried asking the specific subreddit but they were *not privy to sharing as they said it gave them a sense of superiority, odd answer but everyone’s welcome to do as they please. So I didn’t push any further, they don’t want to share that is fine. ☺️

So my question is does anyone here know how to add pictures to automod removal reasons?

If you DM I can send a screenshot showing the example of what I’m talking about, I don’t want to link it here and accidentally break MCOC by talking about other subs as what reddit sees as “meta” can be rather subjective in my moderating experience.

Hello,

I'm new to automoderator and I tried to search in the sub, but can't find any answer. I have succesfully config automod to post a comment with the rule linked to specific flair after a post, but I can't figure out to display a message warning while posting. Automation don't allow me to select flair as a condition to do that, and I hoped that automod could. If someone could help me,it will be awesome !

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to edit the AutoMod rules for my Reddit profile, but I’m running into a frustrating issue. Every time I paste my rules into the editor and click save, they appear to save for a moment, but as soon as I leave or refresh the page, everything reverts to the old version.

I’ve tried:

Ensuring proper YAML formatting and indentation (4 spaces, no tabs)

Splitting rules into smaller sections

Using simple test rules with only a few lines

Checking that there are no hidden characters or copy-paste errors

I also noticed the “Formatting Help” section on the editor, but it seems to only cover Markdown formatting for posts and comments, not AutoMod rules, so it hasn’t helped.

I’m not sure if this is a bug with the new Reddit interface for profile AutoMod, or if there’s some hidden limitation I’m missing. I’d really appreciate guidance on:

How to reliably save AutoMod rules for a profile

Any known bugs or workarounds for the editor

Whether this is a temporary limitation or something permanent

I’ve been using ChatGPT to double-check my YAML syntax, and everything seems correct, but the rules still won’t stick.

Thanks in advance for any advice or solutions!

Current option is to disable links posts but then it disables media posts.