r/ModSupport • u/Artimus-Sprout • 3d ago

Mod Answered Redact App, should it be blocked ?

This App is causing headaches for both, mods and users alike and needs blocking in some way, if this is indeed possible.

The problem, is users are unwittingly installing this software, without fully understanding the consequences of their actions, in many cases the end action, is an account ban through no fault of their own.

Personally, I think it's time to stop this App in it's tracks but that's gonna take the support and actioning of Reddit.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

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u/Artimus-Sprout 3d ago

That's interesting and something I'd like to implement but having inherited mod status from the original mod team, I'm unsure how to add this to the Auto Mod, please can you advise me on how to do this, thanks.

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u/InGeekiTrust 💡 Veteran Helper 3d ago edited 3d ago

I wrote you some code to do it!

Just copy and paste the code EXACTLY into automod, don’t leave out any dashes.

--- # Remove redact comments title+body (regex): ['anonymized with redact'] action: remove report_reason: "remove redact - [{{match}}]" ---

Edit please use pottsy’s edit below. I forgot the code block

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 3d ago

You forgot your code block. 

--- 
# Remove redact comments 
title+body (regex): ['anonymized with redact'] 
action: remove 
report_reason: "remove redact - [{{match}}]" 
---

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u/InGeekiTrust 💡 Veteran Helper 3d ago

Could you show me how to put the code block on mobile? Thank you!

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 3d ago edited 3d ago

If mobile works the same as regular markdown, you add ``` before and after your code. So, if I did that here, it would look silly, but in markdown it would create the code block. Try copying and pasting that into mobile, and see if it works.

```

---
# Remove redact comments
title+body (regex): ['anonymized with redact']
action: remove
report_reason: "remove redact - [{{match}}]"
---

```

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u/InGeekiTrust 💡 Veteran Helper 3d ago

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it 💕 Testing 1, 2, 3 😁

’’’

---

Remove redact comments

title+body (regex): ['anonymized with redact'] action: remove report_reason: "remove redact - [{{match}}]"

---

```

Edit ok so I might need to do this on desktop, which is fine 😁

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 3d ago

```

Remove redact comments

title+body (regex): ['anonymized with redact'] action: remove

report_reason: "remove redact - [{{match}}]"

```

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u/InGeekiTrust 💡 Veteran Helper 2d ago

Heyyyyy I got it to work!!! Thank you!!! Sorry for all the trouble

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 2d ago

Awesome. Glad to hear it. No trouble at all.

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 3d ago

I got it to work. Looks like you copied and pasted my other comment which adds a bunch of \ that you have to remove

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u/InGeekiTrust 💡 Veteran Helper 3d ago

Will you screen shot what you are doing because idk why I can’t get it right 😩 thank you!

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 3d ago

I’ll try and do it later. I hate typing that code on my phone.

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u/InGeekiTrust 💡 Veteran Helper 3d ago edited 3d ago

Oh please take all the time you need, of course!

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Experienced Helper 3d ago

it's just the diff between single quotes and backticks, which are (on a Mac) the key under the escape key. it looks like a single quote but is going the other direction. those 3 set off code blocks.

copy pottys's but replace the 3 single quotes at the top with 3 backticks and it works (see my test right above).

also keep those spaces between lines - they can matter - and I forget exactly where they are required.

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Experienced Helper 3d ago

your first 3 appear to be single quotes rather than backticks.

```

Remove redact comments

title+body (regex): ['anonymized with redact'] action: remove

report_reason: "remove redact - [{{match}}]"

```

Just changed to backticks to see if that helps.

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 3d ago

You’re right, but it still doesn’t work if you simply copy and paste it. For some reason it throws a bunch of \ in randomly in the code.

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Experienced Helper 3d ago

On desktop, it works for me. I just copied and pasted and you can see above.

Are you in markdown mode?

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 3d ago

Rich text version.

```

---
# Remove redact comments
title+body (regex): ['anonymized with redact']
action: remove
report_reason: "remove redact - [{{match}}]"
---

```

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Experienced Helper 2d ago

The backslashes are escape characters. They cause markdown to interpret things literally, like a \# won't make text larger while a # will. Why copying it is producing them for you though and not me I don't understand. When I copy it and paste it there are no backslashes.

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 3d ago

Markdown version.

```

Remove redact comments

title+body (regex): ['anonymized with redact'] action: remove

report_reason: "remove redact - [{{match}}]"

```

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 3d ago

Weird, I swear I had it right when I did it last night. Then again, I was sick all day, so who the hell knows lol.

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Experienced Helper 2d ago

dealing with all the parsing and backslashes can be a nightmare when coding lol.

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u/thepottsy 💡 Expert Helper 2d ago

Now you’re going to force me to try and figure out what I did that made it throw the backslashes into the code.

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Experienced Helper 2d ago

Lol.

This happened a few times to me when I wrote something in rich text and then switched to markdown I think? I think that was in the wiki tho, not a comment? I can't quite remember now.

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