Hear ye hear ye, Based Count folks, the @AutoMod bot developed by yours truly is now active on the instance!

Before you ask: no, it has no bullshit rules to discriminate users based on their account age, karma or anything like that. This bot moderates content, not people. While it has multiple features, the main one is the automated removal of posts and comments according to custom rules set by community moderators.

If you’re a user this doesn’t really affect you, I just wanted to put a PSA out there. If you’re a mod in one of our communities and want me to add the AutoMod to yours, feel free to ask.

Here are the repository and documentation for the nerds out there that do care about this.

And of course if you are not a moderator but would like to create a community on our instance you can head over to our pinned thread in the !announcements@lemmy.basedcount.com community and submit your proposal.

  • Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.comOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well the bot has to be configured by a mod first and no one had configured theirs yet. I have added a dummy rule just to test it.

    From now on it is forbidden to talk about “pizza”. Only moderators (me hehe) are still allowed to say the P word. Any comment containing such word will be swiftly removed.

    Try posting a comment with the word “pizza” in it, it should get auto removed. Also:

    does it delete reposts

    Alas no. It would be pretty complicated to write such a feature (would require a 3rd party service to detect what is and isn’t a repost) and we haven’t really had any problems with reposts for now.
    The biggest thing the AutoMod does is removing stuff based on their content, according to rules set by mods. Othe features are:

    • giving mods a command to lock and pin posts (so they can do that even from their phones)
    • sending me and the other admins a discord ping any time someone submits an application to join the instance, so we don’t have people waiting 10+ hours for me to log in and notice the notification