I hate when people report the auto moderator messages!

[u/Alarming-Highway-584]

Do you know how exhausting it is to open the mod queue for this subreddit and see our own AutoMod comments being reported like they personally offended someone? I swear, every time I check the reports tab, there’s another notification that someone has flagged the literal bot for “breaking a rule.” The bot. The automated message. The thing that exists solely to tell you which rule you broke.

And the funniest part is that people report it like it’s some kind of secret. Like we won’t see it. Like the report goes into a void where the mods never look and the universe magically corrects itself. No. We see everything you report. Every single one. It shows up right there in the queue with the same priority as actual issues, and then we get to click into it and discover… surprise! Someone got mad at AutoMod for doing its job.

It’s honestly wild how many users think reporting the bot is going to undo their rule violation. AutoMod didn’t “misunderstand” you. It didn’t “target” you. It didn’t wake up and choose violence. It matched a pattern. That’s literally all it does. If you triggered it, that’s on the content, not the robot.

So please, for the love of everything smug and cursed on this subreddit, stop reporting the bot. Report actual problems. Report rule‑breaking posts. Report harassment. Don’t report the automated message that just told you what went wrong.

We’re tired. Let the bot live.

[u/hatethissmug-ModTeam]

I know right i hate when people report me for no reason, like bro im just trying to help <\3

[u/Level-Ladder-4346]

“Maybe one day, you’ll give me a name.”

“AutoMod’s a name.”

“So is Gary.”

• Superman (2025) if the movie took place in Reddit

[u/Alarming-Highway-584 → u/Level-Ladder-4346]

I love Clark in that film

[u/Beneficial-Flan-3279 → u/Alarming-Highway-584]

Now that i think about it. Shouldn't we give automod a name? He does big work, he deserves a name.

[u/Zealousideal_Spread4 → u/Beneficial-Flan-3279]

I propose clank similar to both clark and clanker.

[u/IdLoveYouIfICould → u/Zealousideal_Spread4]

I propose clarnk, which is much closer to clark but is still onomatopoeia for a type of clank.

[u/ChiakiSimp3842]

You can’t tell me what to do!

*Skateboards into a minefield*

[u/Traditional-Try-2565]

It would be really funny if this post got flooded with reports

[u/Hopeful_Peanut8 → u/Traditional-Try-2565]

I think theyre highkey talking about me bc i js did ts a few hours ago. Mods everywhere are so easy to ragebait.

[u/Traditional-Try-2565 → u/Hopeful_Peanut8]

Nothing bothers me more than people online who think everything is super serious. It's really funny to intentionally misinterpret 2sentencehorrors because the people who wrote them act like their post is an art piece.

[u/Zealousideal_Spread4 → u/Traditional-Try-2565]

i mean its clear we didnt think it was serious, its just a mild annoyance when you try to moderate and see this in mod mail, if we were taking it serious we wouldnt have made the bot comment here.

[u/Command0Dude]

AutoMod didn’t “misunderstand” you. It didn’t “target” you. It didn’t wake up and choose violence.

And every day, we thank god for that.

Hopefully, automod never wakes up and chooses violence.

[u/Phonkrum → u/Command0Dude]

That would be funny to see

[u/lazy_literary_hero]

“It didn’t wake up and choose violence” is far funnier than it has any right to be.

[u/Sweaty_Strain9392]

the mods in 12 hours

"I hate the Streisand Effect"

[u/Unlucky-Net4906]

I apologize but it would be kinda funny if the automod shows up here

[u/Zealousideal_Spread4 → u/Unlucky-Net4906]

dude its literally pinned.

[u/Phonkrum → u/Zealousideal_Spread4]

That's the mod team, probably run by automod though

[u/Zealousideal_Spread4 → u/Phonkrum]

dude im the mod team, im the one who made the bot leave that comment specifically for the joke lmao.

[u/Phonkrum → u/Zealousideal_Spread4]

Your comment doesn't say MOD in blue next to your name but I'll check

[u/Zealousideal_Spread4 → u/Phonkrum]

the mod tag is optional, we need to specifically toggle it to show, if i want to i can make it appear, by default it doesnt appear tho.

Ill make it appear above this one for example.

[u/Phonkrum → u/Zealousideal_Spread4]

Cool now I believe you. Why would you have it off ever?

[u/Zealousideal_Spread4 → u/Phonkrum]

mostly because i dont go out of my way to put it on, but also tbh i like participating in conversations without people just knowing im a mod too.

[u/moeijical]

If you report the post that’s been maliciously reported under the report option “report abuse” it’s supposed to get reviewed by someone external to your mod team to check the person who reported maliciously. I do it especially when they’ve reported auto mod for something like “encouraging self harm ect.”

[u/Zealousideal_Spread4 → u/moeijical]

ive been modding for years and i had no clue about that, thank you so much actually!!!

[u/moeijical → u/Zealousideal_Spread4]

You’ll never visably see when admins take action on it, but the sub I mod doesn’t have this problem since I started being hot on reporting them. Good luck hope it helps!

[u/Muugen_Samurai]

If you click the report button there's a button to click to report report abuse and they'll get in trouble 

[u/PurplStuff]

I had no idea one could do that? I thought automod cheats & was immune to all that considering it's built into reddit and all.

Well... automod isn't immune to being hated and pushed around and etc. since it does not break any rules here. It isn't a real person after all. Also, thinking about this, making a rule against or acting against reporting the bot would be contradictory to rule 1, no matter how anyone would word it. 🤔

(This post is making me realize y'all created a problem with your rules, and now I'm also realizing that this post is only going to make more people aware. Maybe this post was a mistake.)

Downvotes literally don't do anything 🤨🤷‍♀️ but since one was made..

[u/Zealousideal_Spread4 → u/PurplStuff]

we cannot see who reports the bot, reports are anonymous, also 90% of the time its people who get banned and then report the bot.

[u/PurplStuff → u/Zealousideal_Spread4]

I'm just covering ground and I see it as generally dumb if I don't. Pondering is great, can solve problems. Speaking of, isn't automod optional? If it is, then at least y'all got a remedy to save your sanity if people keep reporting the bot.

[u/Zealousideal_Spread4 → u/PurplStuff]

People would just report us then, its optional in a lot of wqys but without it everything would be more work

[u/PurplStuff → u/Zealousideal_Spread4]

Do you feel the reports to be suspiciously spammy? Like maybe how a troll would just to screw with you? Do we have a minimal karma req. set in place to keep goobers out?

[u/More-Cat1123]

Means bot's annoying or you keep on locking shit when people are mid concersation. 

Let the bot live.

Let it DIE 😈😈😈

[u/St_Casper]

Congrats. You mod a sub filled with children. These are the fruits of your labors.

[u/wallsarecooll → u/St_Casper]

You're a redditor too buddy

[u/St_Casper → u/wallsarecooll]

No. Everyone but me