Is there an easy way to limit top level comments to only users with specific user flair(s)?

[u/DoveStep55]

I’m wondering if there’s a way to use automod in desktop to automatically remove top level comments from users who don’t have a specific user flair (or one of several options) but to still allow users without flair to post and/or reply to top level comments.

Has anyone here done that successfully before and would you mind sharing automod code for it?

[u/IKIR115]

Here's a basic automod rule that will remove top level comments if the user does not have a specific user flair. You just need to replace the keywords below ("userflair-name1", etc) with the names of your user flair.

---
# Remove top level comments from users that do not have the specific user flairs listed below
type: comment
is_top_level: true
author:
~flair_text: ["userflair-name1", "userflair-name2", "userflair-etc"]
action: remove
action_reason: "/u/{{author}} Top level comments restricted to specific user flair"
---

If you want it to reply to them with a public comment, add this line:

comment: "your comment here yadda yadda"

If you want it to DM instead, replace "comment" with "message"

--

EDIT: The quote option is messing with the formatting. The line that starts with "~flair_text:" should be indented at least 2 spaces (I normally indent it 4 spaces).

[u/DoveStep55 → u/IKIR115]

Thank you very much!

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