I recently posted the following item on this website un der Xiaomi: https://lemdro.id/post/lemdro.id/12693729
Prior to posting here, I had tried to post the same item in the Xiaomi subreddit on Reddit.
My posting was removed instantaneously. I mean so fast that it could not have been done by a human.
I was presented with the follwing message:
*Sorry u/dromani, your post has been automatically removed.
Your account is brand new or has low karma, and our subreddit experiences a lot of spam from new accounts or help vampires which think we’re an Official support outlet for Xiaomi (which we’re not). As such, we remove submissions from these accounts to prevent it.
IF YOU STILL HAVEN’T READ THE ABOVE LINK ABOUT BEING A HELP VAMPIRE*
https://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires
IGNORE THE MESSAGE BELOW TO MODMAIL US, AS THEY GET IGNORED.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.*
I invite readers to read my post and explain to me how it could possibly be construed as me being a “help vampire”, to use the term presumable coined by the mods?
And regarding the last two sentences of the rejection message:
"IGNORE THE MESSAGE BELOW TO MODMAIL US, AS THEY GET IGNORED.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.*
The second sentnece presumably comes from Reddit as a way to provide a path to appeal a mod decision. But the mod, in all caps, essentially tells me “don’t bother contacting me, as I will ignore you anyways”. This seems to me contrary to what Reddit policy intended with their statement about cpntacting mods if I have questions or concerns.
This all smaks to me as abuse of authority by a petty dicator mod making rules that are in violation of Reddit intended policy.
Hence my question - Who moderates the mods on reddit?
Thank you for the thorough explanation. A couple of points (and maybe I am still not understanding correctly?).
I need karma to be able to post. I get karma by posting. Autobots prevent me from posting. Seems like a Catch-22 situation?
I have been able to post successfully in other subreddits. Xiaomi is the one subreddit where my posts are always rejected. So different autobot rules for different subreddits?
I am trying to be a positive contributor to the community, but reddit won’t let me in!
It can be a difficult thing for an entirely new reddit user. But not every sub applies those restrictions. The key is to find them. With things the way they are now, it’s impossible for me to say much about which ones because things changed so much. But there used to be “free karma” subs.
And you’ll usually be able to find meme subs that don’t karma or age filter because they don’t care about reposts or bots. But you can’t spam posts, or you’ll end up running into trouble with reddit itself sometimes, if you trip their metrics that are supposed to detect bots (which aren’t clear as to the criteria).
It is a pain in the ass lol.
And yeah, it’s different rules for different subs. And, since the automod is very customizable, but the skill with it varies, the end results can be weird.
The account age limit is good though, and works in favor of new users because it gives them time to lurk and pick up the basics of what not to do, and get a feel for the culture of the sub and reddit in general, which (in theory) reduces the chances of getting banned for simple or stupid mistakes made from just jumping in blindly.
The karma limit should do the same thing, but with the kind of subs that are there to build karma, it tends to end up with noobs not actually learning much.