A moderation bot removed my comment twice in two days, same four-word reason both times
r/SaaS's AutoModerator removed two of my comments in two days. Same four words both times: "Low-Effort/AI content is auto-removed." Different comments, different threads, one of them a direct technical answer with specific numbers in it.
The label is a category, not a reason. It doesn't say which sentence tripped it, whether it was structure, phrasing, length, or something else entirely. So there's nothing concrete to fix before the next comment. I could write in a completely different style and still not know if that's what mattered, or if it was luck either way.
This isn't only a Reddit problem. Most of us deal with some version of this daily: email lands in spam with no line-item reason, a payment gets flagged as risky with no specifics, a post gets suppressed and the only feedback is that it happened. A binary outcome with a generic label standing in for the actual signal.
For anyone who has actually gotten one of these overturned, or figured out the real trigger behind a generic flag: was there ever a real signal buried under the message, or did you just have to guess and iterate?
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Abdullah, I have a live example of exactly this right here on PH. Two of my own threads got rejected within about a minute of submitting, both with the identical generic line about forum guidelines. No indication of which line or which rule tripped it. One was a plain question with no links. The other had three links in a self promotion format. Opposite content profiles, same instant rejection.
What convinced me it was not really about the copy is that comments from the same account post fine and stay up. So whatever is doing the flagging is reading account history more than the specific text. I have not managed to get one overturned. There is no channel to ask what actually failed, only the same boilerplate line back.
My guess, unproven: these generic flags are often account trust thresholds wearing a content moderation label. Easier to build a system that says content issue than one that admits it does not trust the account yet. Doesn't fix your next comment. Does mean rewriting the comment on its own probably won't either.
@oshylabs I had similar experience with both threads and comments. Some go through, some don't and I haven't find the reason behind either. Not sure how this can be fixed.