Loosening Automod Rules - The Worst Idea Ever?

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This is how large the r/CryptoCurrency auto-moderator ruleset has grown.

Over the past 12 months, auto-moderator has performed 911,000 actions across thousands of users. Participating on r/CryptoCurrency has never been more difficult for new users and existing users alike.

Can we be a community if we can't communicate?

But how did we get here?

• Money makes people stupid, users were creating shilling campaigns.
• DOA votes were used to solve complicated problems and we created complicated rules.
• We even banned the memes...

Over time we shifted from the internet's largest free speech crypto forum to the yahoo front page of crypto news.

So here's the deal. We're reworking auto-mod and loosening the belt starting today.

We have some new tools to help us fight the AI content, the bot accounts, and the spam. Even Reddit has deployed new tools of their own that surpass auto-mod's detection capabilities.

As perpetrators evolve their methods, we'll have to evolve ours as well.

If you see something, report it. Our best defense most of all, is you.