Automatically report or remove comments from users based on their User Score, a metric quantifying their recent history in your subreddit.
https://developers.reddit.com/apps/user-scorer
- Minimal setup requiring zero knowledge about AutoModerator or coding
- Automatically action comments from users based on their recent history in your subreddit (i.e. their User Score)
- Moderator actions directly impact User Score
This app operates under the premise that frequently-actioned users are likely to have their future content removed. To quantify this dynamic, a user's recent comment history in the subreddit is used to assign a "User Score." This metric is determined by taking the last N comments from the user in the subreddit, identifying how many of those comments have been removed (R), and calculating the fraction of comments that were removed (R/N) as the User Score. Because an established comment history is necessary for this calculation, User Scores are not assigned until at least five comments have been tracked. Deleted comments are accounted for in this calculation, so users cannot purge their comments to avoid accountability.
The User Score metric ranges in value between 0 and 1 (inclusive). A User Score of 0.0 indicates that no recent comments by the user have been removed (i.e. a "good" user). A User Score of 1.0 indicates that all recent comments by the user have been removed (i.e. a "bad" user). The app installation settings let moderators enable automatic reporting and removal of comments based on User Score and the thresholds at which these actions occur.
Note: User Score is an unofficial metric created solely for this app and has no connection to official Reddit moderation metrics.
- Number of Comments: The maximum number of recent comments by a user to consider when calculating their User Score
- Minimum: 5 (User Scores are not assigned until at least five comments have been tracked)
- Maximum: 1000
- Comment Reporting
- Enable Reporting: Toggle on/off the comment reporting feature
- Report Threshold: Report comments from users with a User Score greater than or equal to this value
- Minimum: 0.0 (No recent comments from the user have been removed)
- Maximum: 1.0 (All recent comments from the user have been removed)
- Should be less than the Remove Threshold
- Comment Removal
- Enable Removal: Toggle on/off the comment removal feature
- Remove Threshold: Remove comments from users with a User Score greater than or equal to this value
- Minimum: 0.0 (No recent comments from the user have been removed)
- Maximum: 1.0 (All recent comments from the user have been removed)
- Should be greater than the Report Threshold
- Ignored Moderators: Actions by these moderators are ignored and do not contribute to User Score
- Enter as a comma-separated list (e.g.
AutoModerator, comment-nuke) - Warning: Ignoring actions by certain moderators complicates the interpretation of the User Score metric. It will no longer represent a complete removed comment history for a user since certain removals will have been excluded from tracking. This may lead to inconsistencies between the numbers reported by User Scorer and the Moderation Log entries for the user.
- This setting does not retroactively modify existing User Scores and only applies to future moderator actions.
- Enter as a comma-separated list (e.g.
- Start with only Comment Reporting enabled in order to learn what thresholds are appropriate for your subreddit.
- Use a Report Threshold of
0to get reports on all new comments (from users with assigned User Scores). - Comments will still be tracked even if both Comment Reporting and Comment Removal are disabled.
Note: If any moderators are ignored in the installation settings, an asterisk will be appended to the removed comment count
This action appears under the moderator menu on comments in the subreddit. It displays the current User Score for the comment's author (if it has been assigned).
Note: If any moderators are ignored in the installation settings, an asterisk will be appended to the removed comment count
This action appears under the moderator menu for the subreddit. It generates a report summarizing the current User Scorer metrics, delivered via Modmail. Statistics are calculated excluding 0.0 scores since the majority of scored users will have no removed comments.
- The app currently relies upon the tracking of comments to establish a user's comment history (necessary to handle deletions). This means it is naive to any comments made prior to the installation of the app and that it will take some time to gather the minimum number of comments (5) necessary to assign a User Score.
- Uninstalling the app will delete all its data. This includes all tracked users and their respective comment histories. There is currently no way to backup (or restore) this data, so be careful when uninstalling.
- The app can currently only report and/or remove comments. Filtering content directly to the Mod Queue is a feature exclusive to AutoModerator.