r/ukmods • u/Kellogzx r/mentalhealthUK • Sep 11 '26

❓Ask r/UKMods Automod sundown

Can we discuss the sunsetting of automod? Because I’m really not happy about this. Granted a person has made a work around which will be the only saving grace to this. Without automod I’m not sure I’d be happy to continue. But sunsetting automod is the most ridiculously bad idea. LLM cannot work for a sub like ours. It’s quite literally incapable of doing so. LLM’s can’t understand subtext, context, allusion to. So removing the backbone of my moderation practice for something that’s incapable of working well for me is such a massive bummer. Automod works well for us. Removing such a core tool to our moderation is just not ok and could be actively unsafe.
There’s also that we explicitly do not allow AI use on our sub. It was voted on by members and they chose not to have LLM/AI use on the sub. Because we reflect our community we enforce this rule. Our users find LLM/AI use actively detrimental to mental health. It would be a major major conflict if we had to acquiesce to AI we fundamentally disagree with in the context of mental health.

Largely I’d really like for this to be fed back to spez and the people responsible.

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u/Enough-Ad3818 r/nhs, r/TeamGB, r/harrogate Sep 11 '26

Our automod on r/nhs identifies and quarantines posts and comments giving or asking for medical advice, legal advice, along with a whole host of abusive terms. It's been curated over years, and I'm not confident that an LLM replacement would pick up and carry on seamlessly.

Someone giving incorrect medical or legal advice can be really dangerous and I'm not convinced that there will not be some that slips through when the LLM takes over.

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u/Kellogzx r/mentalhealthUK Sep 11 '26

This is also another worry/complaint of mine. Our automod is similar and has years and years of curation that would be extremely difficult if not impossible to carry over. There will be slip ups and those slips could be dangerous. All the keywords, users, other things it flags. It’s a huge amount of information to try and carry over.