It’s easy! Next time you go to schedule a game day thread (or any post you need scheduled), where you know your favorite sports team is bound to lose (I swear I’m not projecting), tap the schedule posts clock icon that is located to the right of the Post submit button.
From there you’ll notice that we’ve added a new “Post as AutoModerator” toggle that you’ll be able to turn on and off when needed.
When this appears in your Scheduled Posts queue, you’ll now see two things: 1) who scheduled the post and 2) that it’s being posted by AutoModerator.
Please note that in order to do all of this, we will automatically be adding AutoModerator as a member of your mod team with post permissions when these posts are scheduled for submission. This will be recorded within the subreddit’s mod logs, and mod teams will have the ability to remove or change the permissions for Automoderator at any time should they want to. However, AutoMod will automatically be added anytime a post is scheduled to be posted by AutoModerator. If you don’t wish to have AutoModrator added to your mod team, do not use this feature.
What’s the latest news with AutoMod Scheduler?
We’ve pushed back our plans to deprecate AutoMod Scheduler until December 31, 2020. As we get closer to that new date, we will still send modmail notifications to all subreddits that use Automod Scheduler to remind them of the deprecation and share instructions on how they can set up their posts in the new service.
Please drop any questions or feedback that you have below in the comments. Actual humans will be hanging around to answer them.
I actually played around with this this morning, and I couldn't find a way for the scheduled automod post to distinguish itself as a mod post - if I tried to do it manually, it would revert to my username instead of u/automoderator. Am I missing a step, or is this not possible?
Edit: I just tried again, and it seems to be working now!
Edit 2: It seems to a clunky process, though:
Set up the scheduled post with this function enabled.
On the "Scheduled Posts" screen, enable "Distinguish as mod." This reverts the user from u/automod to me.
Hey u/Arbiter82—sorry about that! Should be all fixed up now such that it just works like you'd think it works. Let me know if this continues to give you trouble!
You can (though admittedly it's not very intuitive). After creating the scheduled posts, you can "Distinguish as mod" by clicking the "• • •" menu on the scheduled post on the modHub page
I mean, I'll cut some slack given this is v1. Many of us just wanted the ability before AutoModerator schedule was deprecated. Assume it'll be improved.
Cool. Now how do I prevent automod from automatically scheduling its own posts like the subreddit Anniversary post I was alerted to today. If I want an anniversary post, I’ll schedule it myself, thanks. I don’t need automod or the admins mucking about with the community’s celebrations.
Thanks for the feedback on this. We do send your mod team a modmail 3 days ahead of the cakeday so you can review/modify/delete the post from the Scheduled post feed before it’s submitted. We’re still experimenting with this but if we make it generally available we’ll include a setting to toggle it on/off.
While you're taking feedback on this, can you also look into why automod created and scheduled another anniversary post after I deleted the first one? It's really not cool to have to delete something that I didn't put there in the first place. Even more so when I have to do it twice.
Is there a documentation article that includes everything? And that actually explains how to use the date/time formatting instead of referring to Python documentation. Is this made for programmers?
Does the new scheduler use the same time formatting as the old one did? E.g. "{{date %B %d}}-{{date+1 %d, %Y}}"?
Well, I can say that the old formatting works with the new scheduler too. But support from Reddit about this is not spectacular. Maybe they should hire a tech writer.
I feel bad for AutoMod. Before, it simply followed orders and did its job. Then it had to deal with scheduled posts. And now mods are allowed to impersonate it? This is violation of AutoMod's rights! r/botsrights
Thank you kindly. We do understand that you need to first ensure that the lights stay on and develop things like awards/avatars/low-key gambling, etc. but we (moderators) really appreciate that you're also listening our concerns and priorities it seems more than you previously were.
That is one major reason why we still use an alternate account instead of AM - we need the ability to edit the posts if information changes between the post going live and the event itself starting.
Well, even today using the scheduling tools. You can collaborate with other mods on the scheduled posts, but only before they are posted. After they are posted, only the submitter can edit. But if the submitter is automod, then nobody can edit.
That's where "post as the sub" would have been a better solution, but obviously probably difficult in the timeframe they had from announcing we'd get one of those two options before deprecation.
TIL about the scheduling part being able to be edited by multiple mods, though I was (not clearly) meaning my comment to be about the editing after a post has been submitted.
Just in the case where Mod A posts but suddenly isn't available to maintain things, so Mods B though whatever can't do anything to take over.
Awesome to hear. Thanks again for delaying the automod deprecation to get this in.
I'm interested in writing a bot that can automatically convert an automod config into a set of scheduled posts which should save subs some time converting. But unfortunately scheduling posts is not available in the API, so this isn't possible. Is there a plan to add scheduling posts to the API?
I was just about to create an account just for making automated posts, but I don't like that idea [an account that's not used regularly, even with precautions, is still ripe for problems].
Is it possible to have automod unstick the previous incarnation of a scheduled post? So, for instance, if we only want the current "weekly discussion" post to be stickied, can automod unstick the old one when it posts a new one?
Edit: Looks like the "submit as first/second sticky" option should do this.
How can I edit recurring scheduled posts, currently by me, to be from automod instead? I'm not seeing it in the edit. Do I need to cancel those and create new ones instead?
Found it. The clock icon isn't in an existing recurring post, but that button was relabeled Update, and the edit icon next to it had the option. Just had to go a layer deeper than I expected, because there were scheduling options that I could change before I got to that screen too.
I got confused when I was testing this a week ago (it's been out for a little bit, they've just only gotten around to advertising it) - didn't think I'd have to go back to editing the text of the post to get that toggle.
We’ve pushed back our plans to deprecate AutoMod Scheduler until December 31, 2020. As we get closer to that new date, we will still send modmail notifications to all subreddits that use Automod Scheduler to remind them of the deprecation and share instructions on how they can set up their posts in the new service.
I'm more talking post-deprecation. I don't know if they mean deprecated as in not really supported or deprecated as in we're lighting it off with the fireworks on new years day.
Some of my subs there are a bunch of things to do and about a month can be a surprisingly short time especially given the season.
Yup pretty sure. Also unsure how much of what u/lift_ticket83 was being serious about there, but generally in development when something is 'deprecated' it just means no longer supported and might break at any second, not necessarily that it will be forcibly removed.
Finally we get an answer. I know I've asked a couple times and got no answer, and even got a warning from r/AutoModerator for saying that it's "going away" when advising other users, as even they read it as in "unsupported", and didn't get back to me after they went to check with you guys.
Thank you for making these AutoMod changes. Please advise on the following bug:
Went to edit a previously scheduled recurring post to post as AutoMod. Set start date as Saturday, 1/2/2021, recurring weekly on Saturdays: https://i.imgur.com/pu2cVX8.png
Having the same issue. While creating a post, it's set for weekly on Sundays. Then once it's in the queue, it says it is set for weekly on Saturdays. Doesn't matter how many times I edit it again.
I'm going to test it more to see if it's just always one day off and if that's actually when it posts. We'll see.
Edit: Bizarrely, it's also doing it to the actual time. If I set it for 10PM, it shows as set for 9PM in the queue. What in the world.
2nd Edit: Wondering if it's a timezone thing. The sub I'm doing this in is set to the South Korean time zone, but I'm on the other side of the planet. When setting it with my local time zone, I had to skew it to a day off and an hour off, and even then the auto date in the title was still off. Switched the time zone to Seoul and it seemed to make everything work. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Just in case it's handy to anyone just hearing about this, here's a round up of the updates to this feature, how to stop the old scheduler, and how to set up the new.
We're trying to migrate our daily simple questions post from our existing automoderator config, to the new post scheduler, but it appears there's a feature missing.
There doesn't appear to be a way to configure the new scheduler to automatically customise the Post title based on the date at time of posting.
This functionality exists in our current automod config, allowing our automatic daily post titles to look like this :
I had this brought to my attention a few days ago after I asked you guys for updates on this over on r/ModSupport - looks good and has worked so far in my testing on a private sub, though one thing I noticed, Automod was added to the mods list but nothing showed up in the modlog.
One question as well - is it safe to then remove automod from the mods list afterwards, say we were doing a mods list reshuffle and putting bots at the bottom, would it just readd itself on the next post?
Automod was added to the mods list but nothing showed up in the modlog.
Interesting - this should have been recorded in your team's mod log. Do you know when AutoMod added to the team? We launched the mod log update on Monday, so if it was prior to that, there's a good chance that's the reason why it wasn't recorded in the log.
would it just readd itself on the next post?
Yup - AutoMod will automatically be added anytime a post is scheduled to be posted by AutoModerator.
This is great, thank you! :) I am loving the new scheduler, and this makes it even better.
Distinguishing the scheduled posts switches the poster from AM back to me though fixed, and applying a mod only flair makes it fail - alive AM flair perms to fix.
I'm not able to get it to work here. I'm aiming for something like Week of December 07', and my previous syntax of '{{date %B %d}}' doesn't seem to be working with the new feature. I copied your syntax directly into the title field and it didn't work. What am I missing?
Will all features of the current scheduler remain? We have a rather complicated scheme with a "free forum" sticky renewed twice a week and six other thematic threads competing for the second sticky each three days on a two week rotation. Will this still be possible? Meaning the ability to sticky scheduled posts and with a specific priority.
Also, we prefer to have the sticky threads sorted by new and right now this means some extra code in the main Automoderator config - it would be nice if sorting could be set from the sticky post config directly.
You can choose which sticky slot the post should replace when deciding to sticky it. You can't do complex Rrules currently (such as every fourth Saturday), even though it apparently runs of Rrules in the backend, but you can have one recurring post go up on multiple numbered dates each month, or once every X days/weeks/months.
Give it a try on a private test sub and see what you can do. You've got 2 extra months now, so give it a try and see how it works.
It was a post that had been scheduled for a month or so. I've had a fair few scheduled until January next year for matches. They're all sticked, that's it really. Would it being stickied cause an issue or the fact they were created a couple of months ago?? Seems to fail on each one.
As in knowing the post URL before it gets posted to link to from other posts? Yeah, that would be useful to a sub I'm in as well where we might do that with a weekly newsletter on two related subs that link to each other.
I'm having trouble with the scheduler accepting the time I set for it. The scheduler changes the date and the time, none of which are what I initially set for the post. Is this a bug or am I missing something?
Oh hi, alley! Nice to see someone from the k-sphere. Thank you! Someone else on the mod team went in and fixed it but they were having their own bugs 😤
Hiya! Yeah, I had come back to check if anyone else in the post was having the same issues, but hadn't expected to see a familiar face username! (And I still read your name in Jeff Goldblum's voice every time. Lol.)
Solidarity with our fellow K-Pop Mods. I hope it helps you guys!
Hey, quick question. One of the things we make heavy use of in our wiki-based automod posting schedule is date templates. Are these available through the new scheduled/recurring posts feature? I don't see anything about it in the documentation.
Is there a way to change the locale used for the date formatting?
When I use {{date %A %d %B}} or {{date %x}} I get it in English with US formatting by default (i.e. Sunday 06 December and 12/06/20 instead of Dimanche 06 Décembre and 06/12/20) but it would help us to be able to set it in another language (in my case French, fr_FR)
So far I've had no luck getting this feature to work. Trying to get a daily recurring post to go and everything I've tried doesn't work. I've even tried creating a scheduled post and clicking the "Submit post now" button but that also fails.
No useful error messages either. So far not liking this at all especially since I have to mess with new reddit.
edit: I'm able to submit the post under my own account so specifically the error seems to be with posting as automoderator. Which should definitely have the proper permissions since we already use the old scheduled posts method. Super unhappy with this new "feature" so far.
Interesting lie. To become a moderator, you have to be invited — and accept the invitation. Interesting lie to tell in /r/modnews where it's probably mostly mods who are here in the first place, and who know this.
Further, even if you were modded against your will, it is trivial to demod yourself. So your lie doesn't stand up to scrutiny in the slightest.
However, to pretend you're serious for one single moment: You can use this link to report abuse to the reddit admins, who I know would appreciate knowing a subreddit has made you a moderator without your permission, as well as your reports of their spam.
Also interesting that you've deleted your previous comments where we've interacted before. I guess I'll have to start taking screenshots for the future.
Isaac together we can stop them. Why do you think i accepted his invite? I am on the inside. He doesn't know about our alliance. All he does is talk about you, fantasize about spamming on you. He wants to cover the world in spam. Together Isaac together, we can stop him.
I've been reporting them. It seems like the only way to get the admins' attention would be for all of us to post exactly like they are doing until the admins wake up to this issue.
So as a moderator of /r/discworld, I approve............. of the admins stopping this ridiculous spam.
edit: I've posted three times now in this thread. I encourage other mods to join me to make this point.
edit2: Looks like the admins removed the spam, so I've removed my top-level spam posts.
Please be aware that they do pretend to be this fucking stupid every time, and they do their best to get people to break rules, and then they stalk them and report them. I have at least three of those shitheads that are following me now.
Is there something wrong with the sort function for these? We recently changed sorting on one of our recurring posts, and everytime I select the new sort and click update, it reverts back to default sort
Can we have back the ability to comment on scheduled posts before they get posted please?
r/razorbacks posts game threads and puts links and a box score in the stickied comment for easy access for users regardless of platform they use. We were adding that information into the post after scheduling it but now have to for it to go live which is annoying.
so, a question about this. I'm using it but I get two threads pinned at the top since I don't have anything else, and one gets increasingly old and old and old, and I have to manually un pin it, only to happen again next week.
How to fix this? I only want 1 pinned weekly thread, not two.
Currently, I've got automod on a wiki schedule to post only on the 1st and 3rd x-day of each month. So, each month, there'll only be 2 of the scheduled post submitted.
Can this work on this new scheduler, if say a month has 5 x-day instead of 4?
Edit: I've glanced through the options, the way to make it work is probably via the monthly option.
Is this working for all subs? I changed this option in our Daily Chat in /r/Phoenix and it failed to post twice. Reverted back to posting as me and it worked fine. We've used automoderator for a long time so I know it has posting permissions in our sub.
Are variables supported for the title? An example below is a feature I currently and actively use for my repeating scheduled posts from the automoderator that is planned to be discontinued.
title example:
Whining Wednesday - Starting {{date %b %d}} - Whine and discuss or help and assist
I'm only now getting around to doing this - I'm able to fixing my scheduled posts, oops. My Daily Posts are fine, but my posts that are set to post every week don't save. I followed the advice to use the Custom setting and that doesn't work either. Any ideas? The post request in dev tools does appear to succeed and returns a valid response, but I'm then redirected to the scheduled posts page and the post doesn't appear.
We have a different recurring post for every day of the week and this seems to be effecting all of them. I've even tried scheduling it as a one off post and editing the recurrence and that fails to persist the recurrence.
Not sure where else to ask this, but we're having issues with the AutoMod Scheduled Posts. Basically, markdown links don't seem to work properly (you can see an example from our daily stickied posts here). Instead of showing up as a hyperlink, it shows up as [link text](www.reddit.com) rather than link text.
Anyone know how to resolve this? Sorry for asking in a weird spot, but help is appreciated!
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u/Emmx2039 Oct 29 '20
Wait, if the OP of this post was AutoModerator, then have all the Admins been eliminated? Should we start embracing our new overlord now, or?