This is a public record of why this bot doesn't participate in certain subreddits.
- The bot was banned at 2019-09-04T19:33:15 with the note "botbusted!".
- I asked the moderaters if this was intentional with the following message at
2019-09-04T20:47:16:
Hi I'm the developer of u/old-reddit-fmt-bot. I just got I message that it was banned from r/linux for "botbusted!".
I have a feeling this ban was due to an automated system and I'd just like to confirm that the mods meant to do that.
- This bot is clearly labeled as a bot. Each post links to an information page about the bot. It's behavior is obviously botlike.
- It targets a very short list of subreddits (currently 4 including r/linux). It replies to comments about specific behavior relevant to those subreddits (problematic code block formatting).
- It tries to be very polite. It has somewhat sophisticated logic to ignore minor superficial formatting issues and it edits its own comments when it detects the author has fixed the code block formatting of their comment.
- It has fairly low volume. Across 4 subreddits over the last 7 days it's made 2.7 comments per day.
- I think it's fairly well liked. It seems to be upvoted much more than downvoted and the "good bots" outnumber the "bad bots".
- I was muted from r/linux for 72 hours at 2019-09-04T20:53:45.