Developing: Trouble with /r/undelete bot.
65 2013-11-19 by 4211315
The bot that runs /r/undelete is down. So far the user in charge of it does not know why.
This means, effectively, that /r/undelete is currently not functioning.
/u/FrontPageWatch, the badass who runs /r/undelete, has posted this in his subreddit, a notice that his bot (which makes all the posts) is down for unknown reasons. Looks like the similar bot in /r/longtail is also out of commission.
For those who don't know, /r/undelete is the catch-all for posts that get deleted from reddit's top 100. Recently it has gained a lot of attention as dissatisfaction with reddit's moderation system is mounting.
/u/FrontPageWatch says "Really hope it wasn't the admins....."
2 hours later. It is still down. No comment yet from the mod over there.
5 hours later: It has now been 24 hours since reddit had /r/undelete.
11 comments
20 TheTilde 2013-11-19
We absolutely need r/undelete. It's a public service.
-2 LinkFixerBotSnr 2013-11-19
/r/undelete
This is an automated bot. For reporting problems, contact /u/WinneonSword. If this bot fixes a link that is the same as the subreddit, ignore it. /u/WinneonSword is working on this.
3 Strensh 2013-11-19
LinkFixerBotSnr, if only your brother UncensorshipFixerBot was here...
Please tell your creator to create a more productive bot army.
3 go1dfish 2013-11-19
See /u/ModerationLog and /u/uncensorship
Also /u/PoliticBot
16 joetromboni 2013-11-19
Wow, I've seen it all now. Taking out the bot that is the watchdog of the frontpage...
Shameful reddit, shameful.
8 nordite 2013-11-19
Wow..... Let's hope it gets back up & running soon, since I'm sure we'll be missing some posts that get removed.
2 go1dfish 2013-11-19
/r/ModerationLog and my other bot at /r/POLITIC are still working fine.
It may be that the author was going above the API request limits and they disabled the bot by user agent?
2 TheGhostOfDusty 2013-11-19
Looks like the undelete bot is back in action now.
Did you ever figure out why your bots were temporarily shadow-banned a couple months ago? Was it that API thing?
2 go1dfish 2013-11-19
the bots inadvertently reposted some personal information which is against the rules of reddit. Some other bots got caught up in that as well. I sorted it out with the admins, and now have some human admins at /r/politic to help deal with that sort of situation.
I've been affected by the request limit as well, but they never shut my bot down; just asked that I throttle it back some. In general the admins have been pretty cooperative and understanding; they just don't want my bot to PM users or monitor non-political subreddits.
Bot authors are required to identify their bot in the HTTP user agent string, so it would be possible for the admins to block a specific bot in this manner without necessarily banning the account.
1 Fuckyousantorum 2013-11-19
Anything we can do to help?
1 [deleted] 2013-11-19
Well, let's discuss how to fix this. I'm the least tech savy person I know, so I can only offer the idea that we get this issue to the front page.