It’s lazy. It has no place in quality communities. If you are a mod and feel so overwhelmed unable to keep up with the posts in your communities, then you need to please consider bringing on other quality mods and /or step down and let someone else do the job to help you.
/rant
Edit: as was pointed out, my post was overly negative toward mods. I apologize. I should’ve waited before posting this so I didn’t come across as inflammatory.
Wow the one unpopular opinion is down voted. Surprising.
I think auto mod is good but not currently needed. We have the full freedom to develop and moderate our communities however we please and I’m sure we will come up with many better solutions than auto mod.
Some of us need sleep sometimes.
That’s why you bring on other mods to help.
Dude, you don’t mod any comms yourself. There’s dozens of comms that need mods, pick one up and contribute.
I don’t think you understand what automod actually did. Nor what the currently available lemmy version does.
If a tool could be used to detect and remove CSAM and ban users then it should. No one should need to see that kind of stuff. It leaves a mark.