I would like automod to respond to comments mentioning suicide by providing the user with the national suicide hotline which is simply 988 and can be called or texted.
Even when we have been sustained struggling with suicidal ideation, the act itself is often spontaneous and very commonly influenced by substance use (primarily alcohol). I've talked people thru/out of suicide attempts, who then improved upon their life and mental health drastically. Sometimes we need to hit rock bottom before we really comprehend the need/have the drive to commit to the hard changes required. Sometimes we just need one person to show they care enough for us to change our minds in our most vulnerable and desperate state. People have reported a stranger simply smiling at them or saying hello was enough to stop them from jumping off a bridge.
Please include a feature like this getting people in touch with support when they desperately need it the most.
I think there should be no bots with global actions (as in, interacting with posts and comments that were created on federated instances). Bots should only be allowed to interact with their home instance. Bots on Reddit were really annoying for this, as you would always get replies from the global grammar correction bots that added nothing to the conversation. Besides, because each instance admin will probably be hosting their own version of the bot, if global actions are allowed and several instances enable them, one single comment that contains the trigger can get spammed by several bots.
Thanks! Federation is quite annoying like that. I’m working on a Lemmy AutoModerator in Python that uses the YAML configuration like Reddit’s AutoModerator but it doesn’t take commands from any external source, so it’s nice to have similar projects as a reference. My focus is specifically on the post scheduling module right now because what my communities need most are weekly threads, so that would be a great feature to see in this bot.
(This is a reply to this comment. When I try to reply to your comment directly, it doesn't sync over to lemmy.world. Your post with the links to the source code isn't updating on my instance either)
I am totally new to being a mod so take my suggestion with a grain of salt. Would it be possible to remove images or content based on a database of known offending content? I grew up in the days of goatse (please please do NOT Google that) and would like such things to be auto removed. I will survive the occasional false negative, but minimizing such things would be appreciated. I know large tech companies have something similar to remove abuse photos.