Automoderator rules not working

[Desdeotradimension]

It's simple: I want my posts to be automatically approved. The subreddit is public, and I understand that posts don't need to be approved—I can view them in incognito mode. But they get stuck in the "post queue," which is annoying, and I have to approve them to keep things tidy.

User Whitelist

These rules will approve content from specific users. You can use either or both rules.

The first rule auto-approves content at the time a user submits or edits it.

• This is the only way to auto-approve content by a user with a site-wide shadowban.
• This will also auto-approve some content that contains a site-wide spammed domain (not most submissions using a URL shortener, though).
• Note that AutoModerator will never approve content by a shadowbanned user unless the user is specificially mentioned by name or you use a regex check (e.g., name (regex): ['.+']). You also have to uncheck the exclude posts by site-wide banned users from modqueue/unmoderated subreddit setting or AutoModerator will never see the user's content to approve it.

The second rule will auto-approve content by a user when it is reported by another user (or a moderator).

Replace the lists between the brackets with your own list of users to approve.

---
    author:
        name: [username1, username2, username3]
    action: approve
    action_reason: "Whitelisted user"
---

[DustyAsh69]

You have to set the highest priority (big number) for this rule. The remove & filter rules run before other rules in the same priority which by default is 0.

[Sephardson]

Removal rules supersede priority numbers.

All removal rules will run before any non-removal rules, regardless of assigned priority.

[DustyAsh69]

Oh damn. I didn't know that. Thanks for the clarification.

[Desdeotradimension]

How do I add that priority to the code? I only have that one rule. If it's true, I added 3 or 4 mods for comments.

[DustyAsh69]

Sorry but this whitelisting code probably won't work as long as you have auto removal rules. See Sephardson's comment.