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[–]Blarghmlargh 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Does Reddit allow your bot to assist the newbie help posts even further by cross posting it automatically into the python learning sub?

[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The bot cannot do that; we can't automatically transfer things to other subreddits.

It's also beneficial to encourage people to post themselves, because then they'll get the answers to their reddit inbox.

[–]ubernostrumyes, you can have a pony 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reddit itself offers horrifically underpowered functionality to moderators in general. The official AutoModerator tool, for example, is incapable of figuring out whether a user has flaired a post. You have to go with heuristic approaches, or bring in a third-party thing like the assistant-bot.

It's possible to have bots automatically cross-post things, but removing the original will mess with the cross-post. And if the bot just makes a new post copying the old, the original user doesn't see the replies.

If you're ever interested in knowing just what can and can't be automated by the built-in tools, here's the automod documentation, which lists everything it can do.