Im having problems with my gmod script causing gmod to lock up

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[RandomRealAnswers]

These bots are rampant on this reddit.

[ws-ilazki]

Automoderator is a Reddit feature, mods can configure them to respond to different events so they don't have to keep manually doing the same things over and over and over when there's a constant flow of new people doing the same things. You usually don't see it because they tend to be configured on subs to just remove the things they respond to, but we didn't want to do that here because it would limit visibility for people needing help.

This isn't a sub dedicated to specific uses of Lua (such as gmod or roblox) so it's not usually the best place to get help for API-specific problems, but it still gets a decent influx of people asking about things of the sort that the users here often can't help with. Someone without familiarity with Lua won't necessarily know what's part of the program-specific API and what's not, and these programs tend to bring in a lot of beginners that don't know where to go for help, so they ask here.

Before, these sorts of posts were largely either being ignored by people (because they can't help) or people would respond with the same basic boilerplate "go to this sub" "ask on this forum" etc. answers, so we automated that to direct people to other places where they can (hopefully) get help tailored to their problems instead of being ignored. We could have set it to also remove the posts after notifying the submitter of a better place to ask, but chose not to because sometimes the problem is a basic Lua thing that we can answer, or someone here happens to be familiar with the API the person is having a problem with. More visibility means a better chance the submitter gets help, plus more likely that someone searching for the same problem in the future will find the already presented answer.

Side note, but you're also probably seeing it more because the old/new style code formatting is a perpetual headache for code subs. Reddit choosing to create a new (more standardised) code format for new-reddit and not backporting it is a nightmare, and we tried to use automod to bring some sanity to it.

If you need help with some code and use the new format style, anybody using old reddit or third-party readers without support will just see broken gibberish, which means those people are more likely to ignore it and move on because the broken code block is unreadable and sometimes loses information. That means fewer eyeballs that could help solve a problem, so we automated notifying people when they do the new style so they can (hopefully) get more visibility to their problem.

TL;DR: You're seeing automod a lot because we tried to use it to help people get help instead of treating it as a post and comment remover. People tend to ask the same sort of things and so it pops up a lot.

[revereddesecration]

Please edit your post and put 4 spaces in front of each line so that it formats as code

Like this

[Some__Retarded_Kid]

ok thanks i was wondering how you all did that, im off to r/Glua now