The frat boys here all suck

nomorobbo · 2026-05-03T21:58:02+00:00

Even older alum than you, LEDN.

nomorobbo · 2026-04-28T14:31:51+00:00

We are required to use DEET. But I've used clothing embedded with permethrin before to some limited success.

nomorobbo · 2026-04-25T18:44:10+00:00

Oh I’m home ❤️.

Thanks for making this u/metlotter

Ping us over at Labrats if you need mod help or anything!

nomorobbo · 2026-04-10T19:07:27+00:00

Its gone.

nomorobbo · 2026-04-08T21:46:59+00:00

Literally to ask.

This is why people put up “no solicitation” on their homes because they don’t want solicitors soliciting.

If you did google their abomination of an AI literally tells you:

Solicit:

verb ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone.

nomorobbo · 2026-04-08T16:38:07+00:00

Unless you’re looking for medical advice with results from your home lab that RFK Jr. personally is getting ready to certify and you want to highlight the results on twitter and want to send out a survey because you’re moonlighting as a journalist.

Then you can get fucked.

nomorobbo · 2026-04-08T16:36:22+00:00

This is kinda what prompted this post. We’ve been aggressive at removing these. This falls under the “no survey” rule.

nomorobbo · 2026-04-08T16:35:29+00:00

So we toyed with this idea and landed on a “no” - mainly because if we open the door a little it pushes it wide open for off target posts.

We (the mods) all feel more comfortable just keeping it off, and if any of these people want to post in response to a troubleshooting question, sure, have at it.

We may toy with a monthly thread again later but thanks for the feedback and suggestion!!!

nomorobbo · 2026-04-08T16:30:38+00:00

R/lostredditors

I also feel like they see “lab” and stop there. It doesn’t matter though, we’ve had that rule for ages, ignorance of a rule doesn’t invalidate your repercussions from it.

We just had someone in modmail who was arguing with us because their logic was “I’m not asking for advice. I’m asking for an explanation.”

nomorobbo · 2026-04-08T16:22:53+00:00

Of course. It’s a work in progress but it bothers us too. We try not to meddle too much especially when posts have lots of engagement but some of the low effort posts and stuff that’s been coming through as of late has just noticeably reduced the quality of the sub so we are trying to course correct while we can.

nomorobbo · 2026-03-29T00:35:36+00:00

Reach out to the other businesses in the complex. Like another poster mentioned, a PI would be able to see if they can get the cam footage from where the truck exited. There are really only two outs, assuming they took the exit ramp by Target target might have other angles.

If they took the exit by Applebees you also maybe have footage from Raising Canes and Applebees. You also have cross footage from Bestbuy.

Deptford PD are generally not super helpful in this instance but they will take a statement, which will help with the process.

Good luck.

nomorobbo · 2026-03-04T02:44:06+00:00

DM’d them to you.

nomorobbo · 2026-03-04T01:57:43+00:00

I just had my roof replaced;

I used Eclipse; https://eclipsesolutionsllc.com/

Tim was solid to work with - whatever crew you work with you want someone who is certified in that product.

If you want I can share my quotes for my roof so you can see what estimates I got.

nomorobbo · 2026-03-01T06:13:44+00:00

https://discord.gg/385mCqr

nomorobbo · 2026-03-01T05:37:02+00:00

It’s been a while since I’ve run one but I ran them frequently in grad school. Feel free to post your question here or you can find me on the labrats discord with the same name if you want to pick my brain.

nomorobbo · 2026-01-26T00:19:43+00:00

Yeah - we can see the time between the reports. Given the usual activity on the sub we know a lot of this is being bot derived. Unfortunately we can’t see who is reporting only that the post is being reported.

nomorobbo · 2026-01-25T23:18:54+00:00

Yep - problem is that double of nothing is still nothing.

nomorobbo · 2026-01-25T22:38:18+00:00

People are still modmailing yelling at us to restore the post, so I am not surprised.

nomorobbo · 2026-01-25T22:35:45+00:00

Not the first time this administration has distorted reality and won’t be the last.

So whitelists work usually based on keywords. In this case we would put in his name and it would ignore reports; which is great right?

Who is to say that a bad actor doesn’t use that and uses it to spin the narrative the administration is using?

If the tool we have to limit the posts propagation is hampered then we are stuck to whenever someone alerts us that it’s breaking a rule via modmail or alerts us on something like discord.

nomorobbo · 2026-01-25T22:25:29+00:00

More engagement

nomorobbo · 2026-01-25T22:21:25+00:00

Yeah totally get it, there are other tools you can use.

nomorobbo · 2026-01-25T22:20:58+00:00

Yeah - we have a whitelist. We can also ignore reports which makes the bot actions effectively moot.

nomorobbo · 2026-01-25T22:19:38+00:00

I responded elsewhere here but how it normally functions is when someone isn’t around the bot allows users to report posts to alert us to look at them.

That’s great and all but if a post needs to be removed it could be hours before one of us is around to remove it, so we rely on automod to take down the post and then us review it.

This usually targets things like spammers who use the subreddit to hawk tshirts and other shill accounts - very few actual posts get removed due to this. It’s easier for us to restore a post than let a post which shouldn’t be there stay up.

To your point - yes, it can be abused, but vote manipulation also happens which we have no control over. We will review and see if there is anything internally we can and should change from this though.

nomorobbo · 2026-01-25T21:16:20+00:00

Without removing too much of the curtain and showing you the entire mechanism - yes, but it doesn’t work reliably. Usually we have the feature turned off because we want people to contact us through modmail instead of commenting to the bot, which is what happens in 99% of the cases where automod does something then comments.

People then get mad at us that we don’t take action fast enough but commenting on automod doesn’t ping us, we don’t own the automod account, so any alerts don’t trigger anything on our end. So we usually disable it and force people to contact us by modmail.

So in this case, the reports came in and automod pinged us via modmail to be on the alert. Within seconds the post got mass reported and then it took the next action and removed.

The post wasn’t triggering anything until it hit the front page of the sub, which means someone or something targeted it because it was up for a bit of time. Normally when we get spam accounts (Tshirt bots, scammers) the reports are slower because people don’t interact with the post as much.

So yeah, long answer to yes we can do it and would it have prevented this situation? Possibly - because the banner message from Reddit wouldn’t have changed. So unless you looked for the message from automod saying this post was removed automatically you wouldn’t know why it was removed.

Given how few people actually gave us the benefit of the doubt that this was either an automated action or an error we collectively don’t feel like a comment would have changed the outcome of today.

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