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Official stats showed that only 3% of moderation actions come from 3rd party apps, this was just a made up argument all along. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/

• anonred 3y ago
  It’s impressive what a determined, vocal minority can achieve with just a bit of drama. I hope this ends quickly so everyone else can get back to aimlessly doomscrolling on Reddit.
  • appletrotter 3y ago
    It’s impressive the power of a misleading statistic more like.
• jeremyjh 3y ago
  Oh, well if spez says it, it must be true!
  • michaelmrose 3y ago
    I know he is a paragon of virtue who would never use access to production to edit people's comments!
• appletrotter 3y ago
  That’s for all actions, including auto moderator actions. I understand that the % of manual mod actions is closer to 30% on 3PA.
  • anonred 3y ago
    Do you have a source for the 30% manual mod actions claim?
• mustacheemperor 3y ago
  This leaves out a significant share of how moderators use the API, which is for bots and external services that augment moderation without actually doing the moderating. Example, a mod at /r/music remarked last week that they’ve been paying a few bucks a month to host a server for some additional features for years. It’s common to use some automation to summon mods in a discord so someone near a computer can execute the moderating, since the mobile tools are so limited. And ofc as other uses pointed out, that’s 3% of a sum including the vast number of auto moderator mod actions taken on the site, which are not really human originated at all.
  • iLoveOncall 3y ago
    And if you read the source you will see that all those tools will retain free access to the API...