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Policy2026-08-06 · source-backed
Rules Hub, which interprets the intent of a subreddit rule rather than matching AutoMod keywords, is now available to all newly created communities after testing with 700+ communities, ahead of a site-wide rollout later this year. Mods choose queue-for-review or auto-remove. Reddit says the goal is for Rules Hub to eventually replace AutoMod's enforcement while the rest of AutoMod stays. The same announcement restricts Old Reddit to logged-in users as an anti-scraping measure, landing the same week public JSON endpoints started returning 403. If your tooling reads Reddit unauthenticated, it's broken now. Mine is.
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