[perihelions]

This is uncharitable; one merely filters isolated comments, the other temporarily* bans humans from an entire social media site.

If you click through to their offending thread, the AutoMod profile they built has a field value of "action: report". As I understand it, that means it does nothing but forward the flagged comment to a human moderator for review. As benign and judicious a use of automation as you can get.

*edit: s/permanently/temporarily/ (sorry!)

[soneil]

I'm assuming they were showing an example of a regex that will match a list of terms, and the sheer quantity of terms (rather than the initial presence of) weighted its score heavily.

It's a little unfortunate, but 3 days isn't terrible, and it's a good lesson in false positives.

[rossvor]

>This is uncharitable: one merely filters isolated comments, the other permanently bans humans from an entire social media site.

For three days, not permanently:

>"You’ve been banned from Reddit for three days"

[djbebs]

They are both censoring