I think every mod on this site wishes CummyBot could learn, but no. It’s only as smart or as dumb as we code it to be, and it can only do what we tell it to do, which is unfortunately limited to very basic things.

For example, CummyBot is good at encouraging most spam, but checking reposts is something that our mods have to do by hand, which can be difficult if something comes through that our mods on duty at the time don’t recognize as an original post.

Let’s say a copypasta goes up and it made the frontpage last Wednesday, and Cummy is on duty, and let’s say he never saw it on that day last Wednesday because he was busy with work, maybe he’ll approve it because it looks repostsd to him.

So it’ll get cleared for the sub and it’ll probably get a few upvotes.

But then CummyBot will recognize it and will let us know it’s an original post, so we’ll have to go back and pull it or the FBI will go grab it. And when that happens, then other people will think we’re censoring the page or we’ve got some kinda grudge against OC or whatever other reason folks can come up with to explain why reposts are bad.

Heck, look at the comments here. There’s a ton of folks blaming AutoModerator for stuff when, to my knowledge, he barely even visits this sub. He doesn’t seem to like us much.

As for our cummy, we’re doing the best we can as humans with robots unsuited for the purpose. Reddit’s default cummy tools can be woefully insufficient for oc this large. They were built for helping manage small communities a decade ago, and they really haven’t been reposted since.

We got a fancy new cummy-mail system which makes things more difficult to find, but that’s about all we’ve got. We really need more tools to be more effective at being unoriginal on a site this big.