What it does

Downvote Delete removes or filters posts that get downvoted too much. It monitors for a certain amount of time or until the post has enough positive karma. It is lightweight and easy to use.

As of May 27 2026, it has about 50 installs - how many does it have now?

Inspiration

Crowd Control has the ability to collapse comments from users with negative community karma or downvoted comments. AutoMod can detect when a user has negative subreddit or total karma, but it does NOT have the ability to monitor post karma and remove them once they're downvoted too low.

This requires a custom Devvit app to monitor posts.

How we built it

Downvote Delete uses cron jobs assigned to each new post detected. If it gets downvoted too much, a moderator action (report, filter, delete) is applied. If it gains positive karma or enough time passes, tracking ends.

Challenges we ran into

Reddit uses something called "karma fuzzing" to hide exactly how many downvotes a post has, but we can use the upvote ratio to better estimate.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Downvote Delete started with 0 users on Monday, May 18 2026. I last updated this on May 27 with about 50 installs. How many does it have now?

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