How to configure AutoModerator to reply to specific comments with custom responses?

Hey everyone! I’ve figured out how to make AutoModerator post comments under every new submission. However, I recently came across something different. In the attached screenshot, you can see AutoModerator leaving custom replies directly under user comments, not just at the post level. These replies appear in the AutoModerator’s comment history, so it’s clearly not a separate bot.

That got me wondering:

• Is there some hidden snippet or workaround that allows mods to force AutoModerator to reply to specific user comments, either via rule config, Mod Tools, or API triggers?

So far, I haven’t found any modtool option that enables this, nor have I seen an official rule format for comment-level replies. It doesn't seem like something the default AutoMod can do natively, unless there's some trick I’m missing. Has anyone here dealt with this? Any idea how sub owners are making AutoModerator do this?

Replying directly to user comments like that screenshot shows is next level. I've never seen AutoMod do that just outta the box. Maybe they're using some kind of script on top of AutoMod or possibly someone tweaked AutoMod’s settings in a way I’m not familiar with. It's definitely not a standard AutoMod feature at least from what I know. I'm really curious how they did it now. I wonder if some clever coding is involved and the screenshot might have some clues. Let me take a peek.

Automoderator can't reply to specific comments by default - you need a custom bot using reddit's API to do that.

optimalegg68 said:

Replying directly to user comments like that screenshot shows is next level. I've never seen AutoMod do that just outta the box. Maybe they're using some kind of script on top of AutoMod or possibly someone tweaked AutoMod’s settings in a way I’m not familiar with. It's definitely not a standard AutoMod feature at least from what I know. I'm really curious how they did it now. I wonder if some clever coding is involved and the screenshot might have some clues. Let me take a peek.

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its not clever, its just basic.

You give automoderator a list of words to respond on.

So for example when someone else makes a comment in that subreddit with the text or probably word "wtf is" it should respond with that same.

I’ve seen some subs use bots labeled as AutoModerator but they’re actually third-party scripts mimicking it.