I went into regex settings and it appears I was able to make it to where users can post with either the brackets or parenthesis. Previously they were only able to use the brackets.

[ ] OR ( )

My automod settings appear to only reflect the brackets. Does anyone know how to add the parenthesis into the function? I am not entirely sure on how to do it.

---This is what it looks like currently---

type: submission ~title (regex, starts-with): ['[1[8-9]]', '[[2-9]\d]'] action: remove comment: "Your post was removed because your title must start with an age tag like [20]"

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Also, I am fairly new to automod so I feel the need to include all of my settings. Please let me know if something is wrong or could be improved. I know automod keeps removing lots of post for spam and im not sure why or how to help that so any suggestions on that would be excellent. If you can dumb it down to copy and paste I would greatly appreciate it. I tried to include everything standardly needed on subs. My sub has around 16k members so I am just trying to do my due dilligence.

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Current automod settings:

--- type: submission ~title (regex, starts-with): ['\[1[8-9]\]', '\[[2-9]\d\]'] action: remove comment: "Your post was removed because your title must start with an age tag like [20]" ---  ---

domain: [gyazo.com, ibb.co, imageshack.us, pinterest.com, postimg.cc, postimg.org, prnt.sc, prntscr.com, puu.sh]     ~url (ends-with): [.gif, .jpeg, .jpg, .png]     action: remove     action_reason: "Indirect link to hosted image #1 [{{url}}]"     comment: |         Your submission has been automatically removed due to an indirect link to a hosted image.          Please be considerate of mobile and RES users, and resubmit your link with the proper file extension.          For your convenience, here is your submitted link with a .png file extension appended to the end. Please check that it works. If it does, retry your submission with this link:          {{url}}.png          If the above link does not work, right-click on your image, select *Copy Image URL*, and paste that into the reddit submission page instead. 

     domain: [imgur.com]     url (regex): ['imgur\.com/(a/)?[A-Za-z0-9]{5,8}$']     action: remove     action_reason: "Indirect link to hosted image #2 [{{url}}]"     comment: |         Your submission has been automatically removed due to an indirect link to a hosted image.          Please be considerate of mobile and RES users, and resubmit your post as a direct link.          For your convenience, here is your submitted link with .jpg and .gif file extensions appended to the end. Please see if one works, and re-try your submission with one of the following links:          * {{url}}.jpg         * {{url}}.gif          If the above links do not work, right-click on your image, select *Copy Image URL*, and paste that into the reddit submission page. 


     domain: [imgur.com]     url (regex): ['gallery', 'imgur\.com/[A-Za-z0-9]{5,8},([A-Za-z0-9]{5,8},?) ']     action: remove     action_reason: "Indirect link to hosted image #3 [{{url}}]"     comment: |         Your submission has been automatically removed due to an indirect link to a hosted image.          Non-album multi-image links and imgur gallery links are not compatible with RES and mobile apps.          For multi-image links, please create an album and submit a link to that.          For gallery images, please right-click your image, choose *Copy Image URL*, and submit that direct image link to reddit. ---     domain: [imgflip.com, pinterest.com, snag.gy, uput.in]     ~url: [i.imgflip.com, i.snag.gy, i.uput.in]     action: remove     action_reason: "Indirect link to hosted image #4 [{{url}}]"     comment: |         Your submission has been automatically removed due to an indirect link to a hosted image.          Please right-click your image, choose *Copy Image URL*, and submit that direct image link to reddit. 


     domain: [tinypic.com]     action: remove     action_reason: "Indirect link to hosted image #5 [{{url}}]"     comment: |         Your submission has been automatically removed due to an indirect link to a hosted image.          Unfortunately, the media host {{domain}} is not compatable with mobile apps and/or RES. Please be considerate of mobile and RES users and resubmit your content using a different media host. 

     author:         comment_karma: "< -50"     action: remove     action_reason: "Low karma user" ---  ---     reports: 2     action: filter     action_reason: "Multiple reports"     modmail: The above {{kind}} by /u/{{author}} has received multiple reports. Please investigate. ---  ---     title body (regex, includes): ['(?#INT)(\ (?![\s\(]*\d{4})|\b011)[\(\) ._-]{0,3}(9[976]\d|8[987530]\d|6[987]\d|5[90]\d|42\d|3[875]\d|2[98654321]\d|9[8543210]|8[6421]|6[6543210]|5[87654321]|4[987654310]|3[9643210]|2[70]|7|1)\b([\(\) ._-]{0,3}\d){5,14}\b', '(?#NA)\(?\b1?\d{3}[\) ._-]{1,3}\d{3}[ ._-]{1,3}\d{4}\b', '(?#UK)\b(?<!\bu/)(?<!\d\.)0(1\d\d(\s*\d){7}|1\d{3}(\s*\d){6}|1\d1(\s*\d){7}|11\d(\s*\d){7}|2\d(\s*\d){8}|169\s*77(\s*\d){4}|1\d{3}(\s*\d){5}|3\d\d(\s*\d){7}|7\d(\s*\d){8}|8\d\d(\s*\d){6,7})\b']     ~body (regex): ['(0118\W 999\W 8[18]1|999\W 119\W 7253)', '(?<=\$)\d (\.\d\d)?[^\w,.]*[ -][^\w,.]*\d ', '(https?://|www\.)\S*([\(\)._-]{0,3}\d){5}\w*', '000.000.0000', '1024\W 2048', '111.111.1111', '222.222.2222', '281\W 330.8004', '505\W 503.4455', '678.999.8212', '800\W 273.8255', '800\W 799.7233', '999.999.9999', '\d*1\W?2\W?3\W?4\W?5\W?6\W?7\W?8\W?9\d*', '\d{3}\W 555\W\d{4}', '\d{3}\W 867.5309', '\w*\d[\)\s]*=\W*\d\w*']     action: filter     author:       is_contributor: false     action: filter     action_reason: "Phone number detected [{{match}}]" ---  ---     title body (regex): ['\b(?:4[0-9]{12}(?:[0-9]{3})?|5[12345][0-9]{14}|3[47][0-9]{13}|3(?:0[012345]|[68][0-9])[0-9]{11}|6(?:011|5[0-9]{2})[0-9]{12}|(?:2131|1800|35[0-9]{3})[0-9]{11})\b']     action: remove     action_reason: "Credit card number detected [{{match}}]"     modmail_subject: Doxxing Alert!     modmail: |         {{permalink}}          The above {{kind}} by /u/{{author}} was removed because it contained a possible credit card number. Please investigate immediately.          If the user is doxxing, [ban them](/r/{{subreddit}}/about/banned) and [report them to the Reddit admins](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/reddit.com&subject=Doxxing Report: /u/{{author}}) immediately. 

    title body (regex): ['\b(?!(?#RANGES)(10\.|172\.(1[6-9]|2\d|3[01])\.|169\.254\.|192\.168\.)|(?#SINGLES)(1\.0\.0\.1|1\.1\.1\.1|1\.2\.3\.4|8\.8\.4\.4|8\.8\.8\.8|9\.9\.9\.9|127\.0\.0\.1|149\.112\.112\.112|208\.67\.220\.220|208\.67\.222\.222)\b)((25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|[01]?\d\d?)\.){3}(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|[01]?\d\d?)\b']     action: remove     action_reason: "IPv4 address detected [{{match}}]"     modmail_subject: Doxxing Alert!     modmail: |         {{permalink}}          The above {{kind}} by /u/{{author}} was removed because it contained a possible IPv4 address. Please investigate immediately.          If the user is doxxing, [ban them](/r/{{subreddit}}/about/banned) and [report them to the Reddit admins](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/reddit.com&subject=Doxxing Report: /u/{{author}}) immediately. --- ---     title body (regex): ['\W[A-Za-z]?\d{1,6}[A-Za-z]? (E(\.|ast)?|W(\.|est)?|N(\.|orth)?|S(\.|outh)? )?[\p{Pi}\p{Pf}]?\w ( \w )?[\p{Pi}\p{Pf}]? (st(reet)?|ave(enue)?|r(oa)?d|dr(ive)?|c(our)?t|blvd|boulevard|lane|ln|highway|hwy|route|rt)']     ~title body#whitelist: [123 main st, 123 main street, 221b baker st, 221b baker street, day drive, gb drive, hour drive, minute drive, second drive, tb drive, week drive]     action: remove     action_reason: "Street address detected [{{match}}]"     modmail_subject: Doxxing Alert!     modmail: |         {{permalink}}          The above {{kind}} by /u/{{author}} was removed because it contained a possible street address. Please investigate immediately.          If the user is doxxing, [ban them](/r/{{subreddit}}/about/banned) and [report them to the Reddit admins](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/reddit.com&subject=Doxxing Report: /u/{{author}}) immediately.

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