I recently made a bot which replies to mentions of it, with AI-generated images matching the prompt in the comment. It was up for 2 hours before it got shadowbanned and the subreddit I used to post the images got banned.

I believe it was an automated action and I opened an appeal, but I wish to figure out a way to avoid this fate in the future.

Is there any good guidelines which work to avoid beneficial bots getting flagged. I thought by having the bot only work when summoned should be enough, but apparently not.

So I'm thinking:

• Only reply when mentioned with a specific keyphrase
• only replying when comment comes from a whitelisted subreddit (subreddit admins will have to contact me to add the bot to a whitelist)
• only generate SFW images
• Do not use a subreddit as CDN

What other restrictions would you add to avoid falling afoul of automated spam detection?

Ultimately I want to make something that enriches the reddit community without butting-in where it's not wanted.