Biography
Chad Birch, known on Reddit as Deimorz, was a volunteer moderator of the r/gaming subreddit who in early 2012 built AutoModerator, a bot using Reddit's API to automate repetitive moderation tasks such as keyword and domain filtering. The tool became widely adopted across subreddits, and in 2013 Reddit hired Birch, who developed a wiki-based per-subreddit configuration system; AutoModerator was officially integrated platform-wide in March 2015. AutoModerator is now regarded as foundational infrastructure for content moderation on Reddit and has been the subject of academic study. Birch left Reddit in 2016.