If you are referring FootballAutoMod it's a very basic bot I wrote for posting weekly discussion threads. The tagging of people were just a simple script I wrote to get a list of everyone who have interacted with the community in the last 365 days and then splitting the list up to get within the 10k character limit for comments.
I'm personally in favour VAR, never felt it was much of an obstruction while going to local games. Glad my club voted in favour ⚪🔵
I feel pretty sympathetic with the admin team. They're in a spot where it's impossible to not make one group or another angry. They are probably doing their best to create a nice server. It's clear from their ad hoc rules that the team keep facing new problems they weren't expecting.