For some reason, we’re being targeted by repost bots every so often. I have already tried to implement bot bouncer but it doesn’t always catch them and mess on with the internal settings to no avail. I tried making flairs mandatory but the bot just chooses a random one.
It’s not so much the members problem, but as the only active moderator, my problem. However, I’m not on Reddit 24/7 and sometimes posts garner attention before I can remove them. If you want to quickly search if something is a repost, take the title or a partial of the title and put it into the search bar. You’ll see that the original, human made post was done a year to 6 months ago or so. I even remember some of the originals because this subreddit isn’t even that busy.
If an account is a bot, they usually:
- have had their accounts created in the last month or so, sometimes within minutes
- have absolutely no other post history, sometimes they might have one or two posts in other subreddits but these are still reposts and sometimes their members pick up on them. I go out of my way to report these to the mods also
- have no comments/do not reply to any comments
- only post the title and an image, they do not provide any context leaving people confused
Someone was pretty upset I’d removed a game post the other week, but that’s because it was a repost bot who had posted day 15 of the daily game or something. If a post you commented on disappeared, it’s probably a bot unless it’s on the off chance it’s irrelevant to the overall franchise.
There is a rule that says “no bots” but that just allows me to remove something quickly.
Thanks if you got this far.
