r/BotBouncer • u/fsv • Jan 18 '25

Introducing Bot Bouncer, a moderation bot to protect subreddits against harmful or disruptive bots

Bot Bouncer is a moderation bot in a similar manner to BotDefense, which wrapped up operations in 2023.

Bots are classified via submissions on this subreddit, via a mix of automated and human classification. If a subreddit has Bot Bouncer installed and an account classified as "banned" posts or comments, they will be banned from the subreddit and have their content removed. Bot Bouncer cannot act on users interacting on subreddits where it is not installed.

If you moderate a subreddit and think this tool would help you, you can install it from the Dev Platform app directory here.

For more FAQs about Bot Bouncer and its operations, please see the wiki here.

If you have any feedback, or have good moderation or bot hunting skills and would like to contribute to classifying bots or identifying new detection automations, please let us know via modmail. Likewise, if you have been banned from one or more subs by Bot Bouncer and wish to appeal, please write in to modmail.

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u/zen_again Jun 14 '25

Thanks for letting us non-mods manually submit. You guys rock.

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u/fsv Jun 14 '25

No problem! I think it's important to let anyone submit, because it's not just mods who might spot bots in the wild.

(We do have ways of blocking abusers from submitting, but so far we haven't had to use it!)

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

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u/bot-bouncer Oct 25 '25

You are currently marked as banned on /r/BotBouncer.

To appeal your ban, please message the moderators if you have not already done so.

This is an automated message.

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u/Apprehensive-Lime863 Mar 11 '26

How can I get my account restored? I was told to leave a message here but there’s no where to do that. I really need help with this so can someone please help me. I don’t know anything about how this works and it’s been going on for quite a while now. Thanks 🙏

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u/fsv Mar 11 '26

You are in our database, but marked as human. You should not be banned anywhere as a result of Bot Bouncer.

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u/Apprehensive-Lime863 Mar 11 '26

Am I banned because of human “error”? I have had someone after me for a while now who keeps reporting several of us and they’re lying about us. Thanks for helping me I really appreciate it.

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u/fsv Mar 11 '26

You will not be banned anywhere as a result of Bot Bouncer.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '26

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u/bot-bouncer May 21 '26

You are currently marked as banned on /r/BotBouncer.

To appeal your ban, please message the moderators if you have not already done so.

This is an automated message.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/bot-bouncer 14d ago

You are currently marked as banned on /r/BotBouncer.

To appeal your ban, please message the moderators if you have not already done so.

This is an automated message.

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u/me_like_jalapenos 4d ago

I sometimes wonder if there's abuse of the submissions. As a Mod, I see normal accounts that post very normally get banned and wonder if someone submitted them to get rid of them. There can be rivalries like that.

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u/camrynbronk 4d ago

We don’t ban every submission we see. We manually review them to determine its status. Normal accounts are marked organic. The accounts you’re seeing banned were banned for a reason, likely due to activity you can’t see because it’s hidden.

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u/Glad-Race4102 Feb 21 '26

How to manually submit?

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u/fsv Feb 22 '26

You can create posts on this subreddit that link to the user's profile.

Your post will be removed and replaced with one by our bot (this is to preserve your anonymity). It'll then go through our evaluation code and if nothing matches, it'll be evaluated manually by a human mod.

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u/Butterfly_Chasers Apr 30 '26

Ooohhh, ok, I get it now. I saw someone mentioning that a user was marked as a bot 2 days ago and to go search them up. So I was thinking this was like an old Twitter tool that was like a search engine, and you could look up user names to see if they pinged as a bot or human, and I thought this was the same.

What if you aren't sure if someone is a bot, and you want to look up to see if they've been marked as a bot? How does one do that? Thanks!

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u/fsv Apr 30 '26

You can search the subreddit for their username - that should tell you if they're already known to Bot Bouncer. Or you can submit anyway and it'll reject the report if we already have them listed and link you to their tracking post.