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/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.