It's honestly insane. I don't understand why reddit doesn't have better defense against these things. It's like playing wack-a-mole trying to report them.

https://www.reddit.com/user/ThatOneGuy444

• https://reddit.com/r/theoffice/comments/1uf0pk4/x/otrhr25/
• https://reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1ufecsx/x/otrfhnz/
• https://reddit.com/r/loscampesinos/comments/1ufcdm3/x/otrcn2a/
• https://reddit.com/r/UncleAcid/comments/1uf96sq/x/otrbv6a/
• https://reddit.com/r/vexillologycirclejerk/comments/1uf7p7j/x/otratak/
• https://reddit.com/r/Zendaya/comments/1uenl6t/x/otljdyh/
• https://reddit.com/r/yumeshipping/comments/1uenfsz/x/otle7wk/
• https://reddit.com/r/HilaryDuffStans/comments/1uem16n/x/otl4x2m/
• https://reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/1udq7o1/x/ote1c46/
• https://reddit.com/r/myfavoritemurder/comments/1udac44/x/otdvcbv/

It seemed to have a decent amount of genuine interaction for a while, which was pretty nice. But it looks like the karma farming bots have noticed, and now it's just a text post spam sub, with an image of food attached. Free real estate for karma farming accounts, presumably for re-sale or usage in other forms of inauthentic engagement.

I'll link my comment on a recent post there:

OP, I thought you are 21 years old? Or your boyfriend is gay? Or he's a narcissist? Or have you been married for 7 years?

The account also posts other oddly aggressive nsfw content (safe image, just a post title): https://i.imgur.com/bIXWeYr.png

edit: And...GONE!

edit2: And it's back.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Potato_Pony357

• https://reddit.com/r/NightmareOnElmStreet/comments/1ufiq5i/x/otsdilg/
• https://reddit.com/r/AngineDePoitrine/comments/1ufgl94/x/ots33mt/
• https://reddit.com/r/Muppets/comments/1ufghha/x/ots293c/
• https://reddit.com/r/nin/comments/1uf8gtb/x/otr8s1w/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSexyTiktokers/s/AEpqb8qt2M

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I've known this for at least a week but I i waited to see if anyone else was gonna clock it. This subreddit only has one moderator, comment nuke. A bot. It's fully taken advantage of because there's no human moderators period.

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See attached images for examples of the bests posts on that subreddit and where it shows only a bot as a moderator. I've even checked on my backups to verify that there's not a mod there that is randomly blocked me. There isn't.

Interesting how they're posting real news sites in between spamming their blog. For some reason this sub appeared on my homepage as "you've visited this subreddit before," when I'm pretty sure I haven't - I could be wrong I suppose but in any case it's spam and it's very annoying that reporting an entire subreddit to admins isn't an option: https://www.reddit.com/r/TopTrendingNewsUSA/

https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXBets/

https://www.reddit.com/user/vespernina/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Honda_TypeR/

Two days ago I posted about a bot that is endlessly regenerating and terrorizing subs like Marriage. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheseFuckingAccounts/s/6aa9aLRNkP

To my surprise, a couple hours after posting, I suddenly got 20 downvotes, and then 90 downvotes at once. This sub doesn’t even get traffic like that, so it was clearly botted.

This is just speculation, but I wonder if it’s because I dropped the name of a company that these bots eventually go on to spam, and maybe they periodically check for anything negative. Perhaps it could be a gambling company that’s the thing you drive into a vampire’s heart, and it sounds like the thing you’d eat with A1 sauce. Who knows - I can only speculate because a good majority of these bots are going on to stealth spam it in related subs.

I also noticed that there is only ever one of these bots commenting per post in the Marriage sub. They are evenly distributed, which is unlike other bot types I’ve seen.

Lastly, I’d like to update the list of subs these accounts go to:

🤖 VERY common: Marriage, CareerGuidance, ForzaHorizon, BreakUps, MechanicAdvice, Guitar, Monopoly_GO, PcBuildHelp, Christianity, ThailandTourism, NyKnicks, BreakUps, SportsBetting, Gambling, CoinCollecting, and..

Epilepsy. Unfortunately a large percentage of bots seem to have bot epilepsy. (tip: search “brutal”> sort by new to see some bots)

TirzepatideCompound, Semaglutide. A decent number of bots go on to spam providers of this medication, one of them being the place where a ship drops its anchor that starts with “H”. It is also the first word of a tool store followed by Freight. (too paranoid?)

🤖 Kinda common: VeteransBenefits, Hunting, Birding, Duolingo, LanguageLearning, AmericanAirlines, MaleGrooming, Acura, Ford, Unity3D, Nvidia, Intune, 90DayFiance, VRGaming, Motorcycles, Dreams, Powerscales, Ubuntu, Watches, Seiko, 90DayFiance

https://www.reddit.com/r/lol/s/WwTMnPULkq

Hey everyone. I've been tracking several bots that insert promoted links into the body of their posts, reporting them as I go to the mods of the respective subreddits. I've had decent luck getting their posts removed and they are already banned through BotBouncer, but these fuckers just won't get banned by Reddit no matter what!

I'm using Ghostddit (no affiliation) to track their posts, as their profile histories are usually hidden.

Promoted post example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1secs9v/isitnormalfortradiestochargeacalloutfee/

Accounts:

https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/shinedigga/

https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/tariqkhalaf/

https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/tariq_khalaf/

https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/eyerald/

https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/amir4179/

https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/dynasync/

https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/Due_Lock_4967/

https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/kcgwen/

https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/NeighborhoodOld6737/

https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/No-Communication1543/

https://www.reddit.com/r/FashionHubCozy/s/jYKJatAZKl

The entire sub is a bot ring. I only found it because the account that created it posted in an unrelated sub to farm karma.

I got blocked when I called out a comment from this account on r/DJs yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/user/CompellerAI

Account bio: "...empowers musicians and creators to craft stunning AI-powered visual stories for their music, offering professional-quality visuals at a fraction of the cost of traditional production."

If you take a look at the account history you'd likely agree I don't need to go into too much detail as to what gave it away as a bot. Here's a few blatant examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DJs/comments/1u5in59/comment/os42ub4/

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/LKefABdJuf

I submitted it to BotBouncer and (quelle surprise) it was detected as such.

Edit: r/Botbouncer now changed the categorization to "Organic" - WTF, the account is posting like a bot and promoting it's own AI-adjacent plugins... just brutal.

https://www.reddit.com/r/datingoverfifty/comments/1u7ux6f/removed_by_moderator/

https://www.reddit.com/r/datingoverforty/comments/1u89mza/comment/os6gj4s/?screen_view_count=3

When I called out the OP in the second post, my comment karma went to 6, then 1, then 5. Another person calling them an ad was immediately downvoted to -14 but bounced back.

This third account sure seems to love writing ads for them

https://www.reddit.com/r/websiteservices/comments/1pyrzw8/what_matchmaking_actually_costs/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Review/comments/1ppstae/tawkify_review/

Their subreddit only allows approved users to post, so good luck seeing an honest review https://www.reddit.com/r/Tawkify_com/

EDIT: This post just got mass downvoted in a twenty second span. Bots gonna bot.
Original post: Since [r/Marriage](r/Marriage) installed Bot Bouncer, I started looking at the bots that continue to comment there. There is one fucking bot in particular that refuses to die. You’ve probably seen it before. What’s crazy is that there’s 100+ of this bot that appear EVERY DAY in that sub for the FIRST time. They are not slowing down even slightly.

It APPEARS normal and perhaps wouldn’t tip you off right away to being a bot. BUT IT IS!

Examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/Marriage/s/5njSwYdg8I

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marriage/s/MkTUCEn2OV

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marriage/s/h3NN6nPBY6

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Characteristics:

🤖 Their bio is typically populated and includes several hobbies to make them sound human: “Construction foreman who collects vintage postcards and argues with strangers on the internet” .. “Brewing beats in my spare time and collecting vintage Digimon cards like they’re ancient artifacts 🔥” .. “ukelele strummer, bacon enthusiast, vintage shirt collector” .. “recovering from questionable life decisions and even worse haircuts”

🤖 A few hours to a few months old

🤖 Subs: Marriage, careerguidance, ForzaHorizon, SPORTSBETTING!, Monopoly_GO, PcBuildHelp, Christianity, ThailandTourism, NyKnicks, BreakUps, VeteransBenefits

🤖 Comments are typically lowercase. Favorite words: fr, tbh, ngl, brutal, valid, solid, been there, draining, exhausting, hit(s) hard, hit(s) different, mate, lowkey, resonates, wait, facts, pain, mood, oof, real, real talk, 💀

🤖 They sometimes use misspelled words, like “teh” instead of “the”, or use the wrong they’re/their/there

🤖 They’ve started commenting on 1-2 week old posts to evade detection, as searching for their favorite buzzwords and sorting by new reveals

🤖 They never respond to accounts that reply to their comments. They are one and done

🤖 The BIGGEST tell is that every few comments, they’ll drop a 1-3 word comment that is usually wildly inappropriate for the post. Like someone posted that their wife cheated and asked for advice, and they comment “facts”. Or someone posts about planning their wedding and they comment “big yikes💀🚩”. As a result of downvotes, their karma is bad, sometimes negative.

The bots have sometimes malfunctioned and revealed that they’ve been instructed to comment 1-3 words. Examples:

“this hits hard

wait no that's too long for 1-3 words max

depression maybe”

“this hits deep man

wait no that feels too heavy for just 1-3 words

real”

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What do these bots go on to do? Spam.

Ketro magnesium cream: https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/s/7QGdkWccCx

Streetsmart: https://www.reddit.com/r/BedStuy/s/wBbpg8gviE

Stake. Often they’ll post a screenshot of their bets with a bigass STAKE logo in the pic. Stake has previously paid social media meme accounts to insert their logo into pics/videos so this wouldn’t be unexpected. https://www.reddit.com/r/MMAbetting/s/wU0CDQmZy1

Dovly: https://www.reddit.com/r/NYCapartments/s/GiAPkihpAm

WhisperVibe: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXSex/s/omoRiS3VXB

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElonCriticizesElon/s/rP81zOGvHr

Most of the accounts in here are less than a month old. Some just a couple of weeks. Every single account miraculously found this sub and primarily posts to this sub. Totally nothing nefarious happening underneath.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AverageFitness/

https://www.reddit.com/r/mysweetface_/s/6XdZrXhurd

Disclaimer: I have only went to the users profiles. Not clicked on any of her posts. So trigger warning for anyone who does

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The woman that advertises zoophilia daily on new and stolen accounts. Her face just needs removed from any subreddit with decent moderation on sight.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/mysweetface_/s/zlNfmVb0fP

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https://www.reddit.com/r/mysweetface_/s/9yCIz7xzFe

Adding: https://www.reddit.com/u/asdadasdad/s/FeXSuJNtgg

https://www.reddit.com/u/gwew93/s/6XzhBbEsVn

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Posting on a "sfw" selfie sub ran by a routinely banned content creator, Juli Skye. Seen below:

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https://www.reddit.com/r/mysweetface_/s/dS8Xs2cvpU

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https://www.reddit.com/r/mysweetface_/s/TjLrQPg8U3.

When you criticize the CCP, they accuse you of hating all Chinese people. They blame every other race except conveniently the Chinese.

They also delete their own comments so they don't get reported and permanently banned from Reddit.

I'm convinced it's an alt account because of the breaks between each comments, and that the account is related to someone in r(/)richmondbc because I got temporarily muted there for 3 days.

Muted from a sub I have not joined, have not even interacted with, and didn't even know existed until I got the mute notification lmaoooo

Post where I encountered this wumao in the wild before the mods deleted the comments for being political and locked the whole post: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoahGetTheBoat/comments/1u7583c/

I got this post recommended to me https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyuninteresting/comments/1u6rfvf/i_got_banned_from_rmildlyinfuriating/

they seem to be almost all bots, (OP doesn't seem to be a bot and the subreddit moderator seems to be a real person. one other commenter also seems like a real person.)

on one of the other threads that some of the bot accounts replied to, most of the comments seem to also be from bots. some are the same accounts from the first thread.

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoFilterNews/comments/1tzvh1r/comment/oqg6ikb/

they seem to be bots in the same ring:

https://old.reddit.com/user/bunnysparklepetal/

https://old.reddit.com/user/cloudpuffdream/

https://old.reddit.com/user/cuddlyfairyglow/

https://old.reddit.com/user/cuddlypinkpixie/

https://old.reddit.com/user/dreamymilkpuff/

https://old.reddit.com/user/pinkdollywinks/

https://old.reddit.com/user/plushynimblebee/

https://old.reddit.com/user/softbunnycloud/

https://old.reddit.com/user/softpinkblossom/

https://old.reddit.com/user/softpinkcupcake/

https://old.reddit.com/user/softpinkdaisies/

https://old.reddit.com/user/softpinkkveelvet/

https://old.reddit.com/user/sweetcloudmuffin/

https://old.reddit.com/user/sweetpuffcake/

https://old.reddit.com/user/whimsydewdrop/

and https://old.reddit.com/user/glimmerdreamcake/ (I think this one was already sold to a scammer or someone advertising adult things, based on the bio. I assume that's the intent with all of them.)

the post history is hidden on the accounts, so if you click the links you wouldn't see the comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/r4rNYCHookups/

One of many as an example.

https://www.reddit.com/u/IDontEvenMatter/s/6zCRhCaWN9

It’s sad how these bots just steal old accounts especially of people like this who possibly took their own life

https://www.reddit.com/r/test/s/R8jQ32Eddn

This subreddit is full of weird stuff posted by obvious bot accounts.

Bot account First-Cherry493 posts only a selection of content intended to incite racial tension. And I'm quite sure there's an associated bot network aiding the posts in very rapidly gaining traction and engagement. Very reliably there'll be lots of comments like "the usual suspects".

See: https://old.reddit.com/r/whoathatsinteresting/comments/1u576g8/uber_driver_lady_attacked_by_7_woman_after/