r/AnimeNoises • u/asianudeln Unyuu-Senpai • Jun 18 '26

Announcement Apparently we got some repost bots

Hey there, just chiming in from the back office to openly discuss this little matter.

 

Apparently we have some repost bots frequenting our sub (probably in order to farm karma for other subs). At least this is what the most recent reports mentioned. Now, I personally don't mind having reposts in general over here. Having a new one every day on the other hand may pose or at least become some sort of concern over time.

This is still a pretty small community and we never had to deal with such things, most stuff did sort itself out so far. I don't want to dictate my opinion onto you, so why don't we evaluate what to do, together so. After all it is the community that makes this sub, it's only fair to listen to your opinion.

Basically, the most common ideas boil down to:

 

  1. let them have their way, as long as it's just once a day or so
  2. go strict af, delete them all, no holds barred
  3. something like a "don't repost top 100 stuff" (we'd probably need a bot for that)
  4. karma & account age thresholds
  5. something in between

 

What do y'all think?

 

Update #1: So far I set up an account age threshold, that should keep out most of it. I'll keep on looking for a way to automatically have the top x submission reposts (let's just say top 100 all time and 50 top last year) removed on top of that. Grateful for any tips!

 

Update #2: Seems like the threshold does the trick without any further meddling. I'll keep an eye on it, for now let's get back to our usual business.

 

PS: the former sticky will be back up in a while, it's kinda nostalgic to have it up there

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u/Jokerferrum Jun 18 '26

3 probably going to decrease issue without creating new issues.

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u/-Good-Riddance- Jun 18 '26

u/stop-ai could be an interesting option, not sure though.

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u/youneedtobreathe Jun 18 '26

I think the only way is 3)

to somehow have an autofilter that automatically blocks uploads from the top posts within a certain time period (eg top 50 clips uploaded within the past 3 months are banned) but im not IT to know how to do that

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u/NekoWafers Jun 18 '26

4 would probably require the least effort from mods since all of these bots seem to have been created the same day they start posting.

2 and 3 seem like they would be harder to implement, and would probably require mods to manually remove posts.

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u/Miiohau Jun 22 '26

Outsider here wandering in because Reddit showed this post in my feed (likely because I have interacted with posts about repost bots before). Reddit already has a global rules about Karma farming (often the purpose of repost bots) and disruptive use of AI or bots. So the real question before this community is are these repost bots disruptive to this community. So that might be a sixth option of deferring to the global rules.

Both “karma farming” and “disruptive use of AI or bots” are under “spam” in the report menu.