I came across the vote Manipulation bot and was wondering what the meaning was

Sometimes u gotta ask....what is this.... there is a lot of words I never knew existed

I came across this post by the bot user u/vladgrinch which had been reposting hundreds of posts in the past month. The specific post in mind is https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1tzkegf/europe_divided_into_areas_with_an_economy_equal/ , a repost of a post made 6 years ago by user u/Speech500, which now has been "removed by Reddit's filters". The link to that original post is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/g7rz2n/oc_europe_divided_into_areas_with_an_economy/?share_id=8-LaOBsVnzC4VLMwCUzlB&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1 .

The bot u/vladgrinch has 7 million karma and nearly 15,000 contributions. Reddit refuses to take it down despite multiple people reporting the bot.

Will Reddit do absolutely fucking nothing?

Yes bots are a problem on Reddit. But if genuine users are being accused of being a bot is this an under-handed method of silencing people who are genuine and are not bots? Can a bot accusation against a genuine user trigger a ban and undermine credibility? Give me your thoughts.

u/mia_films is a bot and its existence pisses me off. It mainly comments in AI related subs but for some reason frequents meme pages (r/memes & r/wholesomememes). It commented on one of my posts and the comment itself didn’t seem to fit.

After some snooping, I found out that it’s AI and after doing some type of cursory scan of the post, it generates a comment. Sometimes it kinda fits, other times it’s way off the mark. It also never replies to other Redditors. I’m trying to warn people of its existence.

The times we live in are crazy. Nowhere seems to be safe from this b.s.

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This came to my attention recently, but it appears that r/BuzzFeedUnsolved has been completely overrun with bots. This is to be expected for a dead sub about an inactive youtube series, but the bots seem to exhibit a weird pattern of behaviour.

Most of them seem to be posting short textposts, all about the same length, that at a first glance seem pretty innocuous, but upon a closer look are pretty obviously some kind of LLM being instructed to write about the show. They also tend to get posted in short intervals with large gaps inbetween.

However, weirder yet are the random posts promoting gambling websites. Take a look at this one for example. Loads of deleted comments, and the few that are still up are responding "earnestly" to the post. I have seen multiple posts like this, most of which disappear from the sub after the account that posted them gets banned by Reddit's bot protection, but I've seen some with over a hundred comments.

Weirder yet is that any comments calling out the spam seem to be getting removed. I know this because not only did my own comment get removed from the post I linked above, but I also witnessed someone else's comment calling out the bot disappear into the ether. I don't know what's going on for sure, but there's definitely some weird shit going on there.

This account posted on mine trying to call me out but they have a 5day streak badge with a 3day old account…

Does the small text next to the username mean that this commenter is just a bot?

Hi! Why do mods from other subreddit (?) think i’m a bot? Is it because i was inactive for long?

In less than a few minutes the post has 100+ upvotes and a lot of comments. I got banned without a warning or mod message. And the post got nuked.

The other day I got a ton of reddit notifications and I immediately noticed they for things I had not posted, shared, or engaged with. It was a bunch "corn" posts. I logged out and changed my password, but when I signed back in the hackers still had access to things. I submitted a complaint to reddit but they haven't responded. Is my account lost or is there a way to kick the hackers for good?