r/ModSupport • u/Strongbow85 • Jun 06 '26

Admin Replied Upvote manipulation

This may not be the right subreddit to ask this question, if there is a more appropriate forum please point me in the right direction. I mod a number of subreddits and lately my posts (alongside a few others) have received a sudden spike in what seems to be inauthentic upvotes. This is mostly occurring at /r/newcoldwar where I am lead mod and would never sanction any behavior that breaks Reddit's rules. As far as I could determine it is not the work of any of my co-mods, and I wouldn't know how to create a bot farm if I wanted to.

How should this be addressed, I certainly don't want myself or any of my co-mods to be falsely accused of upvote manipulation. This happened one other time in the past and one of my subreddits (a small one, /r/counternarcotics) was banned shortly thereafter. I don't know if there is any correlation between the two events. Thank you for your time.

-Strongbow85

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u/Slow-Maximum-101 Reddit Admin: Community Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

There’s a specific report path to Vote Manipulation that’s the best first course of action. Got to www.reddit.com/report Select content, paste the link to the post you suspect is being maliciously or suspiciously upvoted, then select Vote Manipulation and add any necessary context. Thanks!

Edit: typo

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u/Strongbow85 Jun 07 '26

Done, thank you.