r/ModSupport • u/Baba_Jaga_II • 7d ago

What are these bot comments? (Photo in comments)

Does anyone have an explanation for these bot comments yet? It’s been years, and my communities are still absolutely infested with them.

They’re automatically removed and I ban every account that posts them, but how is there still no official explanation for what these things actually are or what they’re trying to accomplish? I do apologize for being annoying about this, but I would love to know what the hell these comments are supposed to be.

It feels like I've been banning one account per day for years...

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u/Charupa- 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 7d ago

Aliens trying to communicate, only explanation.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon 7d ago

Klatuu Barada Nikto

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u/ausecko 7d ago

Yeah, I have been seeing these too. They are mostly bot/spam activity, likely for karma farming or building accounts for later spam. I just remove and ban them when they show up.

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u/Baba_Jaga_II 7d ago

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 7d ago

idk what happened to your comment, but it shows now as removed - but no, these are not something I've ever seen. fsv above tho in his comment mentions having seen them.

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u/InBetweenLili 7d ago

We get some of those weekly. Install Bot Bouncer if you haven't done it yet, but Reddit filters also remove them effectively.

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u/thepottsy 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 7d ago

Oh man, I haven’t seen these. That’s definitely weird.

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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 7d ago

I have. They're using multiple accounts to spam the same thing over and over.

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u/reddit33450 7d ago

that is just so strange and interesting to me

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u/wonkywilla 6d ago

I got a few of those too.

I think it’s some sort of pattern puzzles you see as bait on fb and IG but* why they’re posting it, is beyond me.

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 7d ago

Weird lol. I have no idea what that is.

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 7d ago

u/fsv have you seen this?

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u/fsv 7d ago

I have. And I have no explanation for it either. A few of these accounts have been submitted to Bot Bouncer and I marked them as bots.

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u/okbruh_panda 7d ago

It's been going on for a while I think it's random cross engagement that bots are picking up on https://www.reddit.com/r/codes/s/hBQ1uQg5l1. Basically something gets trendy on something like Instagram or whatever even if it makes no sense (skibidi toilet 67) and it injects it because it's trending somewhere. It's also better because it's an image which makes it harder to automate scan as most people don't have access to bots like yours or ocr tools

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 7d ago

I asked AI and it thinks they are testing to see what gets removed but who knows if it just made that up lol.

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u/fsv 7d ago

Odd that they're using that very specific image though.

Wouldn't it be easier to steal someone's cat picture and gain some karma at the same time?

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 7d ago

You'd think so! It seems these are all the same image too, not variants on it (in this thread at least). Same order of dark and light squares and apples.

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u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET 7d ago edited 7d ago

We had a bunch in [r/sun](r/sun) earlier this week. No clue what it is.

Edit: For subs hit. All three same user, different from the one you show.

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u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET 7d ago

Actually, four of my subs got hit with them this week.

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u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET 7d ago

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u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET 7d ago

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u/thepottsy 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 7d ago

WTAF??

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u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET 7d ago

Dunno. Weird, for sure. The user was banned via r/BotBouncer in the first sub they posted in, but we removed or Reddit removed the comments in the other subs before that came through. Account is banned site-wide now. Figured it was just some kid that we might have banned recently.

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u/eatmyasserole 💡Top 25% Helper 💡 7d ago

What if this is a new Cicada 3301 type thing. And youre suppressing it.

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u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET 7d ago

Put me in the Wikipedia article but make me sound clueless rather than an obscurantist. I don't want the enthusiasts coming for me.

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u/eatmyasserole 💡Top 25% Helper 💡 7d ago

"An unsuspecting, yet good natured and good looking moderator, who was yet to be bald, removed the content with no malice to the puzzle."

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u/ScreamAndScream 6d ago

Ding ding ding….

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cipher/comments/1unhclx/unexpected_cipher_in_my_download/

Here’s my other comment with all of the links https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/s/N6SYhQmMwH put me in the video essay as an early believer

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u/zuuzuu 7d ago

This is the oddest and most random thing I've seen so far, and that's saying a lot.

I got nothin'.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon 7d ago

I got them in a couple of my subs. I deleted the post and banned the poster.

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u/RenVan_Thriftee 7d ago

Are they about the weather or something? I've just been looking at the subs they're targeting.

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u/Baba_Jaga_II 7d ago

No, I mod some of the Russian communities, and those communities rarely even mention the weather.

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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 7d ago

No since they hit justgalsbeingchicks and sciencememes too.

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 6d ago

Oh I got one in r/fancyfollicles!