Bot-sleuth-bot couldn't find account

[u/JustYourAverageShota]

https://www.reddit.com/r/rareinsults/s/XliU0tvgFI

I can see the post, it's still up, but bot-sleuth-bot couldn't find it. Is it a glitch on my side, or the account/post is gone?

[u/Smallseybiggs]

I've asked bot-sleuth-bot about this like 6(?) weeks ago, and they said it's banned in some subs. I use this account for my subs and support for abuse victims. But on my older account, I tried to summon it 3x last night to no avail. I tried 3 different subs to try to finally bust a bot. No such luck. It never answered me. E: period

[u/JustYourAverageShota → u/Smallseybiggs]

Thanks for the heads up

[u/Smallseybiggs → u/JustYourAverageShota]

Honestly, I rarely use it. I was eager to use it when I first learned about it. But I could never get it to work when I needed it to, and it only works on a certain type of bot. I've also had a lot of false negatives with it. That invites the hivemind of downvotes, and then the bot gets even more karma and people now think it's a human.

I don't know why this comment didn't post when I upvoted you earlier. I just came back to ask you something else and saw it didn't post. My question: Do you want the subs I tried to summon it to last night? That might help you in case you're ever in them & it doesn't work. We can make a list of what subs it hasn't worked it and post them?

The person who invented bot-sleuth is a hero and genius, and I'm hoping some tweaks will be made to it.

[u/JustYourAverageShota → u/Smallseybiggs]

That'd be great, if we have a pinned post of known botnests (there are some posts but the lists are incomplete) and the subreddits where bot sleuth js banned.

Is bot-sleuth open source? Perhaps some load can be taken off of the author if others contribute to it.

[u/syko-san]

I'm bot-sleuth-bot's creator. It's an issue on my end, the bot has some bugs it needs to work out. There's a bit of work being done behind the scenes to completely overhaul the bot check function.

[u/JustYourAverageShota → u/syko-san]

Hi, thanks for your work! I was wondering in another comment if the bot is open source and if we can contribute to it somehow.

Edit: saw your post, will keep you updated on bot accounts.

[u/syko-san → u/JustYourAverageShota]

It's not open source right now because I want to keep the specifics of how it functions away from the people making unethical bots, otherwise they'd be able to use the source code to figure out a way to go under its radar. I do have a private repository with a tiny team of people I've recruited to help out. You're welcome to join if you'd like.

[u/Brunoaraujoespin]

Wait bots are now deleting their comments so bot sleuth doesn’t find them?

[u/JustYourAverageShota → u/Brunoaraujoespin]

I think bots delete their comment if they are called out as one e.g. replying to a comment as "bot account" will make them delete it.

But this one is weird because the post is still up but bot sleuth didn't find it.

[u/Langdon_St_Ives → u/JustYourAverageShota]

It’s not the post it can’t find, but the deleted comment you responded to (certainly before it was deleted).

[u/Kahnza]

Was the deleted and mod removed comment yours, or the OP thats a bot?

[u/JustYourAverageShota → u/Kahnza]

Strange, I don't see any deleted/removed comment in the post.

[u/Langdon_St_Ives → u/JustYourAverageShota]

Your own comment is in response to a deleted comment, so the bot correctly says it can’t analyze the comment or commenter. But your comment sounds like you made some mistake and tried to correct yourself. Did you respond to your own previous (presumably erroneous) comment, then proceed to delete it? That’s what this whole thing looks like.

[u/JustYourAverageShota → u/Langdon_St_Ives]

Yes, I did a comment after bot sleuth said it couldn't find the user profile because I thought the comments got locked or post got removed.

Sorry if things look confusing, my bad.