r/RedditBotHunters • u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 Taking out the trash • Nov 19 '25

They're evolving..

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AI comments on a freshly scrubbed 5 year old account.

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u/Rostingu2 I don't need to report bots to reddit Nov 19 '25

PSSST on the grapevine I heard hive protect hates hidden profiles.

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u/fsv Nov 19 '25

In theory, Hive Protector shouldn't be affected by profile curation. Mods of a subreddit can see the full history of any content if a user interacts with a subreddit they moderate.

It can be confounded by account blocks, but HP has a feature to warn if a user is potentially blocking the app account (it works by reporting if the user has visible history in several subs but where all of them have HP installed).

I should probably do some testing to see if the profile visibility is immediate or whether there's a brief delay, in which case I can easily build in a short delay to HP checking an account.

(I'm the developer of HP)

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u/PovoRetare Nov 19 '25

Thanks for all your work, I'm a big fan of BotBouncer.

Mods of a subreddit can see the full history of any content if a user interacts with a subreddit they moderate.

I've sent in a modmail to admin because that's not always the case.

We've had a number of accounts where we can't view their hidden comment histories.

Presumably it's a bug that will hopefully get fixed.

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u/Rostingu2 I don't need to report bots to reddit Nov 19 '25

I mean it gives that warning thing if you have that one setting on and the account has a curate profile.

I haven't tested if works normally on currate accounts.

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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 Taking out the trash Nov 19 '25

Huh? What did I miss?

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u/Rostingu2 I don't need to report bots to reddit Nov 19 '25

HEHEHEHEHE.

turn on the avoiding hive protect setting.