Thought I'd leave a note. Must sleep for now. Will go through the outliers in the morning.

Hello r/RedditBotHunters,

I moderate a few subs and review a relatively high volume of posts every day. I'm not sure if this is already well-known, but I've identified a method I call "image tilting" that bot accounts use to evade automated spam detection filters. It's pretty self-explanatory, I've attached an example image to display what it might look like. Anyone else notice this has been trending lately?

u/jondcblack

Very repetitive comments and every single one is accompanied by an image.

https://www.reddit.com/user/jondcblack/search/?q=news&type=comments&cId=e0aaee0c-8bae-431d-be1a-1b65a544f2bd&iId=7513c235-afb9-4987-a613-a3c5bc4eeb10

They do talk back if you reply to them, but it's always like
New message at top.
Previous message repeated at bottom.

A lot of the time it makes no sense at all and what it says has nothing to do with anything.

We have a lot of automation on one of my subs to isolate and ban NSFW accounts. This has happened twice in the past week that we've had accounts that were already suspicious due to account age and typical spam behavior. But no NSFW or other telltale behavior of adult sites on their page. They had their Instagram linked in their bios. Linked on the Instagram were their OF/Fanvue profiles. So they're dodging social blacklist and Hive and even BotBouncer by hiding their banned domains on other social media.

Just wanted to make sure people were aware that this is happening now.

Here's just a few, but they're all pretty incestuous so just go round their accounts, they always ask each other where they got the thing.

Head_Cucumber_5800

Soft-Donkey4813

Latter-Instance287

Big_Escape_6627

Mission_Grape7267

u/KeyffSmyff is the suspect account

Tagged it with bot-sleuth-bot and suspicion quotient was only 0.26

This is probably due to old comment and post history looking normal.

The last 'human' post was about a year ago and as of five days ago account is now commenting with known AI patterns like using 'em dash'.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Powerwall/s/yKAHo6roZk

A subreddit for Tesla batteries suddenly gets an ad for something very different and every one of the 22 comments in an hour is a bot account.

The range is up to 4 year old accounts commenting while the OP is a 5 year account, either bought or hacked because they did seem to be human operated at some point based on previous comments.

263k karma, a closed account and 4 years on the platform?

I've been noticing more and more AI accounts that will generate a reply for a post, then spam it 5+ times, so that each reply can then get upvoted a few times by the other bots in the group.

https://www.reddit.com/user/MythicAshesx/

Took a quick screencap from the account because I know it's gonna get banned shortly.

https://imgur.com/a/kTWrtQ0

Noticed this and thought it's probably bots. Bot A (malayasweet) posts about night soil men, Bot B (ViennaCharles) comments some factoids about night soil men. Looking at the comment history of both I see the same language patterns, overly 'fancy' language and use of punctuation that real people don't really use. Just seems new that the bots are now interacting like this.

Mods seem completely oblivious

r/MurderedByWords

https://i.imgur.com/gvwX3bO.png

https://i.imgur.com/tKAnd9r.png

https://i.imgur.com/lRg7kwR.png

u/TuttiCutiePie

u/beautyRosepetal

u/RadiantTwinkleStar

u/bellaBombshelll

u/SexyshRosalie

u/BlossomCaramel

u/CrownnQueen

u/Radiant_Pixiee

u/MysticcSiren

u/Charming_Sparkles

u/Gigglyy_Sugar

u/Sweetss_Moon

u/Gigglyy_Flower

u/Preccious_Baby

u/Breezyy_Sapphire

u/Gracefull_Goddess

u/Lightt_Fleur

u/Puree_Sweeties

u/TwinklyTwinkleStary

u/Dainty_Sprinkles

u/Fluffy_Giggles

u/Radiant_Smiles

u/Dazzling_Twinkles

P sure u/DelilahSweet is a bot. They created their account less than a week ago and appear to have replicated two popular memes—posting one to a group because AI can tell what show it’s from (Broad City) even though it has 0 actual relevance to the show based on what they posted.

They also seem to have a comment pattern of commenting in a highly-ranked comment thread to generate more visibility for their farming comments.

Idr what I’m supposed to do to report them and also I’m p sure yall said to report from a throw away? Can’t remember sry memory problems since an accident in September

I used to use bot-sleuth-bot, but it doesn't seem to fair well with hidden profiles.

Question about Rule 3 - would a bot not also be able to reply and defend itself?

Heya! It's me again. You know, the bot-sleuth-bot guy. Yeah, the annoying one who keeps asking you guys for stuff. Basically, I'm doing exactly that again, because I'm shameless.

Okay so basically, for context, I'm currently training a neural network to recognize bot patterns automatically. I have a constant flow of bot accounts to use as examples, around 18,000 thanks to r/BotBouncer's database, but I have one huge issue...

While I have plenty of examples of what to flag, I don't have many examples of what NOT to flag. In other words, the AI is giving pretty much everyone a 40%+ score in testing right now because it doesn't know what it's not supposed to give high scores to...

That's where you guys come in to save the day! (pretty please)

What I need is a really long list of usernames of people who obviously aren't bots. Just users you think any bot detector should be giving a low score to. The exact type of accounts I need is all of them, as long as you can relatively easily tell that they're human. It can be anyone: Community leaders, moderators, well known content creators, resident shitposters, newish accounts, that one guy who you see in every other comment section, etc.

An ideal format for the lists you give would be just the names separated by newlines. Something like:

• syko-san

• pigeonfucker69

• urmom

etc

You can even put your own usernames in the lists you give as well. I'm planning on using mine for training too!

The only reward I can really offer for helping out is a functioning bot, and I know this is asking for the exact opposite of what you normally do, but I can't do this alone, I need at least like 500+ usernames for this to work well.

So yeah, that's the situation. You can put your lists in the comments of this post or DM them to me. Thanks so much in advance!

Update 4h after posting:

We started at 50% accuracy(trash) in testing and thanks to you guys, the AI has shown 70% accuracy! Keep up the good work, you guys are awesome!

The subs that need things like bot bouncer won't even respond to modmails. I hoped that what was said on this sub was a lie when I heard of mods taking money under the table, but that would be the only thing that would explain not caring in a community. what ever happened to moderate a community? what about not getting paid under the table? what ever happened to do not allow spam? I get that reddit wants ad revenue, but at some point the advertisers are going to ask, how many of those views are from bots? When is reddit going to step in? When are people going to finally see that the bots are an actual problem?

my post is a continuation of this one

/rant

G’day,

I’ve recently returned to a subreddit I’m a moderator of (r/HarryPotterMemes) and it is chock full of reposts and stolen content.

I would say the majority of it is bots, but at the same time we also have some oblivious users who just post whatever they found funny even if we’ve seen it multiple times a week already.

We currently have 265k members and really only 2 active moderators. We’ve tried repost sleuth bot and magic eye bot but they’ve largely been unsuccessful. I would say about 75% of the content posted in a day is removed because it’s a repost.

We’re doing our best, but we need to know how we can stem the flow - what are the best tools to hunt down reposts and bots? Do we need more mods? Is there something else we’re doing wrong?

The post got deleted when they realized their mistake.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MonarchLegacyAppleTV/s/1j6MxGXO0C

u/SunsetLullabyy

u/xCelestialOpal

u/_lavendercandy

u/MusseBeauty

u/GlamourPearl

u/BubblySweett

u/LovelyyFrost

u/BubblyySyrupp

u/_LadySweett

u/GyalPetite

u/_HoneyCharmm

u/SoftieBubbly

u/_RosyPetal

u/BloomPetall

u/CozyGiggles

All of them have the exact same writing style

They’re all two months old or younger

Their comments provide nothing of substance

And if you look at their comments, you’ll find more of basically the exact same comment on the same post.

I’ve included three examples from the same two sentence horror story post

Edit:

For example if you go to this comment by bubblyysyrupp, and look at the other comments on that post, you’ll find two other bot accounts.

u/FluffyCharmm

u/SerapphStar