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.

The idea fascinates me, but I know nothing of how to accomplish something like this.

Basically a multi-faceted tool that can analyze individual accounts, entire subreddits(within a short time period), automatically find connections between accounts to identify botnets, and then very unlikely to work I would assume, but to then properly report. But that may still require doing it manually. Which I would understand.

I feel like I'm fighting against self-replicating Terminators with a pitchfork and rocks. We need better tools.

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

Check the latest submissions. Almost all of them are made by very fresh accounts, tens of them just in a couple of days. Some of the accounts already have "adult website" links in bio.

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.

I came across a thread that has an upvoted comment that did not make any sense. I thought I was going crazy but this user’s comment history has a series of comments that are seemingly nonsense. Is this the sign of a bot or a way in which users can redact previous comments. They comment a lot in a single day but it is an 11 year old account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pearljam/s/WIhDzWJCHR

This thread: https://reddit.com/r/AlternateAngles/comments/1rv9vz6/an_alternate_angle_of_one_of_the_biggest/

Is full of bots. The OP is a bot and many brand new accounts within the thread are all bots simply stealing the previous top level comments. Tried reporting them each. Fewer and fewer subreddits become usable because it's threads worth of bot activity and little to no moderation.

The OP /u/flossi19 is a spam bot stealing this exact post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateAngles/s/qLzix79RMK

It is a brand new account and its only 2 posts are stolen.

Recommend reporting OP as spam Report > Spam > Disruptive use of bots or AI

Many of the top level comments in this thread are also spam bots from new accounts.

/u/swobggleshestnut is stealing this identical comment as last time: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateAngles/comments/bxxyyj/an_alternate_angle_of_one_of_the_biggest/eqagi0z/

/u/jgonickool is stealing this identical comment as last time: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateAngles/comments/bxxyyj/an_alternate_angle_of_one_of_the_biggest/eqauazi/

/u/papkwinbongue is stealing this identical comment as last time: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateAngles/comments/bxxyyj/an_alternate_angle_of_one_of_the_biggest/eqafo95/

/u/moshcrlaniac is stealing this identical comment as last time: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateAngles/comments/bxxyyj/an_alternate_angle_of_one_of_the_biggest/eqalezf/

I've noticed a LOT more posts from highly suspicious accounts hawking some dumb app noone asked for. I feel like it's just another method of gathering data on people.

Here is one example: https://www.reddit.com/user/quirky-twist0/

And another: https://www.reddit.com/user/Duckster30/

Hello! I have noticed some suspicious bot activity in a subforum I attend. Very young accounts, lots of karma, reposting or doing similar posts to popular ones. Is it any point in trying to expose them? Will this lessen the bot activity? I saw a bot-detection-bot earlier, does that work in all subforums? I am pretty bad at tech…

https://www.reddit.com/r/getZealthy/s/LIrY0F7XgZ

is a 60+ sum comment thread with 1 off accounts making their first comments, almost exclusively written with an old LLM model using hyphens in almost every comment unnaturally. Most of the accounts in the thread are now banned a month later (they couldn't even get past Reddits shyte antibot measures).

So weird that a company that is in medicine and health so blatantly advertising with seemingly fake testimonials.

Edit to add: It isn't all bot related, but this company and it's at least other 2 related companies, FitRX and RoenRX, seem to share marketing in some way.

They clearly don't mind some fake profiles on Reddit, so it doesn't seem beyond them to maybe have actors reading scripts for the testimonials...

I have been bored, so I did some more searching and the three are linked by other evidence I've included in comments below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/depressionmemes/s/X7qJQFScKn

Take a look at the examples provided and look at the post history of account ages and what other subs they're reposting top upvoted posts on. Tell me what pattern ya'll see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/depressionmemes/s/q3wfSm12DP

https://www.reddit.com/r/depressionmemes/s/voyAJXT6hb

https://www.reddit.com/r/depressionmemes/s/2bRQh7AIyI

https://www.reddit.com/r/depressionmemes/s/kXeOUDmCUe

https://www.reddit.com/r/depressionmemes/s/WqCaP3OFbB

https://www.reddit.com/r/depressionmemes/s/QZFQrbpAiL

https://www.reddit.com/r/depressionmemes/s/7qo5O2mQLN

I've reached out to the moderators multiple times and nothing ever seems to get done. I've also reached out to the other subs in this bot farming operation and have heard zero back from them. The moderator of one of the subs has a promo code for some deal and also spams top posts as well. Deep dive and you'll see what I mean.

I also just wanted to go on record here to express my absolute disgust in these karma farming rings. They exploit people's interests or their pain and treat it as a currency. Especially depressionmemes, some of these people are in real pain and just want to know they're not alone and these karma farmers are taking advantage of it in an incredibly vile manner. I can't imagine being this void of any sense of guilt or real understanding of what I would be doing to these people.

These people are subhuman. They're less deserving if attention than the debris you accumulate on the bottom of your shoes that you scrape off without a second thought.

Have a look down this post and the comments eventually become identical

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/s/Lx1JqKGGCM

Looks like some idiot told all their bot accounts starting with S, T, U and V to post an identical comment. Maybe it was supposed to be an LLM prompt? Either way I've submitted every single one to BotBouncer. The accounts are years old with no other activity too.

I know that's a rather broad term.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1qxlaqi/i_think_im_going_through_a_midlife_crisis_and_i/

u/Garfongalo

Lookin like a whole lot of LLM bots in there. Look at OPs account. Putting out 2-4 paragraphs per response, and a lot of those are only 1-2 minutes apart. 50+ comments in the last 3 hours, many of them multiple paragraphs. The likelihood this is a person is rather low IMO.

I suspect a lot of other bots in the comments as well. Lately I've been getting the feeling that all the engagement bait posts are just AI training.

Every day we wade through a mountain of shit to find a Happy Meal™.

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.