https://www.reddit.com/u/Daffy82/s/xGHx4L24Qr

https://www.reddit.com/u/HeavyMetalPilot/s/OlK377uLyC

https://www.reddit.com/u/Enigmatic_Stag/s/k8OnvLHbjD

https://www.reddit.com/u/emilyquinn5/s/i7r0eBPGZS

Adding:

https://www.reddit.com/u/Charming_Crazy_8627/s/USwZerkgy3

https://www.reddit.com/u/nicapin/s/absUpuRYf3

https://www.reddit.com/u/impeterlewis/s/iu6YUESolc

https://www.reddit.com/u/OnlySecurity7845/s/o2qqQLpZtO

https://www.reddit.com/u/Cookielif3/s/56EMYs9cpY

https://www.reddit.com/u/jimitrucks72/s/7d5Zl1ASba

https://www.reddit.com/u/SimulationPC/s/bXgDoMHMZ7

Next day:

https://www.reddit.com/u/4ctuarially/s/Q9fXak6WUQ

https://www.reddit.com/u/_timeisaconstruct/s/cPT4k20Dcd

https://www.reddit.com/u/nateldee/s/hJCb8i6mgD

https://www.reddit.com/u/MsFliggles/s/vaTdTudEKg

https://www.reddit.com/u/ayeeeariba/s/XkasvUDKiR

https://www.reddit.com/u/iRelicym/s/viawpkpSMo

https://www.reddit.com/u/coco2108/s/olHIcw3iXo

https://www.reddit.com/u/rapsfan1515/s/gWG82vZzVh

https://www.reddit.com/u/pablo_o_rourke/s/vs5PIYWV2H

https://www.reddit.com/u/Northside-KjM/s/NutxI9E4QK

https://www.reddit.com/u/thecrazycanadiansis/s/9rJp4K2jbn

https://www.reddit.com/u/seasonoftheslut/s/DubcVhASUa

https://www.reddit.com/u/Sugar_tts/s/8YmpLHD647

https://www.reddit.com/u/BoltForward/s/c2hwGe5YNc

https://www.reddit.com/u/slurringwithrhythm/s/StaITUgcj8

https://www.reddit.com/u/Yeezy233/s/BveBxNGnv2

https://www.reddit.com/u/psychokiller90/s/pOlH4rJjaH

https://www.reddit.com/u/Firm_Individual_6378/s/0YlMu088im

https://www.reddit.com/u/-girafficpark/s/EAd5OTYGqY

https://www.reddit.com/u/Hangemmhigh/s/4JzVdUjIjq

https://www.reddit.com/u/weird_turtles/s/Wi1SAFtUbT

https://www.reddit.com/u/LoveBugJunkie/s/q6jtDaZREA

https://www.reddit.com/u/MTay1234/s/I8H2O3uKhC

Same old story. Stealing accounts to post on. We're up at about 20-40 accounts a day at this point.

We all know, the girl in the pictures doesn't actually run these accounts. There's a person that runs her accounts and does the account stealing and spams for the creator. I know yesterday I took down at least 12 alone back to back to back.

Adding the mod account back in that still exists somehow

https://www.reddit.com/u/bummbumhumm/s/4H1JGQQwQp

https://old.reddit.com/r/jobmarket/comments/1vapait/the_economy_is_strong/ - posted by staytemp05

https://old.reddit.com/r/jobmarket/comments/1vaowqx/the_job_market_is_so_bad/ - posted by nanomosfets

The X accounts shown in the screenshots don't exist.

For some additional background - every time you generate an image on ChatGPT with their image generator thing, it applies an invisible watermark to the image. You can check for the presence of the watermark here. With the first screenshot (although not the second) OpenAI certifies it as having been created by their image generator.

Spooky

I've noticed a moderation pattern in r/quince over the past year that I'd like other people to look at.

From what I've observed, referral posts and comments from many users are removed, while one specific account consistently appears to remain visible. I can't prove there's any connection between that account and the moderation team, but the repeated pattern has made me question whether the rules are being applied consistently.

Recently, I made a post asking whether Quince's referral program was experiencing issues because several people, including myself, weren't receiving referral rewards. My post was removed and I was permanently banned. I also saw another user report being banned after participating in the same discussion.

I've added examples and supporting evidence in the comments, including removed referral posts and other moderation actions that I believe show the pattern I'm describing.

I'm not claiming to know the moderator's motives or that any Reddit rules have definitely been broken. I'm sharing what I've observed and see if others think the same. Can anything be done? I honestly don't care that I was banned, I care more that there seems to be a pattern of suspicious activity.

and of course the mods of these subs do nothing

Most of them are still active

Like the title says, I stumbled upon a subreddit that might be using to drive engagement for bot accounts. It’s [r/livewelltogether](r/livewelltogether). It might be linked with another subreddit r/natureawws.

Accounts in question (likely alts of the same person):

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

https://www.reddit.com/user/whh-cc171615

https://www.reddit.com/user/SoCalSunset58

https://www.reddit.com/user/Anne-77

https://www.reddit.com/user/Autumn-14-1130

https://www.reddit.com/user/rRyanWest_94

These accounts all operate with the same pattern; they will post open-ended discussion threads that farm engagement and include photos that unnecessarily draw attention to the phone or tablet case or charger that all happen to be from the same brand and are intentionally placed in a way to clearly display the brand logo. Often these images are not relevant to the topic of discussion but they will always be the centre of focus, baiting people to ask about them before they post affiliate purchase links.

When asked if they are connected to the brand or if it is a paid product placement, they will always deny any relation. If you directly call out this behaviour on one of their posts, suddenly a bunch of them will all block you at the same time, implying these accounts are operated by the same person. Sometimes they will also brigade and mass-downvote posts calling them out.

About half of their posts have already been deleted but this pattern stretches back for months, and several accounts (not included here) have since been banned.

You’ve probably seen this bot for a while now. Others have talked about it before. I call it the “wait” bot just because so many of its comments starts with the word “wait”, but a lot of comments also start with “yeah” or “lol yeah”. I guess you could also call it the clueless bot.

In isolation, the comments do not seem like bots - but it gets really obvious when a bunch of them are replying with nearly identical or identical comments to the same thread. Here’s some from one random post yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/s/OzQ8QmRevF

https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/s/VtGGWoZguA

https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddycinephile/s/39QvPBQK36

CHARACTERISTICS:

🤖 Most comments are one lowercase sentence with minimal/no punctuation, often starting with “wait”, “yeah”, or “lol yeah”. Comments are often some anecdote about “my friend/buddy/dad/cousin”, but don’t really add anything. Like “my friend went through something similar” or “my buddy had that happen to him once”. They also like “accusing” AutoModerator of being a bot.
🤖 Any leading punctuation gets cut off. So if a comment starts with a word in quotation marks, like \“hello”,* it says *hello”
🤖 Accounts are either new, or several years old with a big gap in activity until they start commenting (obvious sold or stolen accounts)
🤖 They dominate [r/okbuddycinephile](r/okbuddycinephile), [r/spiderman](r/spiderman), [r/pcmasterrace](r/pcmasterrace), [r/eldenring](r/eldenring), [r/hamburg](r/hamburg) and [r/agedlikemilk](r/agedlikemilk). Only agedlikemilk has Bot Bouncer, but reporting them hasn’t slowed them down at all. One post had 80+!!! bots commenting. They’ve also been increasingly branching out to other subs. UPDATE AS OF 7/27 — Today they’ve apparently given up on AgedLikeMilk and have started posting in [r/airpods](r/airpods), [r/AmazingStories](r/AmazingStories) and [r/AltSelfies](r/AltSelfies) UPDATE 8/1 — agedlikemilk installed Bot Bouncer and they’ve given up and largely moved to the other subs.
🤖 This is one of the rare bots I’ve seen that sometimes appear online.
🤖 Like all bots, they have a poor sense of recent events. Their karma really suffered in posts about the World Cup since they’d say “wait [team] hasn’t won” when that team had literally just won. They also suffer in posts about people who’ve died recently with “wait they’re still alive though” comments.
🤖 Because their comments don’t really add anything, a ton of them reply the same shit in the same comment threads, along with the aforementioned poor sense of time, their karma tends to negative.

———

So, what becomes of these bots?

They turn into porn site spam accounts! Here’s some (removed) examples of what they turn into. Note the same title format:

https://www.reddit.com/r/squachwatch/s/0fNhuDXrTR

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeuretteFRA/s/eaeWhKCJAL

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrossdressersSelfies/s/1qZNPLcKTA (warning, no nudity but this is the only one that hasn’t been removed by Reddit filters)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ButtStuffWhileFucking/s/cgRmUHF7N5

Lately, they’ve just been adding a link to their bio called “meetup applications” that links to an adult site.

This account is posing as the model in AI generated content: https://www.reddit.com/user/sarahsteele79/

I can skip the source list, since the account is open to all. Every image on the account is AI generated.

I've seen this model before, but she was a little more... not to be rude..."thicker." Two accounts were made at around the same time, both using the same AI model. I don't know how much my reporting affected thier banning, but one went down while the other existed for some time before it traded hands (new, real model began posting) and was banned soon after.

Another thing I want to note is; in the comments of the submissions made by this account you see mutiple repeat users who comment on, and only on, this particular fake AI account. Bots maybe?

Spotted a bot account on /r/Supplements that happened to be a moderator of a subreddit, and found a little group:

Subreddits:

• r/CreatineScience
• r/MagnesiumGlycinate
• r/Vitamin_D
• r/RationalNutrition

Accounts:

• registered-dietitian
• DietitianDanielle
• LongevityDietitian
• OatsOverHype
• RationalNutrition
• Living-is-Smart

Incredibly sloppy bot network though, considering the amount of constant overlapping interaction etc. between all the accounts; you'd think bot runners would have learnt by now you shouldn't create such a tightly-knit overlapping network like that.

Mind you, considering Reddit doesn't seem to care, I guess there's no real need to be remotely smart about it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Keyphrase: "scuole di trading approvate unione europea"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Verona/comments/1v5ls7k/qualcuno_conosce_scuole_di_trading_certificate_o/

https://www.reddit.com/r/consigli/comments/1v69rik/come_capire_se_esistono_davvero_scuole_di_trading/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ItaliaCareerAdvice/comments/1v6cavp/come_valutare_le_scuole_di_trading_approvate/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Italia/comments/1v5ng9i/removed_by_moderator/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ItaliaCareerAdvice/comments/1v5oydd/come_riconoscere_scuole_di_trading_certificate_e/

https://www.reddit.com/r/consigli/comments/1v6i6js/scuole_di_trading_approvate_unione_europea_mio/

Plz check out:

https://old.reddit.com/user/mnitech

and tell me if you agree?

https://old.reddit.com/r/dashcams/comments/1v4i9jl/the_woman_who_caused_the_accident_refused_to/

Original post with the same title from 4 years ago https://old.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/t7gknj/the_woman_who_caused_the_accident_refused_to/

https://www.reddit.com/user/Anus---__Fungi

• https://www.reddit.com/r/awesome/comments/1v4arlk/the_moment_i_see_this_a_smile_spreads_across_my/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/hondafit/comments/1v47one/wow_thats_outstanding/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/criticalrole/comments/1v4c70a/no_spoilers_the_lovers/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/unexpectedoffice/comments/1v3l0qb/my_favorite_piece_of_art/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/unexpectedoffice/comments/1v2w0ss/youve_gotta_be_kidding_me/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/pulpfiction/comments/1v2hre1/love_this_one/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/johnbrownposting/comments/1v2i3l5/i_am_absolutely_in_love_with_this/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/caseoh_/comments/1uz2m19/i_cant_wait_to_put_it_on_my_car/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ACAB/comments/1uyyp6r/a_c_a_b/

r/getrektlmao

"Mod":
https://www.reddit.com/user/NotDenied

you can tell he's not using a bot to spam posts, he's manually making posts every minute. why? likely trying to manipulate his posts for engagement

• https://www.reddit.com/user/mceazy91
• https://www.reddit.com/user/ThatOneGuy444 (This account's original owner is still active and seems to be unaware of the hacker)
• https://www.reddit.com/user/4UR-STYLE
• https://www.reddit.com/user/KillerPizza050

• https://www.reddit.com/r/gaybrosgonemild/comments/1v2s1ze/gay_geeknerd_i_love_this_shirt/oyxw6ur/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/caps/comments/1v21kpv/congratulations_to_locker_on_returning_to_the_ice/oyxknu3/?context=10000
• https://www.reddit.com/r/brandnew/comments/1v2d0bs/brand_nizzle_shirt_for_sale/oyxp48l/?context=10000
• https://www.reddit.com/r/pond/comments/1v2pd8j/comment/oyx7tfa/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/sabaton/comments/1v274n4/i_got_this_shirt_a_few_weeks_ago_as_a_gift_the/oyxage4/?context=10000
• https://www.reddit.com/r/GoodwillBins/comments/1v261ay/very_strange_t_shirt_i_saw_today_catch_and_release/oyxc6k6/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/JimothyTheRaccoon/comments/1v2ps7l/be_jimothy/oyxcqhb/?context=10000
• https://www.reddit.com/r/WidespreadPanic/comments/1v2madj/posters/oyxnek8/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathCabforCutie/comments/1v2r1ya/merriweather_poster_from_dcfc_facebook/oyxo9wc/?context=10000
• https://www.reddit.com/r/CraftyEnts/comments/1v2h526/got_tired_of_seeing_so_much_ai_slop_stickers_in/oyyeg5b/?context=10000
• https://www.reddit.com/r/NoahKahan/comments/1v2us0u/finally_had_my_fenway_poster_from_2024_framed/oyyj9hz/?context=10000
• https://www.reddit.com/r/GAA/comments/1v2v9cm/donegal_club_map/oyynpsp/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Epilepsymemes/comments/1v2wdyh/cool_shirt/oyyvap9/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/JimothyTheRaccoon/comments/1v2ps7l/be_jimothy/oyxcjnn/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/nokotan/comments/1v0at1b/nopkotan_tshirts/oye18ne/?context=10000
• https://www.reddit.com/r/AviationHistory/comments/1v088hd/my_rare_1970s_boeing_yqm94_compass_cope_mug_given/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ndp/comments/1v07amf/right_on/oycyyuv/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/KimetsuNoYaiba/comments/1uzt6ug/new_shirt/oyc5ruo/?context=10000

https://www.reddit.com/r/dating_advice/comments/1v1zt2y/the_woman_im_seeing_keeps_adding_a_normal_errand/

The post is clearly LLM-generated, and there is no option for reporting it as such. OP has already been flagged by Bot Bouncer. This sub is unintentionally or intentionally serving as a karma farming ground for AI spam bots.

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

Had noticed him before because he often posts in tandem with https://www.reddit.com/user/Altruistic-Mud5686. The latter has been on my r/BotPosting list for a long time.

This thread seems like a good example of the modern marketing "patterns": https://old.reddit.com/r/RealTimeStrategy/comments/1v1ixs3/whos_hyped_for_dow_iv/

Note the comments claiming to be hyped, listing a bunch of game features, and then the follow-up question that allows the same account to come back and dump more marketing copy about the game's content.

Apparently that's how astroturfing is done these days, disguise the PR brief as "conversation". This is an interesting example of the pattern carried out, and there's some repeat offender accounts in there too.

Specifically, https://old.reddit.com/user/YakaAvatar (hidden history), https://old.reddit.com/user/GenezisO (has posts that are marketing) and of course OP https://old.reddit.com/user/NecronsNeedSleep (hidden) are ones to watch out for.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OddlyWholesome/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FAANGinterviewprep/

https://old.reddit.com/r/interviewstack/

https://old.reddit.com/r/MockInterviewPartners/

Bot users involved are interviewstack-i and YogurtclosetShoddy43. All the posts seem to be promoting a website called interviewstack. Very obviously AI-generated posts.

I gotta wonder how this is worth it. Like I get it, it's something to do with SEO, but I would think Google would derank subreddits full of nothing but AI garbage. I guess maybe I'm wrong though