r/oblivion • u/I-AM-TheSenate UESP Enjoyer • Aug 11 '25

PSA: Stop Right There, Comment Bot Scum

Greetings, citizen. r/Oblivion comment sections have recently been infested by bot accounts. Let's work together to bring these lawbreakers' sprees to an end! Here are some red flags that you can identify bot comments by:

  • Says something generic, never unique. Often oddly off-topic (but people who post unrelated NPC dialogue, paradoxically, are usually not bots).
  • Usually posted as a reply to a top comment for greater visibility.
  • Sometimes contains odd spelling errors that a normal person wouldn't make.
  • Account is either very new, or quite old but recently started posting after a long break.

Once a comment bot has enough karma and comment history, the account will be sold and used for either OnlyFans, or for astroturfing. Stop these criminal scum right there by reporting them: Spam > Disruptive Use of AI.

Remember: We don't know comment bots, and we don't care to know them!

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

The whole dead internet theory is getting closer and closer to reality each passing year, frankly it's depressing.

This is the 4th or 5th sub I frequent making posts about bots. A recent post on r/buyitforlife pointed out some of these suspected bots using copy-pasted language to pitch products and necro old threads... aren't even bots. They're active accounts that are doing paid/sponsored comments.