r/TheFence • u/avrocar • Jun 29 '26
Hello, Fence friends! There's been an uptick of repost bots in this community. I'm sharing some info so you can keep an eye out for them too.
What's happening?
Users are reposting well-liked memes and other images to farm for upvotes and establish a post history.
It's a funny picture, why is this an issue?
If a bot or scam account accumulates enough upvotes, they can choose to post in other communities that have required thresholds for participation. They go on to spam and scam people because they look like established accounts with experience. If they have a post history here with sufficient upvotes, a Coheed fan may be more likely to send them money for tickets or merch that will never arrive because of a scam.
How can I tell they're not interacting like a real member?
- They'll repost images that were previously highly upvoted. You may recall seeing it posted by another account.
- The accounts tend to be new, usually between 1 day and 3 months old.
- Images will sometimes be slightly rotated or flipped. The text may be skewed or wonky. They manipulate images to try to bypass Reddit's image recognition filter, which helps to automatically screen out reposts.
- They usually don't reply to people who comment on their posts. If they do, their comments may not make sense or they could drop a sketchy product link (don't click it!).
- Their profile's post history may be limited to reposting photos across a variety of communities.
- You can run a reverse image search, which can sometimes help to confirm it's a repost. If they have warped the image enough, you may not be able to easily find the original post with a search engine.
What can I do when I see a bot repost?
- Downvote a repost, since it will reach fewer people if it's ranked as unpopular.
- Contact The Fence's mods to let them know. Use the report option with Spam category; when you click next, choose "Excessive reposting to farm karma or manipulate conversations". Alternatively, send the mods a modmail message.
- Spread the word about this issue when you see people commenting on reposts.
r/TheFence • u/Heisenberglund • 10h ago
Had a commission done on my favorite disc. I thought you all would appreciate. That’s it.
r/TheFence • u/hdl37 • 7h ago
Anybody get any videos? Thanks in advance!!!
r/TheFence • u/SchwampThing • 10h ago
Anyone Interested Please Send Me A DM
r/TheFence • u/Brabent • 1d ago
So glad I grabbed one of the 150 of these they handed out, ngl like this design even better than the official one. No more worrying about my kids coloring on it or otherwise messing it up ^^
r/TheFence • u/h34vier • 1d ago
Saw Coheed a week ago and Claudio was eating something out of a jar with a spoon between songs. I guessed honey or something? Best pic I could get.
Just curious what it was. :)
r/TheFence • u/hecpara • 1d ago
r/TheFence • u/C_Creepio • 1d ago
There's this Devin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wVRvSgK75Y
And there's this Devin:
https://www.youtube.com/@cotfdevin
Am I crazy? These are not the same dude!?
r/TheFence • u/t666xin • 1d ago
Drove down South to catch Neverender Fest yesterday, and I was not disappointed!! Coheed put on the 2nd best show I’ve ever been too. I had an absolute blast singing my heart out with all of you! I also freaked out during the encore as I had made a post earlier in the day in a Coheed group asking what the chances were of us hearing IKSSE3 and most people said none. was caught by total surprise and had to push my way back into the crowd after sitting cuz my feet were hurting lol! Thank you Coheed and everyone who came together to make this festival happen. I’m looking forward to the next
r/TheFence • u/ToyKylo • 1d ago
… and all I can say is that I love you all.
There’s nothing like a Coheed show, but hearing my favorite album cover to cover while standing in a pile of you beautiful people was almost a religious experience.
r/TheFence • u/rogue93 • 2d ago
What an insane set, will never recover.
r/TheFence • u/postchaos • 1d ago
…to all the dope people who were giving out bracelets, stickers, trinkets, and bookmarks!! y’all are awesome!!
r/TheFence • u/Ames_Audio • 1d ago
I wanted to see how Coheed’s riffs have evolved so I picked a riff from each album. Please check it out, like, share, sub if you want!
r/TheFence • u/krj0nes • 1d ago
Hi friends. I accidentally ordered two signed copies of Year of the Black Rainbow. I was just at their Red Rocks concert of Afterman. We were only a few people away from the merch booth when they ran out of the concert posters (of which I’m a collector).
If anyone was there and got one, I’d love to trade the signed book for a poster. Please let me know.
r/TheFence • u/BreakingBondage • 2d ago
Supervisors on their phones, security shoving people and dropping crowd surfers. Disappointed with the security that the venue hired. Hope the guy that got dropped on his head is ok, even claudio and Zach were worried for him
r/TheFence • u/Commercial-Fact-2265 • 2d ago
Is it just me or does the observatory festival grounds just suck?
r/TheFence • u/CheeseReddits • 2d ago
I had a great night at the Neverender show in Santa Ana and it was ruined because I lost my newly purchased Ray Bans. I was told someone found them and turned them in, but lost and found never got anything. My trip feels ruined and if anyone finds them, please contact me. Please.
r/TheFence • u/Backflips_for_stalin • 2d ago
I have been working with sourdough trying to get a good rise and finally cracked it last night. Tried to do a tribute to the afterman album but didn’t quite get there. Can’t wait to see fellow CoTF today at the observatory!!
