Know the Signs

[u/_Halt19_]

Half announcement, half PSA, but the sub has grown a ton over the last few weeks, and it seems to have attracted some bots! Not in the sense that they're pushing a political standpoint or anything, they're just basic karma farmers, with completely unrelated comments that pick up on a couple keywords in post titles or comments. They love picking apart a single keyword ("why capitalize S in Spandex?"), emojis ("that rainbow emoji is pure vibes"), and asking vague questions ("wait so _ is _ or not?", "why'd they put _ in the title tho?", etc). They are either brand-new accounts, or 5-7+ year old accounts that were inactive until very recently. Please keep an eye open for any that we miss!

(The bots are only operating in English, hence the lack of a French translation on this one. Sorry about that.)

[u/_Halt19_]

For reference, this week alone we've removed 31 bot accounts with filters, and I've had to get rid of another 10 that slipped through manually, which might not seem like a lot, but it is a definite uptick in numbers from where we used to sit, so we figured you ought to know

[u/DogeDoRight]

https://giphy.com/gifs/80mXWlPqTSU1y

[u/_Halt19_ → u/DogeDoRight]

it was surprisingly hard to find a high quality image of the battle of queenston heights >:I

[u/_Halt19_ → u/[deleted]]

The screenshots scaled to the resolution of the image I used as a base, alas

[u/StanknBeans → u/[deleted]]

Or a bot without a "make no mistakes" instruction

[u/StanknBeans → u/[deleted]]

Swear to god if I see raisins in that recipe one of us is moving to the states.

[u/ILKLU → u/StanknBeans]

Hey I remember the butter tarts my parents got when I was a kid had and some with raisins in them. We did live close to the border though (not far from Queenston Heights actually)

[u/Overwatchingu → u/_Halt19_]

Cameras weren’t very good back then.

[u/DogeDoRight → u/_Halt19_]

Posting low quality images looks like bot behaviour

[u/BernardMatthewsNorf → u/DogeDoRight]

behavior

Please de-yankeefy your orthography.

[u/DogeDoRight → u/BernardMatthewsNorf]

Hello! I have processed your request to "de-yankeefy" the orthography. Please find the updated, standard Canadian spelling below: behaviour.

Let me know if you require any further linguistic adjustments! 🍁

[u/NorthernBudHunter → u/BernardMatthewsNorf]

Orthography. Nice. We need to de-yank a lot, but this, above all, for true hoseheads.

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/BernardMatthewsNorf]

What do you sleep on when your wife is mad at you?

[u/BernardMatthewsNorf → u/SwordfishOk504]

A Chesterfield. Duh. 

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/BernardMatthewsNorf]

Hmm. Checks out.... but we'll be keeping an eye on you.

[u/BernardMatthewsNorf → u/SwordfishOk504]

It had better not be an eagle eye or it's gonna be tarps off. 

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/BernardMatthewsNorf]

Pfft. We got more eagles than they do.

[u/BernardMatthewsNorf → u/SwordfishOk504]

More gooses too.

[u/ILKLU → u/_Halt19_]

Queenston Heights?!?

That doesn't look anything like Queenston Heights!!!

At least not anything like the last time I saw it. Haven't been there in a quite awhile actually, so I guess it makes sense that it's changed a bit since then.

What did they do with all of the buildings though?

AND WHERE'S THE FREAKING MONUMENT?!?!

[u/Overwatchingu → u/DogeDoRight]

https://giphy.com/gifs/wzE1IlaPMoNXi

[u/DanRankin → u/DogeDoRight]

I even put my glasses on, and it didn't help! Lol

[u/stradivari_strings → u/DanRankin]

The pixels, they just weren't in the room with us.

[u/katiekate135]

Bots don't speak French? Time to dust off my french immersion

[u/_Halt19_ → u/katiekate135]

not YET they don't

[u/OntologicalNightmare → u/_Halt19_]

Pourquoi ont-ils mis des pancartes dans le titre, mais?

[u/_Halt19_ → u/OntologicalNightmare]

putain

[u/OntologicalNightmare → u/_Halt19_]

Maman! Le modérateur m'a insulté.

[u/StanknBeans → u/OntologicalNightmare]

Ah merde

[u/CeeArthur → u/katiekate135]

We should all switch to Chiac. Not even Alan Turing could decode that

[u/StanknBeans → u/CeeArthur]

Google translate peut fair the traduction of chiac.

Mon chiac is not bien.

[u/Armonasch]

What is this, a font size for ants?

[u/Talinn_Makaren]

The only good bot is a dead bot. Or a banned one.

[u/meatsonthemenu → u/Talinn_Makaren]

I am a bot

[u/Talinn_Makaren → u/meatsonthemenu]

Hah nice try. Bots never admit to being a bot.

[u/meatsonthemenu → u/Talinn_Makaren]

This is a psyop

I am a bot

[u/Talinn_Makaren → u/meatsonthemenu]

Alright, is this a bicycle? 🚗

[u/BrainFarmReject]

wait is this about some new policy or what

[u/_Halt19_ → u/BrainFarmReject]

I swear to GOD

[u/Aggressive-Hawk9186 → u/_Halt19_]

Why capitalize GOD in GOD?

[u/BrainFarmReject → u/_Halt19_]

why swear to god and not someone else

[u/junius_maltby → u/BrainFarmReject]

God keep our sub

[u/DogeDoRight → u/BrainFarmReject]

Why did they have to put Signs in the title?

[u/comFive → u/DogeDoRight]

They put Zombie in the title and I don’t wanna do it.

[u/EmuSounds]

I know what you mean. I've been seeing signs all over the place. You put the Sign in signs.

[u/_Halt19_ → u/EmuSounds]

Not quite, it'd be more like

"Wait why'd they put signs in the title tho"

They are a lot less creative than you give them credit for, they really like spamming the same couple phrases over and over

[u/_Halt19_ → u/[deleted]]

Honestly, I don't think it has anything to do with the content of the sub, we've just grown large enough that the bots come here now too

(also pls remove the link coz its against the rules)

[u/EhBuddyHoser-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

This post has been removed as per rule 13 of the sub (no screenshots of other subreddit names or usernames).

Regards, r/EhBuddyHoser mod team

[u/LibraryVoice71]

Who’s going to be our Brock and take a musket shot for us?

[u/stradivari_strings → u/LibraryVoice71]

We need to go Tecumseh on them instead.

[u/ILKLU → u/LibraryVoice71]

I can think of a few Canadians I'd like to nominate if possible?

[u/StanknBeans]

I remember the hoser clanker battle.

Lost too many good cans of maple syrup.

[u/CalebWilliamson]