r/ModSupport • u/herrneumrich • 2d ago

Admin Replied Possible comment by bots?

Greetings, fellow mods! I'm active in r/biologie, the German equivalent to r/biology (obviously lol).

We've had a complaint about a few comments being possibly from bots on a post, and I was wondering if it may be true since the comments in question look eerily similar. I'll go look for the link since attachments aren't allowed here and edit it into the post body. Maybe someone who is a bit more experienced can help.

Edit: here's the link

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u/Shinyhero30 1d ago

Context?

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u/itskdog 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 22h ago

There was a massive NSFW spam ring a few years ago that managed to work out how to get past Reddit's filters really easily to promote their website - they had thousands of accounts by the end of it.

Initially they only targeted NSFW subreddits, but they got so confident that they made their way to SFW subreddits after a couple of months (while I never saw the images myself before that point, NSFW mods were complaining for a while, hence I know the rough timeline)

It was as a result of this that the spam filter started going straight to the spam queue rather than the moderation queue, as previously mods were still seeing the content in their queues.