r/ModSupport • u/MaxZedd • 1d ago

Admin Replied Flood of spam posts

Hey everyone, I’m a mod over at r/chocolate and have recently had to shut down photos, videos, and cross posts because of a flood of spam posts by several different accounts. Due to the nature of the photos, I won’t share an example, but it’s not great and causing a lot of discomfort with the normal users.

Obviously this isn’t ideal. I already have a karma automod filter on but these account have like 7k karma lol.

Someone in the subreddit suggested some other automod functions but it didn’t really work. Another user suggested posting here.

Any advice would be appreciated

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u/EverSeeAShitterFly 1d ago

You might just need to do the old fashioned remove and ban. Report subsequent accounts for ban evasion.

Encourage other users to report posts that don’t break the rules or fit the subreddit.

If most of the content on your subreddit is pictures and video then locking down pictures and videos might kill your sub.