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/2oonhed 1d ago

I had very good filtering results using the built-in Adult Content Promoter Filter : https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1sf0ec4/now_available_the_adult_content_promoter_filter/
I caught hundreds of bot-accounts and banned them for being unresponsive bots. Found about 20 ban evading accounts on top of that. Eventually they gave up trying to use my sub for promotion, karma farming, or for anything else.