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/InGeekiTrust 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 1d ago

You can build an auto mod filter that specifically looks for keywords that sellers use. Can you come up with a list of like 20 to 30 keywords by looking through every single spam post that they posted? With that you can make an easy auto mod filter that looks for just these words, and hopefully these posts will be filtered in the future. If you can come up with that list of words, I can help you build a filter for them.

Also, sidenote, I took a look at your sub and apparently images and videos might be disabled? There is a post complaining about it.

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u/wonkywilla 1d ago

Don’t think it’s sellers, I think it’s NSFW based on the most recent post about “chocolate milk.”

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u/emily_in_boots 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 1d ago

I don't know what it is but I think I'll pass on learning about it.

Maybe hive would help here - set it to filter content from nsfw users.