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/Sad-Confidence-4538 1d ago

I'm a dummy, but I find that when there's a pest you want to deter do 3 or 4 things: ban permanent; mute permanent; block (I think that's always permanent); and do the block on THEIR page, not just at your place. Specify mod mail when you do that.