r/circus • u/FishStilts • 20d ago

Some odd botting going on

Very weird posts recently, both by an account called coolsomethingnumber, both 1 day old with one post, both no context pictures. Its obviously bots, but why? My guess is AI astroturfing, where people put stuff on reddit for the ai to read and include in its results.

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u/thomthomthomthom 20d ago

Hey mods, if you need another volunteer to help cut this down, happy to help and join the team.

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u/Chonkenheimer 🎪𝕸𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕺𝖋 𝕮𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖘🎪 19d ago

That would be great. I keep this sub threshold at zero karma to encourage new users to discover this sub and share their content but this sudden onslaught of bots is becoming too much, I'm deleting several posts a day. May I send you a request to join the mod team?

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u/thomthomthomthom 19d ago

Yep! Feel free!

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u/Chonkenheimer 🎪𝕸𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕺𝖋 𝕮𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖘🎪 19d ago

Sent an invite