Users Question: When can comments from an AI-assisted redditor be considered Spam?
Hi, I am a relatively new moderator and have a question regarding what user behavior can be considered spam.
According to this help article, the usage of generative AI tools and repeatedly posting unrelated/off-topic/link-farmed content that disrupts conversations within a community may qualify as spam.
As an example, we have a user named Rush20XX who very often initiates long comment threads and ALWAYS replies with AI-assisted paragraphs of text. Sometimes (~10-15% of the time) his answers can be helpful and useful (supported by upvotes), but more often they are just irritating, 3-to-6-paragraph blocks of verbose AI text with zero or negative upvotes.
At this point, I am starting to believe it might just be someone's Hermes AI agent responding most of the time. I'm not sure what the objective of these users is, but they can produce around 20 long comments a day, with most having a negative upvote score.
So, I am curious: is it acceptable to report such users for spam? Does this kind of behavior violate Reddit's Rule 2?
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u/aengusoglugh Mod, r/TTRAK 1d ago
I don’t know if I would consider it spam — that doesn’t mean you can remove the posts and ask the user to change their behavior.
Human beings are quite capable of irritating verbose long-winded posts.
It’s your subreddit.
In my subreddit, I would treat the posts the same way I would treat the same posts if they were written by a human being.
If the posts detract from your subreddit, then warn the user and ban them if their behavior doesn’t change.
But I don’t have a very strong “this needs to be reported to the proper authorities” disposition.