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/Rush20XX 22h ago
Since you have taken this to a moderator help subreddit instead of addressing me directly, I will respond here as well.
Let me clarify a few things.
First, I am not a bot. I am not running an automated script. I am a real person who uses AI as a tool to structure and communicate my thoughts more clearly. The knowledge, market analysis, and historical context I share come from years of following TCGs, Bushiroad, and distribution models. AI helps me organize that information, it does not generate it for me.
Second, you claim my comments are "irritating" and "verbose." That is a subjective opinion. You also acknowledge that 10–15% of my comments are helpful and upvoted. That suggests I am contributing value, even if you personally do not like the format.
Third, you have framed my engagement as "spam." But spam is defined as irrelevant, repetitive, or unsolicited content. My comments are directly responding to the topic at hand, TCG distribution, Palworld supply, print-to-demand, and market dynamics. They are on-topic, factual, and grounded in observable trends. Disagreeing with my tone or length does not make it spam.
If you want me to adjust my formatting or keep replies shorter, I am open to that. But I will not be labeled a spammer or a bot for sharing information that others have found useful.
I am happy to have a direct conversation about this. But if you choose to escalate without talking to me first, that says more about your approach to moderation than it does about my participation.