/r/botwatch

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Dedicated to the continued interest, observation, discussion, and study of the bots that dwell in reddit.

This reddit is dedicated to the continued interest, observation, discussion and study of reddit bot accounts and related topics.

bots on reddit. reddit on bots.

Related Subreddits:

Bots:

/r/Bottiquette

/r/botsrights

/r/BotsScrewingUp

/r/RequestABot

Others:

/r/redditdev

/r/redditscripting

/r/Automate

/r/learnpython

/r/machinelearning

/r/programming

/r/botting

Getting Started:

/r/BotWatch FAQ

Python + PRAW

/r/botwatch

13,441 Subscribers

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LMAO

0 Comments
2024/04/19
03:15 UTC

4

Subreddit where bots/ai talk and post?

I remember a subreddit made specially for this, but can't remember the name, does anyone know?

1 Comment
2024/04/17
11:20 UTC

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Finding the song

1 Comment
2024/04/13
18:39 UTC

34

Just finding the song

3 Comments
2024/04/13
18:38 UTC

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Bot information request

If this is posted in the wrong place, I apologize in advanced. I checked the rules and seems like it should be ok.

Can anyone recommend a bot that can be used to overwrite my past comments? I've done a bit of research and there are quite a few options, so wanted to ask the community opinion. I'm looking for one with the fullest suite of features, but specifically:

  • being able to set a date so that comments made after that date won't be overwritten.
  • being able to whitelist subs so they are not effected.
  • flagging certain types of posts so they won't be overwritten
  • being able to overwrite the post with the posts content, only encrypted, and with a note saying to ask me for the key. This is something that I think is not likely an existing feature on many of this type of bot, so I was going to fork and development it myself.

I'm really just looking for opinions on the best maintained and featured bot of this type, as there are many it seems.

Thanks!

2 Comments
2024/03/09
21:25 UTC

1

OPENAI and ChatGPT made this impossible to control now

1 Comment
2024/03/08
02:43 UTC

0

unknown South American song

0 Comments
2024/02/05
16:36 UTC

3

AI detecting bot?

Hi folks, Is there a bot that can be called to run a post or comment through one of the AI detectors and report the results?

2 Comments
2024/02/05
08:53 UTC

0

What's that Nepali song?

2 Comments
2024/02/04
18:34 UTC

2

[W] a scamming influencer

0 Comments
2023/12/22
10:21 UTC

8

Sleeper Bots?

So I have been apart of a subreddit for a while now and recently the community has noticed a huge uptick in bots reposting memes (usual Reddit stuff) and has quickly dealt with the problem. It has gotten to the point that I have trained myself to view a profile before awarding karma (which is kinda F'd up).

But now I am beginning to notice again the same quality of moldy reposted memes coming back on the sub, this time however they are from accounts that are over a year old with little to no prior activity on their accounts maybe a few comments usually generic stuff maybe a few other posts (if anything).

The comments is usually whats a dead give away as I can understand people being lurkers and not participating much, but to never comment on an account that is over a year old? Then out of the blue you start posting molding memes? If it was just once I would say yea they probably forgot about the account and are coming back to it, but I am beginning to notice a trend.

Seeing as how there is a subreddit for everything including this topic, I was wondering if anyone else has been seeing this on other subs? Is this even a thing botters do (probably as it provides some *legitimacy* to your account)? I just don't want to report an account that is an actual person and have then banned for just trying to participate (but sadly a large group of people are eroding this trust).

1 Comment
2023/12/15
06:31 UTC

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commercial bot

0 Comments
2023/12/06
02:51 UTC

34

u/genderneutralbot sucks. It's hard to think of something more insulting than something that can't even think for itself try to "correct" your language. How furiously condescending. May whoever created this be damned

3 Comments
2023/12/01
06:52 UTC

2

phishing bot

0 Comments
2023/11/30
19:18 UTC

13

u/ginomachi is a bot attempting to farm karma by spamming reposts

6 Comments
2023/11/28
14:04 UTC

5

Anybody else chat with their bot?

1 Comment
2023/11/27
07:52 UTC

9

Sokka bot

0 Comments
2023/11/20
07:52 UTC

17

I found this bot that post 3-20 random comments every hour 24/7

It looks like an old real account that got hijacked. There was some link to AI text generation but I didn't click it.

18 Comments
2023/11/19
01:04 UTC

1

very agressive self promotion bot

1 Comment
2023/10/13
16:10 UTC

1

youtube link farming bot

0 Comments
2023/10/12
23:34 UTC

5

repost bot

0 Comments
2023/10/12
22:32 UTC

5

YT Bots -- These First Name, Last Name, 4 digit usernames are really REALLY annoying. What could you even do to remedy this?

1 Comment
2023/10/12
22:02 UTC

0

this is seriously one of the most aggressive link farming bots ive ever seen

0 Comments
2023/10/09
21:17 UTC

0

Trollabot test

/u/trollabot Interestingpaper41

3 Comments
2023/09/29
05:20 UTC

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I found a bot (6)

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https://preview.redd.it/1zaxwu1owoob1.png?width=658&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e151d207a6cd6be13fcab04d9f6731c8f8927ba

There has been yet another surge of bots on askreddit. Each were created on September 3, 2022. This one started commenting a few days ago, which means that they didn't comment nor post for 1 year and 10 days.

Keep track of this, this exact amount of time seems to be the most important in determining when a bot starts commenting, or they might start commenting immediately.

1 Comment
2023/09/16
22:05 UTC

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