The user is "thepatriotclubhouse".

Their MO is to post fake screenshots, with some sort of rage baiting, always having a link to their website (a scam, IQ test site).

They use screenshots so the link (to their website) doesn't get flagged by Reddit's filters. They let the posts run for a good while then delete it. They've been doing this since 2023 on that very account.

Example, live as this was posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1i6pyo9/instant_karma/

https://preview.redd.it/kql1iitgveee1.png?width=716&format=png&auto=webp&s=003da1186936a2f10ec616b8e2f057030bcdf27f

Other examples, already taken down:

• To prove your success was fully earned by being "top 87%"
• He's top 87% guys...
• EQ is just as if not more important than IQ btw.
• To justify racism with a "top 85%" IQ

How should one go about this? They get called out and reported every now and then, but that doesn't seem to be slowing them down.

Been on reddit for more or less 10 years, I noticed that people who don't have a 'hot' ip account get instant down voted. There is usually a gang of 50 people that downvote any new content, duplicate their content and respin it as their own and gain instantly 50-100 upvotes. The organic content users, get vile and insulting replies and downvoted. I guess there are hundreds if not thousands of people being paid daily to monitor, downvote, and upvote their peers on an astronomical scale to promote political, social and economic agendas.

Due to the decline of physical mainstream media, more and more funding has been redirected to the control of social media. There are hordes of redditors controlling opinion on reddit and anyone who challenges their narrative is downvoted into oblivion as an indirect form of censorship. Reddit has become a platform for corporate media and political institutions to monopolize, each hot ip redditor gains thousands of upvotes per week and becoming oligarchs similar to a real life scenario.

Not all subreddits are moderated in a controlled manner; identifying this requires a careful and determined analysis of posting patterns, comment replies, and the direction the narrative is being steered, along with understanding who ultimately benefits and who loses.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1hv2b6s/what_is_something_you_have_that_means_so_much_to/m5r5ghe/ ==>

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8qg4yf/what_object_do_you_own_that_means_the_most_to_you/e0iy14c/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1hv1j5z/parents_of_reddit_what_should_single_dudes_know/m5r5arz/ ==>

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8vi02i/dads_of_reddit_what_is_your_advice_for_new_dads/

Some times ago. I have found this user comment with link, whole comment sounds like ad/spam. Checked his profile and every comment he posted its all about links and ad. Even I think he uses another bots to upvote his comment, because there was like post from 2years, most top comments from 2 years got about 50 upbotes while his comment was few months old and got about x2 more upvotes with obvious advertising. I now see, its removed, susp activity: https://www.reddit.com/r/SkincareAddiction/comments/180xt6m/acne_psa_if_youve_tried_everything_but_still/

Bot profile https://www.reddit.com/user/Swimming_Cold3743/

My mom is selling a house on Facebook marketplace and this person responded. Their replies put up some red flags.

https://preview.redd.it/z625652o6qae1.jpg?width=3498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7172516eb0f5f25c48992901f313adc704cf015c

So, do you think it's a bot?

https://www.reddit.com/user/NoConcentrate1834/

Just noticed this account made a post in my cities subreddit, checked his account to see he made identical posts in subs for cities across my entire country, as well as extremely politically slanted comments and posts on many other countries' subs. This account was made about a month ago, and makes hundreds of posts a day. I feel like I find a new one of these almost every other day now. Worried about the future of our news diet.

I'm wondering if there's a list of "bot accounts" somewhere, or suspected "bot accounts". Anybody know?

(In quotes b/c a single account can contain BOTH human activity and bot activity).

I'm most interested in identifying accounts that are more-or-less posing as humans, and I'm wondering if there's a subreddit that has figured out how to crowd source this activity already.

Thank you 🖖

I'm tired of low quality content and would like to use an extension or something that can make suspected bot accounts. Something like how there were extensions that could mark fake reviews on Amazon.

Holy shit, I don't even know where to put this.

I'd never heard of a sub called theviralthings before like, yesterday. Now I'm seeing it on the front page every couple of hours.

I got curious and sorted the sub by its top posts ever. Literally all of them are bot accounts. I got bored after checking like 20 of them. They're usually 2-8 years old, one comments, then they just woke up a few months ago and started being active. Virtually none of them have a comment history older than 10 days. For some reason they're also so subbed to aita sub. All of them. I'm sure more posts will be human/organic soon, now that they've kind of forced their way into awareness.

I checked the mods, and at least 2 of the 3 are bots too. They constantly post random, generic comments like "wow so cute" and "I love this so much" all the time.

Something maybe even more strange though; I tried to start writing this comment in one of the threads on the sub, and it wouldn't allow me to type the name of the sub! Lol how tf is that possible? I just kept trying to type the "v" in the name and it would just leave a blank space over and over. I had to draft this in my email. I'm also pretty sure I was muted from the sub earlier today after I replied to someone that pointed out to me that the OP was an obvious bot. I had a somewhat controversial comment and 4 replies every time I refreshed, then it just suddenly stopped, and no more change in my comment karma. Clearly not an organic change over a few moments.

I know there's a ton of bots on Reddit, and many puppet accounts and whatever. But has anyone actually seen a whole sub forcefully generated in weeks, created by bots, modded by bots, and used by bots on this level? What's the point, to have unfeterred access to pumping up accounts to have credibly later? Is this about to become common here?

I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I'm trying to think of where to post this as I write it out. Lots of subs have rules against referring to Reddit in a submission, or meta posts or whenever. But the admins must be able to see this happening in the backend, right?

So weird and unsettling. I hate that it's so easy to influence people.

Asking the person on reddit, "What is my username?", comes back with the same one most the time. Can we confirm that these users created the bots that use AI to trick you into believing they are real?! It's crazy. Trick of the trade, ask them if they can get your username right!

Okay, I feel older than I actually am because I'm asking this question. I understand that bots moderate subreddits, but are there more uses to these bots? I've seen people literally summon a bot to do something funny or to explain something. I absolutely don't understand, nor do I know where to look to understand Reddit bots. Are these bots usually just used for a specific purpose?

I'm hoping someone can give me a straightforward explanation of how to use these bots. I see people calling on bots to do stuff, but I have no idea how to do it or what bots can even do. Can someone please share their knowledge and help me get started?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1gl2mp3/whats_a_sign_someone_has_no_life/

This is the first bot i have encountered and gotten such a response out of

Spreadsmile

Its all bots, every top post right now is from accounts that are a few days old

All following the usual strategy of poating a few comments then begin posting posts, each some removes comments so auto mods somewhat catch them

Im assuming the sub was made by these bot pushers

Its always these positivity subs and animal subs infested with bot farmers

So I noticed that once everyone started saying "weird" all of a sudden a month or so ago that there was some repeated instances where someone would post some political post (a lot of times on local, regional subs) and then there would be HUNDREDS of very short, but repetitive replies that would have the words "weird" or "creepy" in them, but mostly "weird". It very much seemed like the typical bot responses you see on places like reddit and youtube.

After seeing this enough I decided to start replying to them with a simple "They said the word!" response to see if these were accounts with actual people using them. I did this once and probably replied about a hundred times manually to these posts (there were literally hundreds of them) and finally got tired and stopped. After a week there were no downvotes, no upvotes, no replies....nothing. The kind of thing you'd expect if the account was automated and a real person was not actually using it. Looking back now a month later, still the same thing.

Then I randomly stumbled into another political post this week (I usually try to avoid them), same thing....this time I got lazy and just replied to maybe 30 of them. 2 days later same thing, no downvotes...no upvotes...no replies. I did manage to get an ACTUAL reply on one of them, which was then massively downvoted (this could just be that for some reason more people saw it or maybe this person is a participant in some kind of astroturfing and shared my reply for a downvoting brigade?)

Here's a screenshot of my reply history in case they get wise and decide to start downvoting all of them to cover tracks:

https://imgur.com/a/rHsNIaF

The interesting thing that I found was that spot checking some of these accounts they appear to have genuine-looking posts in non-political subs. However, just thinking critically here, what are the odds that an account that's normally active wouldn't reply or down or upvote a response to them after a month? What are the odds that ALL the accounts like that wouldn't respond after a month? I'd say pretty slim, personally. Makes me wonder if some of these accounts have AI-driven activity on them.

In my quest to find a wallet that could also hold an airtag, I came across this post. The entire comment section are bots. Any information about this brand or product niche on reddit is astroturfed to the tits. So much so that they pollute even regular wallet recommendation posts. There are multiple other instances of this company doing the exact same thing on different subreddits. This is a documented phenomenon with these types of wallets specifically.

More examples:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/AirTagUses/comments/1dzzdl3/thoughts_on_vionentus_wallet/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/AirTags/comments/ysodf4/using_airtag_with_wallet/