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A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

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Re: A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

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Post by lelandfe »

leviathant wrote: post #39
lelandfe wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure you love Reddit's decision to allow users to hide their post history.

What I do love is that when you're a mod, that post history isn't necessarily hidden.

I don't think this covers comments (...on subreddits you don't mod)

It's definitely been a lot harder for me to uncover sockpuppetry

Re: A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

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Post by dabluecaboose »

hightrix wrote: post #22
asdff wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is some sort of wink wink nudge nudge agreement going on with certain spam accounts. You will see them post article spam with hidden history, and if you look up their posts either via google or any other reddit crawling tool, they are posting all over various subreddits that same article maybe dozens of times. If they comment it is really basic and formulaic and found all over their post histories as well. I fe…

This practice was perfected by gallowboob years ago. He would spam a link/pic/post and monitor, if the post didn’t gain traction, he would delete and post again as to not trigger protections against the same link being posted. He was a cancer on Reddit and I’m sure he still exists under different monikers. But now there are 100s of gallowboobs.

> He was a cancer on Reddit and I’m sure he still exists under different monikers. But now there are 100s of gallowboobs.

Yep, for example: If you mention the name "TurboStrider27" on /r/Games, your comment gets shadowbanned.

Re: A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

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Post by bink »

someonebaggy wrote: post #29
qingcharles wrote: post #17

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Is it still shadowbanned? If you go to reddit.com/appeal what does it say?

There's basically only one result you can get from an appeal which is "we have reviewed your account and we will not be lifting the suspension at this time." The appeals process exists to fill a checkbox that says there must be an appeals process, not to actually unban anyone.

I appealed a warning I was given for quoting a Simpsons episode (promoting violence, Reddit-wide and not from a sub) and was my appeal was granted.

Re: A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

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Post by gnabgib »

aw1621107 wrote: post #48
try-working wrote: post #44

what's going on with this post? It was posted days ago and now its back on the frontpage again?

My guess would be the second-chance pool ( https://news.ycombinator.com/pool , explained by dang at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 )

Exactly that, you can tell by hovering over the posted time "9 hours ago".. and see that it's really from June.

Re: A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

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Post by PUSH_AX »

A lot of what they are doing now is around AI comments and posts, I know this because in some of my subreddits I have various automod filters that align with the way AI writes, I see it all the time where my automod removes something and reddit removes it again after (some kind of race condition), as well as tons of these accounts getting site wide bans.

In case you didn't realise, a massive portion of content on reddit now is LLMs.

I'm not a massive fan of how reddit has played certain hands in the last 5 years or so, but I do hope they win the war on dead internet theory.

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