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One thing I’ve noticed is that a ton of posts from the top 0.1% subs will get about three to four hours of thousands of updoots and comments and then get nuked by the mods with no reason given, pointing to it being bots. Like a few years ago it seemed like the repost bots were sneaking in and getting posts at the top to then be able to sell the account for someone else to bypass spam filters. Now it feels like the majority of top posts are that, and that anyone engaging in the top content is also grinding out the accounts that will be used to spam them at a lower level.
Mods on Reddit giving a crap about bots?
In my experience they are more likely to shadow ban those who complain about bots than to do anything about obvious bots.
I got permanently banned for reporting spam (“abusing the report button”) after I reported 8 Vice articles posted in /r/politics by the Vice self-promotion account in one day.
Meanwhile, the spam guidelines page says - if you create an account primarily to promote your own content, you may be a spammer. And as a redditor, you should report spam.
They lost a 12 year long user who primarily engaged in niche technical subjects who went out of their way to answer newcomers’ questions.
subs will get about three to four hours of thousands of updoots and comments and then get nuked by the mods
This was a tactic made common by Gallowboob. He would do this on every major sub he moderated, but with even more nastiness.
He’s post, wait to see if it got enough upvotes, if it did not he’d delete and repost. Constantly. Until his posts got to the top.
He did this across many of the largest subredddits and turned it into a paid job where he’d advertise for others using this same patterns.
Even worse, he’d delete others posts if they were doing too well too quickly and repost as his own.
Dude is one of the pillars of what destroyed Reddit.