I’ve noticed we have bots copy pasting Reddit submissions. Is there a method to block them all?

I assume they mean good by ‘generating’ content in communities, but I don’t see a reason why anyone would comment on them since the OP is on Reddit and will never read them.

I know I can block each individual account as I come across them but I’d just prefer to block them all so I don’t see their content at all.

They appear to do the nice thing by adding a line in the submissions about it being an automated submission. Is there a filter for words/phrase found in the body of a submission?

  • @grueEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    That’s due to the users simply not participating. There’s no technical difference between a bot-posted thread and a human-posted one…

    Sure there is: when it’s a human-posted thread, it means at least one person participated. The difference between one and zero – between talking to a single other person and talking to an empty room – is very large.

    • Chozo
      -8•1 year ago

      That’s not really how comment sections work, though. They exist all the same, whether the OP is a bot or a human. It’s up to the other humans to use it.

      • @grueEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        Even if no other humans reply but you, at least you were talking to OP.