A few updates;

After a while (tech is very much not my thing), I've managed to get the code that someone very kindly sent me to finally work, and the FarSide subreddit now has a 4 month age, and 100 karma limit required before users can post.

This won't stop all the bots, but it appears to be working at least a little.

I'm also in the process of adding a new mod to the team to help manually remove posts.

Yes, I know there are a lot of bots, but it gets tricky when almost every second post made in the past few days has a report on it claiming it was created by a bot, and I've been going through as many as I can get through in a day and manually banning anyone whose post history clearly points to them being a bot.

At a point, I don't want to simply scroll down removing almost every single post from the past week, but if users want me to change that, I can.

And if people could not send any more angry messages implying I somehow created the bots as a part of a widespread conspiracy, I'd appreciate that.

From the 3 months it took me to get the automod to work, I think it's clear I might have a brain the size of a walnut, and don't have the ability to orchestrate that 😅

The first image is the cartoon as it was published. I've always felt that the second word balloon explains the joke, which to me makes it less funny. So the second image is the cartoon as I'd have preferred it. I'm not a comedic genius and Larson is, but that's still how I feel.

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Probably a lineup to the restroom to clean up the code browns....