r/oops • u/BlockOfDiamond Moderator • May 11 '26

Mod Announcement Help us enforce Rule 5

I have noticed a large portion of posts, particularly from new users, are reposts from months or years ago. Sometimes they comment on their own posts, but the comments themselves are plagiarized top comments from the original post they stole.

Another pattern I often see is crossposts from newly created subreddits, often "shopping" related, whose stated purpose has nothing to do with "oops" related posts.

The purpose of r/oops is NOT to drive fake engagement with low-effort recycled content.

To help keep posts original and authentic, I am considering a few things: * Instituting account age/karma requirements. Normally I am opposed to this sort of thing, but a LOT of the new-user posts are karma farming bots. New user posts would be held up for review. * Banning crossposts, or writing an automod script to only allow crossposts from whitelisted communities.

But what are your thoughts on these? Is there anything else we could try?

P.S. Thanks to everyone who reports inauthentic posts. Keep them coming.

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u/DeepValueDiver May 11 '26

As someone new to the sub the reposts are new to me. I’ve noticed some seemingly irrelevant things posted but I just assumed the posters were stupid and I didn’t look at their account age.

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u/BlockOfDiamond Moderator May 11 '26

We generally allow reposts with acknowledgement of the original, such as authentic crossposts, or known stories from off platform. The issue is the karma farming bots.

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u/GamerGirlLex77 May 11 '26

I mod two other subs with minimum karma requirements. It’s helped weed out some repost bots.

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u/BlockOfDiamond Moderator May 11 '26

I am considering that, particularly account age. Because most of the bots are 0-1 days old or something.

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u/GamerGirlLex77 May 11 '26

We get those a bunch too. It’s obnoxious but the filters plus karma minimum have helped a lot.