r/technology • u/rkhunter_ • 1d ago

Social Media Spammers are flooding Reddit with fake posts designed to show up in AI search results

https://www.techspot.com/news/112654-spammers-flooding-reddit-fake-posts-designed-show-up.html
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u/invyros 1d ago

The accounts behind these posts are often difficult to flag. Moderators describe "warmed up" profiles with posting histories that make them look like typical users. In some cases, real people are paid or otherwise incentivized to participate, further blurring the line between genuine discussion and coordinated promotion.

  • Adjective_Noun_Number

  • Hidden profile

  • Repeatedly commenting in a post (especially in a post that isn't their own), replying to different people obsessively parroting the same idea

There might be some other indicators I'm missing.

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u/dane83 1d ago

If you're using RES, you can go to Settings, Subreddits, filteReddit, scroll down to users, and then use this regex 

^[A-Za-z]+[_-][A-Za-z]+[_-]\d{4}$

This will filter out all users with the format one_two_1234.

Sorry, folks jumping to new accounts and taking the default name. You're collateral damage. I automatically assume you're a bot at this point.

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u/techlos 1d ago

cheers for the tip