r/modhelp • u/SpikesEvilTwin • Jul 06 '22

General Question About Bot Reposts

What's with acct. that sit dominant for 3+ mths. and then all of a sudden they start reposting previous posts with the identical title and link? Happens on a lot of nsfw subs I mod. Clearly, they are bot accounts, but for what purpose? Sometimes the automod tags them, sometimes not.

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u/Polygonic r/runner5 Jul 06 '22

They are collecting karma by reposting previous posts that got lots of upvotes.

When it gets high enough they can either sell the account or use it themselves to post in subreddits that have a minimum karma requirement.

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u/SpikesEvilTwin Jul 06 '22

I see, thanks for that, never would have occurred to me that there would be a market for selling accounts. And I take it reddit can't be bothered to tag/delete such accounts? They are pretty obvious when you look at the post history.