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?

  • Emma @programming.devEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    I believe there is a setting to disable seeing posts from accounts labelled as a “bot account”. (I realize that this would technically also hide all other bots, not just reddit repost ones, but I personally don’t really know of any content posted by a bot that I want to see).

    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      261·
      1 year ago

      I personally don’t really know of any content posted by a bot that I want to see).

      Some communities use bots to schedule recurrent posts. Those can be useful, and mostly provide a feature we’ll hopefully see built-in the platform in the future

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      Automated mod actions, Sports game threads, L4s, Hackernews reposts, sales threads, weekly threads are what you might miss out on.

      • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        I want more sports related bots to post, I know I missed blocking some. Roaches they are, everywhere.

      • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        My instance has daily threads. It’d be nice to distinguish between community bot and generic bot. I should see if there’s a request for that already.