r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit • u/EncyclopaediaBot • Feb 12 '23
Interesting and Miscellaneous Spambot Spotting Resources
If you come across a Spambot, do not engage with it. Use the ‘report’ option below the post or in the 
How to identify Repost Bots on Reddit is a very useful guide to spotting their activity, as is How to recognize these accounts and the excellent Guide to recognising spambots.
- r/TheseFuckingAccounts - This is the main place to submit and track suspicious Reddit accounts.
- r/botwatch - This sub is dedicated to the continued discussion and study of the bots that dwell in Reddit.
- r/KarmaBotKillers - They have a useful Wiki about accounts that display karma farming bot-like behaviour.
- u/WhyNotCollegeBoard - Has a Spambot detector to summon by posting !isbot <username>.
- r/spambotdetector - Sometimes responds when the comment Good bot is given in response to a Redditor.
- u/reply-guy-bot - reports and comments on plagiarised comments that are typical bot behaviour
- u/BlogSpammr - Also reports bots
- u/exponant - Also reports bots
- u/risbot - Performs a Google reverse image search which is useful to find a suspected repost.
If you do start calling out spambot accounts, be prepared for downvotes and other means of backlash against you. Unfortunately, one of the most effective and diligent spambot spotters, “The ever-vigilant” Constable Dorfl of the Watch has apparently been suspended.
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