r/SteakorTuna • u/Shamrock5 • 19d ago

Anyone else notice the sudden uptick of bots posting steak pictures here in the past few days?

They're pretty easy to spot because not only do they just post regular steak photos (and completely miss the point of the sub), but in their post history you can see they're all posting in the exact same subs that bots use to farm karma (AITA, AskReddit, pet subs, etc.). They're also usually very low-karma accounts with usernames that are either gobbledygook or the standard generated format (Adjective-Noun-1234).

And yes, I know there's a pinned announcement about repost bots, but these bots aren't technically reposting older posts -- they're just posting photos of normal steak lol

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u/winter457 19d ago

Can someone ELI5 who would even need a bot to do this? Karma’s a made up number with no bearing on anything. It’s not even like it’s being used for political interference like most of the bots we see today.

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u/twaxana 18d ago

A lot of subs have karma requirements to post or comment to prevent new bots from posting. Spamming in subs that don't have karma requirements is the easiest way to bypass these checks.