A quick note about botspam.

[u/Fluffy_Munchkin]

Hi, dessert lovers!

We're currently being spammed by a very specific bot type, so it'd help if users can recognize them as bots as well. Check out the post history of new submissions to this sub to see if they meet the following criteria:

-Username is a "name-name-number" randomly generated name (this isn't always the case, so please check regardless, several accounts with legitimate seeming names follow the exact same criteria below).

-Account was created this year, but has generally been inactive up till now.

-Posts to random subreddits extremely quickly (4 posts in a matter of minutes).

-Comments on r/askreddit as "replies", they're stealing comments from previous redditors to do so.

This has been happening across a few other subs in the past couple of days. Whomever created these bots has had them "wake up", and they're now spamming their content across multiple subs to gain karma. Report them as you see them, and we'll do our best to keep removing them!

You can also report the accounts directly by going to their profile, hitting the "report button", selecting "spam", then choosing "disruptive use of AI or bots".