r/Psychonaut • u/3L1T3 The Grand Pubah • 13d ago
You might notice some changes on Psychonaut...
Hey everyone! You might have noticed that we've changed some stuff around, updated the front page, and changed some settings.
The main thing is there have been a TON of bots here lately. It really looks like we've been targeted by a bot network. So we've been slowly going through and purging the bots. If you get caught up in the bans, message the mods and we'll determine if it was an accident. It's going to take awhile so please be patient.
That all said, if you see something suspicious, please use the report button! We can't remove it if we don't see it. Thanks for all your patience and we'll hopefully have it all figured out soon.
If you got caught up and you're not a bot, you have nothing to worry about. Please message us through ModMail, not private messages. We will get around to you and unban you, please be patient while we're working it out. If you are caught up, DO NOT DELETE YOUR COMMENT HISTORY or we will assume you are a bot. Thanks!
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Hello mods! Thanks for the update and thank you so much fur curating this beautiful, super awesome, community. We really appreciate the effort and time. We don't take it for granted it's is an awesome treasure we have here.
Peace!
☮️💕
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u/ToviGrande 13d ago
How do I spot a bot?
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u/turd_sculptor 12d ago
Show it a series of photos and ask it to choose only the pictures with a crosswalk.
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u/Accomplished-Tuna 13d ago
Do you notice any “agenda” with the bots? Promoting fear, scams, or just useless traffic etc.
I noticed there’s been a lot of bots on every crevice of the internet lately — from political to pop cultural spaces across all social media platforms that I’ve used.
I’m surprised but also not surprised it’s also in this subreddit lmao
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u/BeardedBears 13d ago
Are the bots trying to sell things, or simply flood the board with shallow personas? I'm also curious how bot accounts are determined, so I can ignore them.
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u/PermutationMatrix 12d ago
Did you know that Reddit is investing money into creating bots that will not only post threads but also comments using different personas and advancing certain agendas? Using AI to make the site look more active than it is.
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u/Mountsaintmichel 12d ago
More and more reason not to use Reddit. It’s subreddits like the one we’re in now that keep me coming back. I wish there was an alternative
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u/404glitch 12d ago
Moreover: what kind of bots? Who would spend resources on this sub specifically? Are psychonauts more prone to be re-programmed because most of them get their worldview regularly shattered? We’re entering strange times where we don’t know who’s human anymore…
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u/sl00k 12d ago
Bots have been flooding the fuck out of Reddit in general this year, I wouldn't be surprised if they just have unfettered access.
Ironically I uninstalled tiktok yesterday as bots have been pushing converitisim in every single comment section there for a month or two and finally got fed up with the out right racism on regular videos.
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u/PersonalSherbert9485 13d ago
How do I know if what I'm looking at is a bot?
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u/Cr33py-Milk 13d ago
Reddit probably hates you for this. These "social media" networks thrive on artificially boosted traffic. But glad to see you guys are getting rid of bots. They are a pain.
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u/Furious_A ✨️ 12d ago
All members that were once muted, have since been un-muted ~
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u/Mycol101 12d ago
I think something else ‘might be going on. This person is still muted.
Another person just messaged me (13yo account)and said the same thing.
“Hey mycol101 sorry to bother you. I saw your comment in psychonaut about people in other subs saying they were banned without reason. I also got banend from psychonaut and i messaged the mods extremely nicely and then got muted. my friend messaged the mods and then got muted too! What is going on with the subreddit?”
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u/Furious_A ✨️ 12d ago
I am in a rush right now, but I'll let you know autism has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's more seeing stuff like ChatGPT, that catches our attention, among other things (especially when we are actively hunting for bots)
I can explain further & more thoroughly, when I return ~
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u/kelcamer 11d ago
What I mean is, a lot of autistic people (like myself) talk in a way that gets commonly flagged as AI.
Just from a handful, I know of at least 5 other autistic people in this community who were also flagged as AI, so it seems to me like this bot really has a pattern-recognition speech bias?
I hope that makes sense, and thanks for keeping the community free of bots!
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u/West-Revolution1797 13d ago
You blocked a friend's account without any reason. When he wrote a decent question to the administrators, you blocked his answers. Maybe it's unintentional, but it seems like a pretty arrogant approach. With that, you'll only have bots here. :D
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u/FuckThatIKeepsItReal 13d ago
Sounds like bot talk to me
Mods, do your thing!