Killing Floor HEADS-UP: Reddit is being flooded with a karma-farming bot-net reposting content on many subreddits (including this one).

HEADS-UP: Reddit is being flooded with a karma-farming bot-net reposting content on many subreddits (including this one).
scavenger weekly kicks in
DLC weapons can also randomly spawn in Scavenger weekly even if you don't own any.
Those who already played the new beta, what do you think about it?
best gun XD
(very) Low FPS in Moon Base
After over 1h downloading 40gb, and this is what I got. Anyone on Epic can play Beta?

HEADS-UP: Reddit is being flooded with a karma-farming bot-net reposting content on many subreddits (including this one).

Posted: 27 May 2021 07:56 AM PDT

And they won't be stopping anytime soon.

What's going on?

Some of you may have noticed it by now for the past few weeks, either through browsing this subreddit or on another subreddit - random bot accounts showing up and reposting content from as far back as a year, right down to the body of the post, as an attempt to farm karma. Sometimes, these accounts show up to repost the top comments of the reposted thread and even give Reddit awards to further add a degree of 'legitimacy' to these karma farming attempts.

So why is this a bad thing, you might ask? The answer is these accounts exist solely to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon and promote random, obscure coins in hopes of it jumping in price and execute a pump & dump scenario. And in so doing it causes a mess on the front page of a subreddit/decrease in quality content all while these accounts continue to promote their garbage.

How do I tell out something is a repost?

Infuriatingly, there's almost none, if at all, any common traits of a reposter compared to previous types of spam bots, making it hard to stop them.

Some of these accounts are as old as half a year old or as young as a few days. Some of these accounts follow the usual bot naming trait of various random surnames, nouns, verbs and numbers together, some of these accounts' names are almost indistinguishable from the average Reddit account used by an actual human. And because these account's main purpose is to farm karma by reposting content, this renders the minimum karma restrictions/banning of certain keywords often seen with older T-Shirt/Youtuber spammers some subs use to weed out bots useless.

In short, Automod's usual account checking thresholds does jack-shit against these bots while actual users are the only ones affected.

The only way you can identify a repost is to either copy/paste the title of a thread on the Reddit search bar or if you ran a reposter-detector bot in the comments section.

So what does this mean for me, an ordinary user?

If you are aware of something is a blatant repost by a bot, as usual, please report them so they can be reviewed and removed. Doing so helps the moderators of the affected subreddit out in combating the ongoing bot-net issue.

In the meanwhile, on the moderators' side of things, I'll try my best and remove/ban any of these reposts that I come across. Don't be surprised if seemingly-active threads you saw/participated in a few minutes/hours ago suddenly disappears/removed for being a repost (though I usually leave a stickied comment indicating the post as such.)

Thanks and stay safe in this period of time!

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scavenger weekly kicks in

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 07:24 AM PDT

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DLC weapons can also randomly spawn in Scavenger weekly even if you don't own any.

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 07:00 PM PDT

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Those who already played the new beta, what do you think about it?

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 12:20 AM PDT

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best gun XD

Posted: 03 Jun 2021 02:56 AM PDT

submitted by /u/outof_galaxy
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(very) Low FPS in Moon Base

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:15 PM PDT

Hi guys, did anyone notice that the new Moon Base map performs poorly? I have a mid-range laptop and all the maps run at 40+ fps (except for some lows in Hellmark Station or Dystopia 2029), but Moon Base is the exception. The map runs at 15-20 fps, except in the dark corridors and therefore I consider it UNPLAYABLE, because I cannot aim or move well. I hope these performance issues will resolve it in a future patch or next beta.

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After over 1h downloading 40gb, and this is what I got. Anyone on Epic can play Beta?

Posted: 02 Jun 2021 08:25 PM PDT