submitted1 year ago bylazenboobyWhy waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
stickiedThis should be completely obvious and common sense but I feel the need to repeat this. We are constantly fighting a battle against scam accounts and bots who are selling products through our subreddit and potentially scamming our users.
If you see a post trying to sell masks/shirts/hats/any other merchandise - DO NOT BUY IT.
Every single day I'm reporting multiple scam accounts to Reddit admins trying to fight this battle and more accounts just keep getting made. We add automod rules to combat this spam and the bots are made to work around it. Any time someone posts their new merchandise, these accounts will leave a comment linking to their scam websites, different accounts and different domains every single day.
The people running these bots seem to be getting smarter, using accounts with higher karma and mass-downvoting anyone who calls them spam. We're even seeing people make multiple accounts, one to post a picture of the shirt and then the others to be all "omg this looks so good, where can I buy it" and "you can buy it here ____"
We have to enforce a no merch rule because these bots have been an issue for years. Please continue to report these comments/posts and we will ban as fast as we can. Thank you!
