Is the Reddit End Near? AI Citation Drops, Google Deal, and Mass Account Bans

sickminds said:

I used to buy in bulk - I run ai agency and Of agency for my models. Sure you can buy them, but they will get shadow banned or banned out right. its a time waster if you're looking to scale.

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What type of accounts did you buy? Empty ones, I assume. Did you use them for links, comments, or posts?

lucax3 said:

I don’t understand what you mean. Nothing has changed when it comes to buying accounts. If you buy aged accounts, they should at least have some interaction history. If you’re buying accounts based on karma, you can’t buy a bot account with just one post or two comments and thousands of karma. You need to buy natural accounts, with at least 10 interactions and a proportional amount of karma.

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These types of accounts gets banned even if we do proper warm. The best approach that worked for me is to creating our own accounts and using them. That way we can have more control over quality and less chances of ban.

sickminds said:

I used to buy in bulk - I run ai agency and Of agency for my models.

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Have you bought some in the recent time? from where did you bought them

MoMarketing said:

These types of accounts gets banned even if we do proper warm. The best approach that worked for me is to creating our own accounts and using them. That way we can have more control over quality and less chances of ban.

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But were you able to post simple comments, or did the accounts get banned?
The logic is simple: if you buy accounts with, for example, 10 comments, they can’t be flagged accounts, otherwise they would have been banned already. The problem starts when you take control of these accounts. If you can’t make a comment, it means you haven’t warmed up the account properly. If you can make a comment, it means the account is yours, just as if you had created it yourself. After that, it’s up to you to build it up further.

It could be worse for spammers, but it's now much better for normal users who promote real products.

reddit better for genuine users when the spam is kept under control.

I feel like a huge wave of average users is coming soon, that’s probably going to bring more strict requirements too, like phone verification and app based auth. Reddit won't die, it'll just become way more mainstream

still people spamming affiliate links and promoting non stop and never getting banned ,

Kenobii said:

It could be worse for spammers, but it's now much better for normal users who promote real products.

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still people spamming hard direct affiliate links and post fake reviews with affiliate links and never get banned

praetserge said:

It's actually better for the real users so it will stay.
And less spammers, more room for IM'ers who do it right.
I run a few sumbreddits and I ban and reject a lot of spam, thankfully, reddit filters help a lot, still way too many naive spammers there.

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still people spamming so hard fake reviews with direct affiliate links 2-4 posts with affiliate links per day and never getting banned

Salamouna said:

yea agreed, the algo got way better at catching farms now. even aged accounts are getting hit harder if they slip on posting patterns. been running a lot of accounts but lately fingerprinting and ip rotation is key to even survive a month. reddit really cracked down on the bot farms hard last quarter

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Hi which proxy do you use and how do you manage multiple accounts?

Kenobii said:

It could be worse for spammers, but it's now much better for normal users who promote real products.

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Dont you think it is becoming harder to do that nowadays??

Henry Miller said:

I think relevance is becoming increasingly important. A backlink from a closely related site can make more sense than a high-authority link with no topical connection. I’d look at both relevance and the overall quality of the linking site.

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But I am considering reddit as a backlink source I am considering that as a whole platform and getting some real buyers from it by engaging in relevant post/comments and subbredits

Dealing with the same filter wave right now, would really like some input. We run a SaaS that's been around since 2016, 1,000+ paying users a month. Reddit is by far where most of our target audience is. We're not trying to push sales there at all, the idea is just to help people with their problems and if some of them end up becoming users later, great.
But we keep hitting the same wall:
1. Used my personal aged account for months, only helping people and building a clean comment history. The moment I shared a detailed case study with a link to a free, relevant resource (following all the sub rules), reddit's spam filter flagged it. Account got suspended shortly after.
2. Tried from a completely separate phone on a clean network. Same thing.
3. AdsPower + premium rotating residential proxies, warmed up the accounts properly with normal browsing. As soon as I mentioned a helpful resource, even in subs that allow it, instant filter flag and then shadowban.

So either our domain got blacklisted or the filter just kills any outbound link no matter how legit the product is or how helpful the post was. How are you guys handling this when you have an actual product and just want to help people in your niche?

Baika Washington said:

So either our domain got blacklisted or the filter just kills any outbound link no matter how legit the product is or how helpful the post was. How are you guys handling this when you have an actual product and just want to help people in your niche?

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Instead or mentioning the brand I think you should do brand mentions only as reddit is very strict for links

Baika Washington said:

2. Tried from a completely separate phone on a clean network. Same thing.

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Than the setup could be the issue try a normal human behavior first before promotion helped me a lot

luvyou said:

reddit still works, but the easy loopholes are getting closed fast

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In your opinion what is currently working for you? and what should anyone do for reddit promotions and driving traffic from it?