Reddit has changed, what about us?

ToNice

ToNice

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Hello everyone, this is my first time writing in this forum, although I follow it constantly. I don't know, but my biological clock says it's been about a month since Reddit increased its security measures for the U.S. elections—an endless month in which my team and I have seen about 80% of our accounts wiped out, and we're talking about numbers exceeding 10,000.

About a week ago, we decided to start over from scratch, creating new accounts using various methods (bots and manual processes), and that's when the odyssey began. If there was no clear rule before, now we're certain that Reddit has gone crazy.

Finally, yesterday, after a week of intense work, we reached our first conclusions. We believe that Reddit, as before, assigns a score to each created account—meaning that with every action, your account's score increases until it becomes almost untouchable compared to before.

For example, yesterday, we created an account with a bot, and an hour after its creation, we successfully sent 10 consecutive comments—something that had never happened before.

The only advice I can give to those struggling is to stop and think: what does Reddit expect from our account?

I know, I’ve said everything and nothing, or rather, I’ve told you to think and reflect. Once you’re using an anti-detection browser and proxies, take a moment to stop and plan how to act.
 
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It's definitely frustrating when platforms change their rules and security measures like that. I can see your observations about reddit assigning scores to accounts make a lot of sense & according to me It seems like they’re trying to crack down on spam and bots, which can make it harder for legitimate users as well. Btw you must focusing on building genuine engagement instead of just trying to game the system might be a better long-term strategy.
 
It expect you to behave like a regular user. So when you create an account you spend looking around various posts/comments subreddits for hours before actually doing anything.
People scroll for hours daily on their accounts without any posts/comments. They currently measure everything like how much time you spend looking at post/comment how much you spent doing x,y,z. The problem is they have a statistical advantage of milions and bilions of their user interaction to compare to, and if they truly wanted they could implement a system with like 99% accuracy. Such system would be probably very expensive and advanced but it is possible. Luckily reddit usually outsource their anti bot/spam protection but I am afraid that they have given it to google which is an absolute menace to bots (that are not their own of course).

As for score you are right they probably have some internal scoring system which decreases/increases with use. I noticed some of my accounts that were like posting for year or two now with over 100k karma, they seem to be immune to bans like they post standard 1 image post per day each day without any bans. I have few of those accs and they of course have not been hit with these recent changes.
I also have some accs that are about month old and seem to be resitant to bans too as they post 4-5 comments and 1-2 image post per day for well 30+ days without issues. But that is only for example 1 out of 300 accounts.

I feel you though we had it easy before these changes I could have easily posted comments/posts right after creating account and using it for only few minutes daily.
Now I need to warm up way more to be able to do same basic stuff as before, which creates an resource problem when you try to manage thousands of accounts.
 
cmqwer0 said:
It expect you to behave like a regular user. So when you create an account you spend looking around various posts/comments subreddits for hours before actually doing anything.
People scroll for hours daily on their accounts without any posts/comments. They currently measure everything like how much time you spend looking at post/comment how much you spent doing x,y,z. The problem is they have a statistical advantage of milions and bilions of their user interaction to compare to, and if they truly wanted they could implement a system with like 99% accuracy. Such system would be probably very expensive and advanced but it is possible. Luckily reddit usually outsource their anti bot/spam protection but I am afraid that they have given it to google which is an absolute menace to bots (that are not their own of course).

As for score you are right they probably have some internal scoring system which decreases/increases with use. I noticed some of my accounts that were like posting for year or two now with over 100k karma, they seem to be immune to bans like they post standard 1 image post per day each day without any bans. I have few of those accs and they of course have not been hit with these recent changes.
I also have some accs that are about month old and seem to be resitant to bans too as they post 4-5 comments and 1-2 image post per day for well 30+ days without issues. But that is only for example 1 out of 300 accounts.

I feel you though we had it easy before these changes I could have easily posted comments/posts right after creating account and using it for only few minutes daily.
Now I need to warm up way more to be able to do same basic stuff as before, which creates an resource problem when you try to manage thousands of accounts.
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I can assure you we worked non-stop for 7 days. Google’s protection isn’t the issue, and warming up accounts is hit or miss—it hasn’t changed much. But I found the solution during a 10-minute nap, thinking away from the computer. So my advice is to stop and reflect.
Soon I’ll start testing with old accounts to see if my theory works for them too, but I’m 100% confident it will.
 
I know the photo... but how nice, welcome, you're always the best!
 
ToNice said:
I’ve told you to think and reflect
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It is indeed a valid point, by the way. If this is a real story from your side, it serves as a truly inspiring message. Perhaps there are options around us that we haven't yet recognized, and it's time to expand our perspective.
 
YesAccs said:
It is indeed a valid point, by the way. If this is a real story from your side, it serves as a truly inspiring message. Perhaps there are options around us that we haven't yet recognized, and it's time to expand our perspective.
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I can guarantee it's not difficult, but we spent a week on it, testing 100 types of proxies, working on fingerprints, yet that wasn't the issue. So, to everyone: old proxies and old fingerprints still work, start from there! And if my latest test works, even the old way of creating accounts still works.
 
ToNice said:
I can guarantee it's not difficult, but we spent a week on it, testing 100 types of proxies, working on fingerprints, yet that wasn't the issue. So, to everyone: old proxies and old fingerprints still work, start from there! And if my latest test works, even the old way of creating accounts still works.
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Do you think it can be botted as well?
 
Manually, it's even easier to work than before. The results I shared earlier are with bots
 
I think the most important now for reddit is proxies..
Anti detect browser didnt work that good.
 
SMMDOGE said:
I think the most important now for reddit is proxies..
Anti detect browser didnt work that good.
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If the anti-detection browser doesn’t work, nothing works. Proxies and fingerprints are equally important.
 
The main requirement for working on a reddit is to mimic a real user as much as possible. Simple and complex at the same time. And of course proxies and fingerprints.
 
ToNice said:
I can guarantee it's not difficult, but we spent a week on it, testing 100 types of proxies, working on fingerprints, yet that wasn't the issue. So, to everyone: old proxies and old fingerprints still work, start from there! And if my latest test works, even the old way of creating accounts still works.
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I told days before on this forum its not about proxies or anti browser but the accounts history

assigns a score to each created account
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Correct but sometimes even legit actions on an account get banned.
If you know what is the trigger you can avoid it and gain good score/trust
 
ESCROWService said:
I told days before on this forum its not about proxies or anti browser but the accounts history


Correct but sometimes even legit actions on an account get banned.
If you know what is the trigger you can avoid it and gain good score/trust
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Thank you for your explanation, but if you don't want to say it, it could be true or not for me, so...
 
You are correct in assuming that Reddit has enhanced its security level and started measuring an account's worth using its Contributor Quality Score (CQS). The CQS is assigned as follows: highest, high, moderate, low, or lowest.

Their internal security system keeps checking the CQS of each account and performs functions accordingly.

You can check your CQS account on r/WhatIsMyCQS. Make a post and an automod will provide your account's current CQS for you.

I hope this helps!
 
What if they just give more importance to mouse movements? Bots can not fake these kind of random movements, at least not easily. Maybe reddit records your mouse displacements, pauses, clicks, and build some kind of heat map and then compare this with their stats to determine if you're a bot.
just fooda for thoughts, I guess they do much more in depth analysis than this but mouse movements are a giveaway. I think that's how the cloudflare antibot works.
 
Carlisle said:
You are correct in assuming that Reddit has enhanced its security level and started measuring an account's worth using its Contributor Quality Score (CQS). The CQS is assigned as follows: highest, high, moderate, low, or lowest.

Their internal security system keeps checking the CQS of each account and performs functions accordingly.

You can check your CQS account on r/WhatIsMyCQS. Make a post and an automod will provide your account's current CQS for you.

I hope this helps!
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Personally, I don't think that's it... I've already tried and retried, and the results were surprising: low-quality accounts posted many comments, while high-quality accounts were banned on the first attempt. It's basically a lottery.
 
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