Reddit Upvoting Issues

For a few months now I have been using ~40 Reddit accounts to upvote my posts so that they get in front of people as fast as possible. It worked perfectly. In the past week or so, something changed and now the upvotes either no longer count at all or instead of upvoting it adds a downvote to my post. If I create a brand new account and upvote it works about 50% of the time.

My method for doing this has been very simplistic, because I initially thought it wouldn't work. I was just using random 3G phone connections for new IPs, and I was using a new session in chrome incognito mobile. I thought they would have caught on due to fingerprinting (same browser, same phone, etc), but they didn't for months. Until about today, for some reason.

Has anyone else had issues with Reddit as of late?

I am creating a reddit upvote bot now to hopefully get past this. It seems that Reddit creates a fingerprint using fingerprintjs2 and sends that in two "event" requests for each page. If I just spoof that along with the other requests perhaps I can evade detection and send different fingerprints/user agents/screen sizes.

Reddit detects your accounts in waves (apart from new ones. New ones are worthless due to Reddits weighted vote system either needing old accounts, karma or both.). Sometimes a manual report can bring down your whole farm (likely what happened and then they were very easily fingerprinted.)

A headless browser will be a little bit easier to manipulate but if you can do pure requests.. even better!

OP, your methods are easily detected. Having all accounts have the same user-agent is a huge tell-tale sign. Also, they detect vote rings where all accounts vote on the same things. You have to randomize your activity more.

Your idea of changing the fingerprint is a step in the right direction.

Do you post from one or multiple accounts?

JackTheRooster said:

OP, your methods are easily detected. Having all accounts have the same user-agent is a huge tell-tale sign. Also, they detect vote rings where all accounts vote on the same things. You have to randomize your activity more.

Your idea of changing the fingerprint is a step in the right direction.

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Yeah I thought that using the same browser would have been caught easily. But I had been able to (manually) use ~40 brand new accounts on their mobile site to upvote, and the upvotes stuck. And it never added downvotes to counteract my upvotes. That worked for months until recently. I think they may have taken some manual action against me, or something changed.

In the days since I posted this thread I created a python bot to mimic what I was doing before, but now automated and spoofing user agents and other identifiers. I am able to register accounts using my bot and login, subscribe, vote. It is mimicking their mobile website's requests. It is randomly viewing/upvoting posts on its home feed, and then makes sure to upvote my post. I have random sleeps between actions to try and mimic the timing between a real user's requests.

After some testing it seems that a brand new account is allowed to upvote new posts (posted in the past 30 minutes) and only 10% of the time a downvote is added, but if it tries to upvote an older post Reddit will not even upvote and will just downvote instead. Perhaps I could improve this by having the bots get some karma, if Reddit uses that as an indicator.

nst1m said:

Do you post from one or multiple accounts?

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I post from one account. I have the bots randomly upvote other posts and comments, and randomly visit pages, to hopefully blur some correlation. They interact with posts on their home feed, and are subscribed to the subreddits where they will be upvoting my posts. That used to work fine until something changed recently, probably action by an admin.

kotosa said:

I post from one account. I have the bots randomly upvote other posts and comments, and randomly visit pages, to hopefully blur some correlation. They interact with posts on their home feed, and are subscribed to the subreddits where they will be upvoting my posts. That used to work fine until something changed recently, probably action by an admin.

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That might be your problem. If you post from only one account and posts from that account get upvotes from a set of other accounts time to time, Reddit can detect it. This is to prevent the act of 'farming karma'.

Yes, you have to spread out your activity over more accounts.

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Warm your bots account and make your upvote look natural

You are sending one or more accounts at the same time.?

your upvotes should look natural create new account and never trace any footsteps.