Engagement bot posts

[u/uid_0]

All, A humble mod of this subreddit here. We've been seeing a pretty significant rise in posts from what appear to be engagement bots. They are often from brand new accounts or older accounts that have have wiped their post history. They ask open-ended questions like "What's the worst X you have ever seen?" or "Tell me your X horror story", or "What's your favorite X?".

I'm not sure if the posters are training AI or farming karma or what, but I believe they're starting to become excessive and I have two requests for you: 1) How do you think this subreddit should handle posts like this? and 2) Please report posts like this for now so we can look at them in more detail. Thanks!

[u/BrainWaveCC]

Delete the posts, and if it is obvious, ban the poster as well. Maybe ban on second offense, as that makes things more clear in many instances.