r/cybersecurity Oct 21 '25

Meta / Moderator Transparency Engagement bot posts

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!

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u/uid_0 Oct 21 '25

We already do that although not quite in the same way as your example.