Bot Bouncer Shows Reddit Spam Gaps

Report-only moderation tools are useful triage, not a real fix. The thread reads like another reminder that AI spam is now human-enough to slip past simple filters while still leaving obvious LLM fingerprints.

• –Bot Bouncer is built to classify and ban bots in participating subreddits, but its docs also support a report-only mode when moderators want to validate accuracy first.
• –Reddit's own spam systems can still shadowban accounts, yet the thread suggests moderators are doing a lot of the actual detection work.
• –Style-based heuristics are getting weaker as spam bots adopt the same bland, polished writing patterns people associate with LLMs.
• –For AI-heavy communities, the problem is less "can we spot bots?" and more "can we keep the feed usable without nuking real users?"
• –Open-source moderation tooling helps, but it does not replace platform-level anti-spam detection.