Reddit as been receiving spam forever, mostly blog spam. A simple type of spam that consist in stealing other's creative content and blog it as is on a "fake" blog site for the sole purpose of getting ads clicks.

But with my last submission I noticed a far more aggressive technique which could eventually lead to the demise of Reddit if they don't react promptly.

I don't submit a lot to Reddit and I prefer to submit my own content. So when I submit something of my own I usually go back to my submission 3~4 times in the day to see if people liked it or not.

Usually after 1h I know if a submission will be a hit or not. But with my submission today, the downvotes and upvotes oddly seemed to constantly even out themselves.

If I got a upvote, I also got a downvote right after.

Then it hit me: Bots.

I started to refresh the page every ~2 seconds, and sure enough, up votes and down votes where constantly changing. Something like a wobble, that's not the kind of behavior usually seen on reddit, at least not in such a short time frame.

To demonstrate what I mean I made a gif animation of the screenshots I made, keep in mind that this "stop animation" was made within a one minute time frame, not hours.

Noticing any strange pattern ?

It's pretty damn obvious that someone is trying hard to keep this submission at zero points.

Why ? I don't know exactly, but there could be many reasons. Like, well, who gets on the front page and who's not.

I hope that Reddit will react promptly and adequately to this threat because this minority of Redditors are ruining the Reddit experience for every other users and will eventually success to completely suck out the joy of Redditing.

– A nearly ex-Redditor