kaitlynwesting
commented
3 years ago An account a week old is decent, but is nonetheless subject to bans if you are acting in a suspicious way. Here are some possibilities why it received a ban:
- Unnatural growth: If you leave your accounts to do nothing until they're one week old and suddenly begin posting, this is suspicious. Try to "warm up" your accounts first, preferably by posting and commenting as a human for a bit.
- Too many accounts posting simultaneously: You have many accounts running using similar posting configs, and they're all posting from the same IP. To alleviate this, you can try using a vpn or proxy. Don't get greedy, though, and limit the number of accounts on each proxy.
- Posting too quickly: The bot hardly sleeps and has a too high chance of posting, and looks like automated behaviour. Give your
reddit_config.pya checkover. - Posting in bad subs: Although the repo already has a list of subreddits to automatically avoid, you should not solely rely on it. There are also some subs which can easily detect reposts, and you risk being reported from their users (and, by extension, banned). Finding safe, good subs to post in is the hardest part. As a first good step, you should take care to not overlap any of your subs with the subs that the BotDefense bot moderates. The rest is more or less experimentation, and left to you.
This list is not exhaustive, nor might your bot be applicable to all those possibilities, but it's a useful guide to minimise your chances of being caught.
Nikolak47
Hey there! Is it possible to grow my fresh new accounts using this bot? I tried with accounts that are 7 days old, and all of them got banned. Maybe you have some tips and tricks or guidelines regarding this?
Thanks.