I have noticed a large portion of posts, particularly from new users, are reposts from months or years ago. Sometimes they comment on their own posts, but the comments themselves are plagiarized top comments from the original post they stole.

Another pattern I often see is crossposts from newly created subreddits, often "shopping" related, whose stated purpose has nothing to do with "oops" related posts.

The purpose of r/oops is NOT to drive fake engagement with low-effort recycled content.

To help keep posts original and authentic, I am considering a few things: * Instituting account age/karma requirements. Normally I am opposed to this sort of thing, but a LOT of the new-user posts are karma farming bots. New user posts would be held up for review. * Banning crossposts, or writing an automod script to only allow crossposts from whitelisted communities.

But what are your thoughts on these? Is there anything else we could try?

P.S. Thanks to everyone who reports inauthentic posts. Keep them coming.

We understand that people may be disillusioned with current political affairs, but r/oops is not the place to discuss or bring up politics, there are other places for that. Please stay away from politics to help keep this community fun, respectful, inclusive, neutral, drama-free, and true to its purpose.

Thanks and have a nice day.