Can we restrict posting for new and low-karma accounts? The sub is getting spammed by bots promoting AI websites.

Reddit r/AI_Agents 08/18/26, 04:19 PM News

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Summary

A Reddit user expresses frustration with bots spamming AI-generated content and suggests restricting new or low-karma accounts to improve the community.

It's all slop, and I'm so tired of it. At one point we used to come to Reddit and get great information, but it's all AI slop now. So I looked at the accounts making these comments, and they are all just new accounts or accounts with low karma I can show you examples, but that would just be me promoting their ai slop site

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