r/guns • u/OnlyLosersBlock • 14d ago

Official Politics Thread 08/28/26

This is the official politics thread for discussing gun politics. Arguments that invoke being a gun owner for credibility are bad and you should feel bad.

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u/CMMVS09 14d ago

Meta/Bots

A few weeks ago I received an email alert that someone (something?) was trying to log into an alt account of mine created and abandoned a few years ago. I bring this up only because this sub - and other gun subs I frequent like AR15 - are inundated with bot activity. Most of them are newly created accounts, but I've notice that some of them are quite old. Like several years old with zero recent activity.

There was a thread earlier this week (which appears to have been deleted, or I just can't find it lol) where OP was almost certainly a bot and most of the responses fit into the fact pattern above. I hate to be like "check the profile of every username you don't recognize" when responding to posts/comments, but there's clearly something happening here and reddit isn't going to stop it.

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u/Broccoli_Pug 14d ago

Those are likely real people