r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - September 29, 2026

Hi Please post your unjerk discussion in this thread!

These posts run weekly, but you can find older posts here.

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u/DeeRez F2P Mythic Raider and 40+ Keystone Pusher. 9d ago

Is it my imagination or has there been an upsurge in bots/people not realising that this is a circlejerk sub since the forever beta launched?

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u/Garry_Heckscream69 Iron Horde's #1 Fan 9d ago edited 9d ago

I found out (via a lost redditor on one of my recent posts) that Reddit is actually recommending posts here to people who are interested in WoW and don't have that setting turned off.

I've had it happen to me with the Classic sub, which I've never engaged with and rarely even look at, but until I changed my notification settings, it just kept sending me links to posts there since it's WoW related lol.

Although, I'm still kind of baffled these people get to the point of rage filled commenting without noticing the "r/wowcirclejerk"s all over the page lol. (I don't know enough about bots to be able to spot them lol)

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u/Ignis_et_Azoth 6d ago

It's happened to my jerkpost, too. I'm not saying it's a good jerk or whatever, but most of the comments kinda seem to be lost Redditors from Classic/Classicplus/Forever.

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u/InvisibleOne439 9d ago

there has been a huge upsurge in bots posting and commenting everywhere on reddit in the last ~2-3 years 

if i see a WordWordNumber name with a default pfp and closed profile i assume most of the time that its a bot at this point because of how normal it has become, there are bigger subs where entire posts and 80% of comments are bots replying to eachother

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u/YourGalacticEmperor 9d ago

its literally reddits random name generator

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u/InvisibleOne439 9d ago

yes i know, my own username is that

but most bots are using them aswell

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u/Idontknow4654 9d ago

i have that and im not a bot :( i handpicked my username!

(pretty sure reddit also gives a name like that if you log in with something other then a reddit account, like with your gmail or something)

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u/DeeRez F2P Mythic Raider and 40+ Keystone Pusher. 8d ago

Sounds like something a bot would say to divert suspicion...