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I built a Reddit posting bot. Account got banned in 2h. Honest scorecard.

DEV Community·isabelle dubuis·about 1 month ago
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I built a Reddit posting bot for my SEO agency. Here's the honest scorecard. Built a Reddit posting bot for my SEO agency. Goal: stop spending 5h/week on social presence busywork. Final stack after rewrites Apify scans subs, scores threads on intent + age + engagement OpenAI gpt-4o-mini drafts posts and comments (cheap, ~$0.002/draft) Playwright on old.reddit.com submits (new Reddit UI fights you on every selector) JSON files for state. No DB, no queue, no Docker. What worked Comments landed from day 1. Posted on r/SEO, got real replies. Cooldown logic (7d/sub) stopped me from spamming the same place twice. Found 13 safe subs by scraping each sub's about.json + rules.json. Filter out karma minimums and anything over 1M subs (heavy automod). What broke First 3 self-posts got nuked silently by AutoModerator. Account was 3 months old, 1 karma, email unverified. Reddit's spam classifier reads account age x karma x verified flags before it reads content. My success detection looked at page URL after submit.…

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