r/TheseFuckingAccounts • u/TimeKeepsPassing1 • 11d ago

Indian bot account dedicated to spreading hate speech and xenophobia has achieved nearly 200 000 karma in 2 months.

This account chicken-tandoor entire profile history is the user being racist and xenophobic. Each and every single post of his is attacking Muslims, Arabs, Pakistanis or Palestinians.

He only posts in Indian subreddits and has achieved his karma through them.

https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=author%3A%22chicken-tandoor%22&type=posts&sort=top&cId=6b97b237-7b72-4632-a8fd-52a645c4a986&iId=bc0a062c-0b10-4a8c-af5e-5aefd3dd6f49

This is the individuals post history. Something needs to be done.

Some examples out of hundreds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDankMemes/comments/1wq0lnh/guys/ (Call for genocide)

https://www.reddit.com/r/indiadiscussion/comments/1wya0k3/japan_is_where_europe_was_20_years_ago/ (Hate speech)

https://www.reddit.com/r/dankindianmemes/comments/1wxfjka/ya_allah_yeh_theek_nahi_hua/ (Hate speech)

https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthernIndia/comments/1wuz7an/the_real_reason_for_this_hatred_against_a/ (Hate speech)

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTeensIndia/comments/1wp5h1i/knock_knock/ (Hate speech)

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u/Old-Information3311 11d ago

I feel like there is some new variation of "teensindia" subreddits every day, always full of bots

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u/Thecrawsome 11d ago

You can’t even keep up with all the shitty Indian subs. Everyone is just a copy of another subject with the word India in front of it, and they all repost the same articles.

Just showing that the Reddit model is broken. Anyone can just make a sub, fill it with noise then have it get to the front page.

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u/spacemoses 7d ago

Multiple subs of just about every topic seem to be popping up everywhere. And some of them magically seem to have like 1.5m users/visitors/whatever already? I used to be excited to find new relevant subs, but everything nowadays I just assume is bot farm garbage.

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u/failtuna 11d ago

As a slight aside, Reddit really needs to consider allowing regional filtering as an option. 

I know they won't, because they want engagement, and theyve built a system that runs on ragebait, clickbait, and flamewars.

I often comment on how the Indian specific subreddits feel like the pre/early 2010s internet, in a bad way, with all the old memes and posting style, but now the bad actors are bots who don't sleep and can reply instantly to 20 arguments, with decades of internet bullshit as training data. 

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u/BigBadVoodooMami 10d ago

I worry about some of the India subreddits. It seems like they get away with violating Reddit rules in a way other big subs don’t. I wonder if it’s a language issue?

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u/Joezev98 11d ago

I don't think this fits the r/TheseFuckingAccounts type.
The first post about Netanyahu being a cancer doctor is certainly egregious and the admins should take a look at that. However, that last one is just a faithful interpretation of the Quran and the second to last post literally is just a direct quote from the Quran. I agree that the command "fight those people" is hate speech, but calling that out, isn't.

So, yes, this person ain't exactly innocent, but he doesn't fit the bill of the type of bot spam we're fighting here.

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u/redrumham707 11d ago

200,000 karma in 2 months points to something very sketchy going on.

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u/Silverr_Duck 11d ago

Mocking religion and hate speech are not interchangeable concepts OP

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u/TimeKeepsPassing1 11d ago

I think someone else calling billions of people “cancer” that is cured by Netanyahu in the first post and dehumanizing in the rest is quite clearly hate speech and not simply mocking religion.

But what do I know?

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u/Silverr_Duck 11d ago

And the post calling out how Islam treats women? You gonna sit there and tell me that’s hate speech too?