r/ValueInvesting now using BotBouncer - What to do if you're banned accidentally
u/FutureOmelet ·
Reddit — r/ValueInvesting
· April 16, 2026 at 16:01
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Post is about r/ValueInvesting implementing BotBouncer to combat spam and AI-generated comments, with guidance for users accidentally banned.
Author's thesis is to inform the community about this moderation tool and provide steps to resolve false bans.
Quality assessment: Noise – no investment analysis, speculation, or research; purely administrative announcement.
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Hello Value Investors. Our subreddit has started using a new Reddit tool called BotBouncer to help combat spam and AI chatbot comment responses. BotBouncer is a Reddit-wide tool that detects and records lists of suspected bot accounts, and then can be used to automatically block or ban those accounts from subreddits like ours.
So far on the first day, we saw a small number of accounts of real people banned by the tool by mistake. On the other hand, we saw many accounts posting spam or obvious AI-generated replies blocked and banned too.
If you are a real person and you get banned by BotBouncer, there are directions in your ban email to appeal (the email will say it was done by BotBouncer rather than one of us mods). Please appeal your ban by modmail, and we will investigate and get it straightened out.
Thanks, fellow humans!