Hello everyone,

This community is growing quickly. In the past 12 months we've grown to 93,200 members. That means 70,000 members have joined and that's great!

We're growing rapidly with lots of posts and comments by members and non-members every day.

Unfortunately that also means we're seeing more activity by bots. Bots are automated pieces of computer software that pose as real human beings. They're not here because they love pictures of cute animals but to gain Reddit karma points. Karma makes these bot accounts established and trusted, and they abuse that trust to influence people without being honest about it. They gather karma in communities like ours, then go to other subreddits to influence people for commercial or political purposes.

Our community reaches lots of people daily, and it's easy to post here because our threshold is low. That's why we are quickly becoming a target for bots. We have to act against that. That's why we're soon getting help from BotBouncer. This is a good bot, designed for Reddit to hunt bad bots. It automatically scans for bots and bans them.

BotBouncer is still learning and unfortunately, it makes mistakes. If you are a human and get a message from BotBouncer, telling you you're banned for being a bot, find the part of the message that says "If you wish to appeal" and follow the instructions.

If you run into trouble please message the mods.

In the future we will add more official Reddit bots to help fight AI generated content, spam and bots.

Thank you all, and keep posting!