Reddit Upvotes and Bots: 5 Upvotes Doesnt Mean Theyre Fake
βIf every comment from a Reddit user has 5 upvotes than the upvotes are botsβ
Summary
Consistently receiving exactly five upvotes on every comment does not automatically indicate bot involvement. Reddit upvote counts naturally vary, and while bot farms exist, detection relies on broader voting patterns rather than a fixed upvote number per comment. Therefore, the statement is not supported by the evidence.
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- How Do Reddit Upvotes Work in 2025? | BlackHatWorld
Pro Tip: Submit 2 or 3 upvote orders per comment, on different speeds as opposed to one order set at XX per hour. Do bot upvotes still work, or are they easily detected now? YES. They work incredibly well. Providing you're using suitable accounts FOR THE SUBREDDIT YOU TARGET. An account you buy that will may work well on a 20k or less member subreddit will not perform the same on a 50k, 100k, etc.
- Reddit Upvote Botting | BlackHatWorld
As for those successful posts, they might use a mix of manual and bot activity or even highly specialized bots. Test small first to avoid unnecessary bans. ... Completely depends on the quality of accounts delivering the upvotes.
- Does Reddit have a bot problem? Absolutely.
One person they spoke to showed a program that automatically uses thousands of proxies to log in and out of bought accounts; the results allow him to charge people for guaranteed, genuine upvotes on whatever content they want. ... Unsurprisingly, businesses have quickly caught on to the fact they can pay to harness the power of Reddit bot army. In fact, thereβs a whole subreddit dedicated to calling out companies who create bots and advertise themselves in this way in all the comments: r/HailCorporate.
- How Does Reddit Detect Multi-Account Bot Operations in 2026? | Conbersa
... Reddit detects vote manipulation by tracking vote patterns across accounts that share IP ranges, device fingerprints, or browsing sessions. The system flags clusters of accounts that consistently upvote the same posts and comments within ...
- How Reddit Bot Detection Works (4 Layers Explained)
A 2024 study published by researchers at Binghamton University found that behavioral analysis alone could identify reddit bot accounts with 96% accuracy when models were trained on posting rhythm, comment depth, and subreddit diversity metrics.
- Are Reddit Upvotes Safe to Buy? Risks & How to Stay Clean | REDAccs
These accounts pass detection checks. Vote velocity anomalies. A post that receives 50 upvotes in 3 minutes when similar posts in the subreddit typically get 5-10 in the first hour triggers pattern recognition.
- r/help on Reddit: Does botting of upvotes on posts/comments exist on Reddit?
Ive tested it out on another account, I made 7 new accounts and upvoted my nonsense gibberish comments on all of them over the span of two weeks and it never detected anything nor did it remove my upvotes.
- r/TheoryOfReddit on Reddit: Bots in reddit that have posts with thousands of upvotes
I went to his profile and then I see that he has a few (3) posts and all of those posts are very popular and got a lot of upvotes (any of his comments actually are not really popular and there is only 2 of them, 1 of which got deleted by a mod) There is 0%, just 0 activity that could be related to what he advertised to me. Well, with this Im kinda sure its a bot.
- [Mature Content] r/NewToReddit on Reddit: Can I trust upvotes at all on reddit due to upvote bots?
There are not that many upvote bots. Upvotes can vary wildly just normally. Tonight I has a post with 2.2K upvotes followed by a post in the 20s. It is just what clicked. It may also depend on the subreddit.