New Rule 0 for /r/financialindependence – Karma posting requirement. The war against bots continues.

Hey FIRE people. I've been around Reddit a long time, and done various stints of moderation. There are always things that are happening on the internet that come and go and effect how we moderate this subreddit. Our mod team wants to give full transparency and talk to you about a big shift we're seeing here and on other subs.

Fuckin' bots.

We've been seeing a HUGE influx of top-level posts that essentially are AI/bots. Now, you might have spotted some of these in the past, or looked at a post and thought that it looked funny. But they're getting different/better. Just yesterday, we removed dozens of top-level posts. /u/Zphr alone found 2 or 3 posts in which a bot had taken a popular post that he created months ago, jumbled around some of the paragraphs, and changed some of the capitalization before reposting it.

It is becoming harder and harder to go through all of the posts being created, and try to do deep research on each one to verify it's authenticity.

From now on, we have an automoderator rule that will immediately remove posts from accounts that have too-low karma from our subreddit. What does this mean? It means that people need to participate in the Daily Thread to some degree before posting a top-level one.

The only part of this plan that is concerning is that we all value people posting anonymously when they share their financial details. If you need to post using a throwaway, you'll just have to message the mod team first.

TL;DR: Bots made us change the rules.

Mods, feel free to chime in if I missed something.