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This matches what I see from the mod side. Bots go where moderation is cheap. The only thing that has worked for me is making every removal public with a reason and letting anyone promote their own product openly with a label and a cooldown. When promotion is allowed in the open, there’s much less reason to fake it.
If you have one well moderated forum for normal users and a shit one nobody goes to, the bots will show up at the latter.
If the AI review function doesn’t tell the difference, the bombardment of fakes in the second will tilt review summaries significantly
This matches what I see from the mod side. Bots go where moderation is cheap. The only thing that has worked for me is making every removal public with a reason and letting anyone promote their own product openly with a label and a cooldown. When promotion is allowed in the open, there’s much less reason to fake it.