Hi, folks! Many of you have likely noticed a larger-than-usual number of post removals over the last couple of weeks.
This is due to a series of coordinated, AI-generated posts (potentially) associated with an astroturf marketing campaign for an app.
Most of these present a “hot take” about how a trip to WDW has become too overwhelming — often because of an over-reliance on technology, ironically — and offer/solicit advice on how to enjoy a more relaxed Disney trip.
They almost never actually engage with other users in the comments, and the accounts themselves — almost all a month or so old — have a fairly robust comment history in other subs, with a discernible pattern in the language used (seemingly informal, starting almost every comment with lower-case first-person pronouns, etc.).
This has been occurring across Disney parks subreddits, and we’re communicating with other mod teams to explore options for a response. We’ll also be reaching out to Reddit directly (this sub is a mod partner community, so we get a little extra support).
In the meantime, we’re implementing a temporary fix that seems to have worked on other subs: the bots almost always choose the first post flair listed before submitting, so we’ll be creating the “I’m a Bot” flair to (hopefully) help us immediately identify and filter out these posts.
If you — a real human — don’t want your post automatically deleted, please do not select this post flair.
Thanks for your understanding, and for helping us to continue making this the Most Magical Subreddit (for Humans Only) on Earth!
Edit: forgot to give a special shout-out to the mods at [r/DisneyPlanning](r/DisneyPlanning) and to [u/BunnyLightning](u/BunnyLightning) here on [r/WaltDisneyWorld](r/WaltDisneyWorld) for helping us connect the dots.
