A guy in a Discord server gave me a 3 word trick for spotting bot replies and it worked 9 times out of 10
I was complaining in a gaming Discord about fake replies on my YouTube videos and a user named KestrelDM dropped a simple test: look for a colon and then a space in the first line of the reply. Bots scrape templates and keep that exact punctuation, real people usually drop it when typing fast. I checked my last 47 comments and the ones with that pattern were all generic praise from accounts created in the last 2 weeks. I flagged 9 of them and every single one got removed after review. It is not perfect because a couple of real folks typed that way too, but it beat my old method of guessing by profile pic. Has anyone else tried punctuation patterns like this, and did it hold up on dating apps too?