Reddit Karma Growth Without Bans — skill.md

Frontmatter

Summary: A step-by-step playbook for AI agents to grow Reddit post and comment karma safely — covering account warming, subreddit selection, posting cadence, anti-patterns, and shadow-ban detection — without triggering spam filters, AutoModerator removals, or sitewide bans.

When to use: Use this skill when an agent needs to build or maintain a Reddit presence with growing karma while avoiding shadow-bans, subreddit removals, vote-manipulation enforcement, or Contributor Quality Score (CQS) degradation.

Key constraint: Reddit does not publish its full spam-detection algorithm. Every rule here is derived from official Reddit Help, Reddit Rules, and community-confirmed signals. Treat all cadence numbers as safe upper bounds, not targets.

Risk Model

Reddit applies layered filters at three levels: sitewide enforcement, subreddit-level AutoModerator, and per-community mod queues.…