I've noticed a trend lately here. Slightly "off" but not crazy posts which have no karma, no post history but are 1 year old accounts. They only just started posted. The names are obviously randomly generated.

At first it was "odd" now its gotten into "I think something is up". I won't call any of these out but you can do your own there.

For those of you not familiar with how reddit works, old accounts are worth money, sometimes a lot of money. I could currently sell my original account I haven't used in 4 years now, for well over $1000 due to its very high karma and age. People who want to manipulate, scam, or promote love these accounts because people assume they have to be real people.

Basically if a new account says "Hey I've used product X for years and its fantastic, I'll never use product Y after these horrible things I'm about to spell out in detail happened!" it sets off shilling alarm bells in most people.

If a old 100k karma account said the same? Dudes legit.

(BTW one way to spot these is they have a bunch of posts from years ago a LONG break period and then suddenly post in completely different reddits. Example I once saw as a 9 year old account which posted in all the soccer sub reddits and then after 4 years started only posting about US politics in propaganda talking points, and seemed to not care at all about soccer anymore. Sometimes they delete their post history before they sell so there is that red flag but not "For sure" thing too, some people delete their history for privacy.)

Checking the "black market" sites, you can buy an account with zero karma but 1 year old for around $5. People mass generate these things and sit on them, sell, profit.

I know a lot of people who come to /r/swingers are not very seasoned redditors, some not very seasoned internet users. This btw is very apparent with some of the mod questions and requests we get.

So with a confirmed outing of a former mod here recently by malicious actors, BE SMART. This might be nothing, might be just one person who wants to be a creative writer, someone doing research on swinging, or someone who wants you to DM trying to help them with their problem and will get your trust and exploit it in some way.

I am hoping this is just a really strange coincidence, but I've seen enough crazy things online to know its a very strong possibility something is up.

I've been swinging a long time without issue, so if you are new realize this isn't much of a swinging problem, don't let it scare you off, but just be cognizant of reddits flaws, think of it more of a Craig's listing than a real community.