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Instagram thinking I'm a robot

  • November 23, 2025
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viki

Hi, I use software for the reels I upload to Instagram. In the last reels Instagram identified me as a robot and gave me a week's penalty without being able to respond to the messages I receive / write messages in my chat
How do I avoid this? I'm sure using the MANTCHAT software caused me to receive the penalty. If I have a large amount of messages on a video how can I respond without Instagram thinking I'm a robot

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rodrigo_silvano
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  • Manychat Community Moderator
  • November 24, 2025

Hey, ​@viki 

Manychat is a big Meta’s Partner, so you won’t be in trouble using it.

 

Meta use a lot of robots to prevent accounts to spam other users, so if you are answering in one video the exact same thing to thousands of people, Meta will flag your account, even if you do that manually.

So, the best way to not being flagged by Meta, for example, is generating different comment replies to the same post/reel.

Please read this thread and it will give you some guidance: 


Let me know if you have further questions 🙂​​​​


viki
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  • November 25, 2025

can you help me how i generating different comment replies to the same post/reel.

Do you mean the possibility of 3 different experienced messages in response to Briles himself?
Or do you mean that it is possible to formulate different messages that people receive in private chat


rodrigo_silvano
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  • Manychat Community Moderator
  • November 26, 2025

@viki 

I meant the 3 comment replies that Manychat pre-set during the automation creation.
Add as many as you can and diverse. Don't use the same expression there.

Example:
 

  1. Thank you! See your inbox!
  2. Yeah 🙌🏼 Did you receive my message?
  3. Go go go! ✨ Please make sure to check your messages requests!
  4. Link sent!

Fabio Gaulke
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  • Manychat Community Moderator
  • November 26, 2025

Hey, ​@viki! ​@rodrigo_silvano already said all you need, but here are some extra tips:

  • You can set up to 20 custom replies. Use all of them 😅
  • Once you click to create a new one, Manychat already suggest something “generic”
  • If you want to customize it more to you stile of communication, ask ChatGPT (or any other AI) to create 20 responses based on some text/contente you provide.
  • And (IMPORTANT) if you have high engaging posts (1000+ comments per post), disable the auto reply after some time. Even with 20 response variables, Meta could think that your account is doing something suspicious, because it's unlikely that a human could respond thousands of comments in a super short period of time. (I always create two similar triggers, but one with the responses and other without. So, I can switch it with just two clicks).

😉


viki
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  • November 30, 2025

I don't understand the problem, what
I did SMART DELAY
and create 3 responses based on some text
I uploaded a reel and after 600 comments I was blocked again
How does that make sense?
I contacted Meta and they have nothing to say about it. They say that it's probably because it's spam messages
I see bloggers with 5000 and even 8000 comments and there's no blocking
How does that make sense
that after 600 messages it's blocked


viki
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  • November 30, 2025

Hey, ​@viki! ​@rodrigo_silvano already said all you need, but here are some extra tips:

  • You can set up to 20 custom replies. Use all of them 😅
  • Once you click to create a new one, Manychat already suggest something “generic”
  • If you want to customize it more to you stile of communication, ask ChatGPT (or any other AI) to create 20 responses based on some text/contente you provide.
  • And (IMPORTANT) if you have high engaging posts (1000+ comments per post), disable the auto reply after some time. Even with 20 response variables, Meta could think that your account is doing something suspicious, because it's unlikely that a human could respond thousands of comments in a super short period of time. (I always create two similar triggers, but one with the responses and other without. So, I can switch it with just two clicks).

😉

I don't understand the problem, what
I did SMART DELAY
and create 3 responses based on some text
I uploaded a reel and after 600 comments I was blocked again
How does that make sense?
I contacted Meta and they have nothing to say about it. They say that it's probably because it's spam messages
I see bloggers with 5000 and even 8000 comments and there's no blocking
How does that make sense
that after 600 messages it's blocked


viki
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  • November 30, 2025

@viki 

I meant the 3 comment replies that Manychat pre-set during the automation creation.
Add as many as you can and diverse. Don't use the same expression there.

Example:
 

  1. Thank you! See your inbox!
  2. Yeah 🙌🏼 Did you receive my message?
  3. Go go go! ✨ Please make sure to check your messages requests!
  4. Link sent!

I don't understand the problem, what
I did SMART DELAY
and create 3 responses based on some text
I uploaded a reel and after 600 comments I was blocked again
How does that make sense?
I contacted Meta and they have nothing to say about it. They say that it's probably because it's spam messages
I see bloggers with 5000 and even 8000 comments and there's no blocking
How does that make sense
that after 600 messages it's blocked


rodrigo_silvano
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  • Manychat Community Moderator
  • November 30, 2025

Hey ​@viki 

Can you share with us come screenshots and/or screen recording about your automation flow?


viki
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  • December 4, 2025

Hey ​@viki 

Can you share with us come screenshots and/or screen recording about your automation flow?

 


viki
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  • December 4, 2025

Hey ​@viki 

Can you share with us come screenshots and/or screen recording about your automation flow?

 

 


viki
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  • December 4, 2025

Hey ​@viki 

Can you share with us come screenshots and/or screen recording about your automation flow?

 

 

Actually, I don't understand why only 369 are listed because there were close to 600 comments in the reels itself.


rodrigo_silvano
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  • Manychat Community Moderator
  • December 5, 2025

Hey ​@viki 

Your automation looks good. 👌🏼
Regarding the number of people reached, this can happen when Meta flag accounts as spam and doesn’t let Manychat (or other third parties apps) send messages.

When you have a lot of comments, Manychat applies a mechanism to prevent your account been flagged as a spam account.
 

(https://help.manychat.com/hc/en-us/articles/14281316989724-Instagram-Post-and-Reel-Comments-Trigger)

So the likely cause is your public replies that you’ve set on your automation.