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Doesn't the bot respond with a link to the saved video, which other users can then download without having to call the bot again? Whenever I've seen that bot or

Doesn't the bot respond with a link to the saved video, which other users can then download without having to call the bot again? Whenever I've seen that bot or similar ones in a thread, the top one gets upvoted and duplicates get downvoted to the point of being hidden. This seems like the upvote/downvote system working as intended.

AshamedCaptain 5y ago
No, not really. Open _any_ video thread from the frontpage from yesterday and you will find multiple references to savevideo, getvideobot, downloadvideo, etc. All of them are different, competing bots participating in this spam race. Not to mention websites where there is no karma or equivalent (e.g. Twitter) and you just can't skip the spam to threadunroller or videodownloader or whatever.
- foobar33333 5y ago
  Clearly all of these bots show there is a serious flaw with reddit that you can not just download videos like you could with the old external video service links that reddit used to be filled with. Especially ironic considering most of reddit videos are downloaded and reposted from tiktok.
- pseudo0 5y ago
  Top video result from the last week - https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ogu570/the_traitor/ https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ogu570/the_traitor/ One bot with +70 that's somewhat visible, a couple just barely above the "load more comments" filter with +3. #2 result - https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ofl4jt/i_etched_a_squid_into_a_chef_knife/ https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ofl4jt/i_... No bots without clicking to load more comments. Really though it's the fault of Reddit (or Twitter, ...) for deliberately disabling users' ability to right-click and download videos like normal. This is entirely a self-inflicted problem.
  - AshamedCaptain 5y ago
    Even on the link you just shared I already see 3 messages, without expanding any link. u/getvideobot u/RedditMP4Bot u/redditmp4bot When I expand for comments, I basically see _all_ of the bots mentioned.

AshamedCaptain 5y ago

No, not really. Open _any_ video thread from the frontpage from yesterday and you will find multiple references to savevideo, getvideobot, downloadvideo, etc. All of them are different, competing bots participating in this spam race. Not to mention websites where there is no karma or equivalent (e.g. Twitter) and you just can't skip the spam to threadunroller or videodownloader or whatever.

foobar33333 5y ago
Clearly all of these bots show there is a serious flaw with reddit that you can not just download videos like you could with the old external video service links that reddit used to be filled with. Especially ironic considering most of reddit videos are downloaded and reposted from tiktok.
pseudo0 5y ago
Top video result from the last week - https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ogu570/the_traitor/ https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ogu570/the_traitor/ One bot with +70 that's somewhat visible, a couple just barely above the "load more comments" filter with +3. #2 result - https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ofl4jt/i_etched_a_squid_into_a_chef_knife/ https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ofl4jt/i_... No bots without clicking to load more comments. Really though it's the fault of Reddit (or Twitter, ...) for deliberately disabling users' ability to right-click and download videos like normal. This is entirely a self-inflicted problem.
- AshamedCaptain 5y ago
  Even on the link you just shared I already see 3 messages, without expanding any link. u/getvideobot u/RedditMP4Bot u/redditmp4bot When I expand for comments, I basically see _all_ of the bots mentioned.