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During the first version of /r/place, there was some mechanism in place to reduce the use of bots such as a CAPTCHA and not allowing newly created accounts to p
by haskaalo 4y ago
During the first version of /r/place, there was some mechanism in place to reduce the use of bots such as a CAPTCHA and not allowing newly created accounts to place pixels.
However, this year I feel like they gave up on all of that simply to gain more users.
- blamazon 4y agoNotably, Reddit is planning to IPO this year. [1] [1] https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-announces-confidential-submission-of-draft-registration-statement-related-to-proposed-public-offering https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-announces-confidential...
- MonkeyIsNull 4y agooh no.
- toper-centage 4y agoThat explains why they allowed new accounts to participate. There were probably hundreds of thousands of new bot accounts created over the weekend.
- yreg 4y agoAlso hundreds of thousands human accounts as well to be fair. Whether they will stick around remains to be seen.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoThere was a reddit admin using both their admin power (no cooldown) and a bot. The whole thing jumped the shark, big time.