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Lots of reddit is already pretty useless, drowning in people who are desperate to sound clever by regurgitating one of the same 50 meme jokes with some minor tw
by lamontcg 4y ago
Lots of reddit is already pretty useless, drowning in people who are desperate to sound clever by regurgitating one of the same 50 meme jokes with some minor twist to it. And the astroturfing on the political reddits are likely to start hitting the niche ones with products getting pushed by manufacturers. Just buy accounts that have been built by bots on front-page subreddits, then have them make AI-driven positive comments on the niche subreddits and now you've got organic-looking advertisement for your product. Moderators likely won't help since they are there mostly to keep the trolls out (or they're more focused on whatever political axe they're grinding).
- duskwuff 4y agoReddit is also having some pretty serious problems with bots reposting highly upvoted content, both in posts and comments. Sometimes it gets spotted -- especially when the bots pick content which was specific to some point in time, or when they repost a comment out of context -- but a lot of it goes unnoticed, especially in comment threads.