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> Most of comments you read on reddit are written and/or upvoted by bots I don't think that's true yet. At least regarding the portion of comments written; I h

• 93po 3y ago
  There’s an important distinction here. Most of the comments you read. You being the general you. Most people will read a few dozen comments at most. These comments are overwhelmingly written by bots or inauthentic participants in subreddits like r politics. And they’re the most visible because these same groups also upvote them inauthentically
  • yreg 3y ago
    I just don't think that's the case yet, but we probably have no evidence one way or the other. I don't know about /r/politics since I don't read it, but say in /r/worldnews, /r/europe, /r/ukrainewarvideoreport, /r/noncredibledefence, when I open a thread and pick ten comments at random and then take a look at their user histories I believe most are human.
    • 93po 3y ago
      Two things happen here: 1. bot farms buy stolen/sold accounts that have human comment history 2. bot farms re-post human content and then repost human comments on that content in a huge cycle to mimic the appearance of being human
    • proudeu 3y ago
      I think /r/worldnews is 90% bots, judging by the repeating content and style of writing in comment section. And yes it looks like human would write.
      • yreg 3y ago
        >judging by the repeating content and style of writing in comment section This is how reddit always has been.