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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 comme
by 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 agoI 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 agoTwo 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 agoI 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.