But there is no tell on reddit who is a human without strong opinion biases, who is a human who is uninformed or otherwise biased, who is a human paid to market

But there is no tell on reddit who is a human without strong opinion biases, who is a human who is uninformed or otherwise biased, who is a human paid to market opinion or product, or who is a bot written to market opinion or content. Right now the only value is in the sense of the emporer not having clothes, of people assuming most comments are the first case when they really are more likely to be the last case. Reddit doesn't even pass the eye test. Look at /r/programming. over 6 million subscribed accounts, but the activity is like barely anyone is there. The top three posts of the last 24hrs currently have 72, 218, and 39 comments respectively, and after that engagement falls off to like 0-5 comments a post. So we have around 350 comments a day on a board supposedly subscribed by 6 million account holders. The comment making rate of this community is apparently 0.006%, and a good deal of that is liable to be bot traffic. Dead internet theory is probably right. I should pack up and leave with the rest too I guess.