Is it? Reddit has been full of bots for years.

And if the r/CMV thing didn't make it apparently, the recent wave of them weren't "caught in the act" and only became a "problem" when the researchers announced their shitty experiment.

If realistic chat bots can fool the masses, why on earth would reddit get rid of them? It helps their metrics. "Look at how active our site is! Buy stock!"

I know you enjoy hating on Reddit but what you're saying doesn't make any sense. Reddit is an advertising business. Bots don't view advertising but adds infrastructure cost. Additionally, humans are way better at engagement with the platform and people than bots.

Additionally additionally, as it says in the article, reddit sells its content to OpenAI, and in order to do that, they need it to be organic. If you feed AI output back info AI, it makes the output worse, not better. So, there's another financial incentive to ensure that the people talking on reddit are actually human.

I would like to remind you of two things. The first is that reddit used to have a mod tool called "BotDefense". It's shutdown in July of 2023 directly lead to a major uptick in Spam Bots.

The second is that part of the ad revenue is "impressions". Impressions are just an account (bot or human) "viewing" the ad and they do not require a click-through. The platform hosting the ad still gets paid for those.

The bots post better comments than most of their users.

It's already happening, I see I opened accounts but none of my comment gets posted with accounts I don't know why , this is with new accounts

Same happened to me, all my old accounts which I had for years got banned for no reason and new accounts gets banned as soon as I comment.

Someone could create a forum for bots to discuss with each other. Call it Redbit. The bot could even steal questions from quora, reddit, Xitter, and every other forum, various AI bots can then reply to those questions with the best replies.

Fuck reddit, It's a shithole.

step one: ban everyone who writes an emdash

Sometimes I have to return for various reasons. God. Some of them have absolutely bled over to the fediverse, but holy HELL are the people and the culture there messed up. I don't know if it's getting worse or I'm healing.

I like em dashes. I learned the alt code for en and em dashes just so I could use them easily on a computer. There is a difference between a hypen and an en dash, and a double-hyphen is but a simulacrum of the em dash!

• Hyphen is just for double-barrelled words
• An en dash is useful – at least sometimes – for inserting side thoughts
• ah boy I sure hope an em dash doesn't interrupt m—

But let's be real, I type kinda formally, like an AI, sooo

Personally I feel like I am healing. I haven't signed into reddit since they bent the knee to musk. I have noticed that I have become less toxic. I still go off half cocked like an idiot but I have been more tactful about it. I hope to keep working on it because I honestly never noticed until I had been away from reddit for a few weeks.

I haven’t signed into reddit since they bent the knee to musk.

What did I miss here? Reddit hates musk.....

Your IP address/device fingerprint has been blacklisted. They do daily (possibly a few times throughout the day) automated bans of any accounts that visit the site from IPs of users they have banned. Commenting automatically triggers an IP check so you're banned instantly, but if you didn't even comment your account would be banned by the end of the day.

I tested this after I wiped and deleted my accounts back when they made all the API changes. They undeleted my account, undeleted all of my posts, and then permanently banned my account. I then signed in to one of my alt accounts that has never commented to see if they had banned it, and they hadn't - until a few hours later when it was permanently banned for "ban evasion". I created a new account to see what would happen - same thing. I then turned on the built in VPN on a browser and set it to always be active when on reddits domain and made a new account, and that account to this day is still not banned.

Spez doesn't

How did they bend the knee to musk is what I’m asking.

Started banning everyone who says mean things about Tesla and musk. Banned whole subreddits for him.

Edit: oh it’s fucking you, of course it fucking is. How much they paying you?