I don’t browse reddit anymore but when searching for solutions to various problems, many times I end up on a reddit thread with the answers. I haven’t posted or commented since the exodus but I almost always have a red notification icon. And every time curiosity gets the better of me and I click it, it’s a reply to a comment I left years ago.

I usually mark it as read and ignore it but last night curiosity got the better of me and I looked at the user’s profile…lots of comments, all on ancient posts.

If they’re bots, I’m actually kind of impressed. They’d be good and relevant comments if they were posted when the thread was active. I searched for some of the unique replies and the only result was the comment in question so it’s not just copying replies. I just checked again while posting this and have a new reply - a question about a game tip I posted.

So is it someone farming 1 comment at a time or a sophisticated LLM? I’m leaning the latter but like I said… it’s an impressive one. If I didn’t know that reddit was full of bots, I wouldn’t have even questioned it.

Anyone else have the same “issue”?

  • Kedly@lemm.ee
    16·
    4 months ago

    Reddit is cutting off comments early and suggesting “threads like this”, most of which are multiple years old

    • palordrolap@kbin.run
      12·
      4 months ago

      Hahaha. “Don’t look at the rubbish we have now, have a look at this quality content we had before Spez sold the last bit of his soul.”

    • glimse@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      4 months ago

      Interesting…this seems like the most likely reason. They DO seem like real people but I’ve been fooled before