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Using this low of a contrast (dark red on dark background) is criminal. Maybe my eyes are just that bad but good lord those notes are hard to read
This just proves that OP is not a bot, he is a dumb human like us
News flash: it’s not just ask Reddit. It’s Reddit entirely. That place is a removed of bots.
Beep, boop! I am a bot, and this action was performed naturally.
Am I really a bot though?
The theory of the empty internet is looming. ;)
AskReddit was a junk pit anyway, so it would not be a loss, even if it wasn’t reddit.
So… I could sell my Reddit Account? 10 Years 20K+ Karma, any bids?
/s
It has been for a long time.
A lot of the site feels like it’s been overrun by bots. The more niche communities seem to still be pretty good (and I do still enjoy engaging in them). But the subs like ask Reddit, Aita and the relationships one? Yea, it all feels like bs.
I think it’s due to the fact that a lot of mods left and the API changes made it harder to auto moderate subs.
If only the niche communities over here were a bit more active. For instance, I’ve been hyperfixating on Tamagotchi, but there isn’t a Tamagotchi community here yet :(
Create one, friend! It’ll start off slow, but it may build up.
You should make one!
I’d like to, but I’ve never really run a community before and I need some pointers 😓
for real!! im also currently fixated on tamagotchis and the tamagotchi sub is the only active community i could find, im pretty sure tamatalk has been dead for a while :[
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Two questions:
- How can you be sure they’re bots?
- Assuming you can be sure (which I entirely doubt), how do you detect and ban them in a way they can’t come back?
- There are patterns of bot-posters, as well as the fact that in many cases the content exists elsewhere online and was copied.
- You can’t really. While you can ban individual accounts, they are able to make more, as I’ve said before it’s very easy to evade bans in ways that prevent easy ban evasion detection on Reddit’s part. It’s also likely that if Reddit is doing it they won’t enforce ban evasion against bots, though I find that option less likely.
You’re not banning anything. Reddit runs the bots
Why isn’t lemmy taken over with bots yet? Is it just a matter of time?
We have a bot problem, but we also have admins/ mods that don’t want to bloat their numbers with bots (mostly). The fediverse helps us hold each other accountable, and if any community is full of bots, you defedirate them. I don’t mind the auto posters that seed content. I like the OSRS update bot, etc…
WHY ARE YOU YELLING
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the average redditor will still insist on appending “Reddit” onto Google searches since it “lets them see real human opinions” only because they can’t discern obvious botting from genuine human interactions
A lot of the botting is just copy and pasting previous actual human topics and comments though, so they’re not really wrong.
Actual bot created content is pretty boring, and never “contributes” in a way that would make for a useful Google result. Your Google result may be a bot’s comment, but if that comment is answering a question of some kind there’s a 99% chance the comment was originally written by a human.
The content of bots (the desired ones) is at least not banned or removed by anyone. For example, I feel socially excluded by the Reddit and para-Reddit communities because whenever I write something a bit more controversial, it immediately ends up in the trash.
copying and pasting a comment is still less genuine, since that promotes stale and outdated information. It can also create the false idea of a “widely held” opinion rather than a single person’s opinion copied a dozen times.
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promotes stale and outdated information. It can also create the false idea of a “widely held” opinion
Clue
Reddit is a cesspool.
The worst part is that they’re all really fucking bland questions. The shit you’d see on Facebook.
They’re engagement fodder designed to elicit human responses to provide a larger training dataset for future LLMs. That and to drive up Reddit usage and engagement numbers.
Some may have been copied directly from Facebook since most bot posts copy from ones humans have made before.
If reddit hadn’t locked their API behind absurd paywalls, it would have been a cool project to try to make a browser plugin that gives accounts a “credit score” based on the factors you’ve been looking at, in order to let users quickly judge how likely an account is a bot.
It could let people adjust the metrics it uses to calculate that score in the settings, so even if it becomes popular enough for bots to start trying to game the system, people can adapt their scoring metrics themselves and share config profiles that they think are more effective at rating bots.
Might be something cool to see for activitypub/fediverse/lemmy accounts, but with the data available varying by instance it might be a little harder to calibrate a “catch-all” scoring config
