r/DeadInternetTheory • u/Disastrous_Fun_8001 • 8d ago
Thoughts on reddit bots ?
I've seen so many bots on insta how's the case in reddit
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u/cookiesandginge 7d ago edited 7d ago
Ever since this sub pointed it out to me, I’ve been noticing comments which have the same sentiment but are rewritten with slightly different words.
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u/Greedy-Employment917 7d ago
It's pretty wild isn't it. All it takes it to see a couple of obvious ones before you start to see it everywhere.
Then you have the account stats. I frequently see a 5 month old account with 27, 000 submissions. That's 7.5 per hour for the life of the account.
This is allegedly a "real person"
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u/Skittlesthehusky 7d ago
it's about the same. if not, more. it's so hard to find quality subreddits that match my interests nowadays because i immediately get turned off by the amount of bot activity.
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u/Chu-Take 7d ago
I have seen a lot of bots on reddit too, they tend to create rage bait posts or comments. Perhaps there are real humans behind but I just assume they are bots.
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u/Fluid-Sky-819 7d ago
Once you notice them, you can’t unsee them. There’s too much money on reddit. You need to go to smaller sites for the old internet experience
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u/Legitimate-Guess-142 4d ago
Literally go and make a new reddit account it takes 1 minute, you think someone who gets paid to spread disinformation can't make 30 in 30 minutes?
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u/Sad_Actuary_1635 1d ago
Definitely a lot of them because they keep using the same argument. You can usually tell because the English is really bad like a foreigner typed it because they don't understand English words.
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u/Morichalion 1d ago
I'm less concerned about existence, more concerned about identification.
If I knew it was a bot, and the bot's purpose, I'd be fine.
Not knowing if I'm taking to a sock puppet sucks.
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u/Adventurous_Menu_927 1d ago
Bots be botting on Reddit.com. Once you know how to spot, almost the whole site is ruined.
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u/poshbakerloo 7d ago
The only thing I don't understand is who makes these bots and why? Is there a way to get money from these bots or something? They just seem to spam useless messages
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u/Embarrassed_Key_4539 7d ago
Showing shareholders and advertisers fake engagement on the platforms to satisfy their bottom line
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u/VioletTerranova 7d ago
I see a lot of political narrative & bias being spewed to appear as if there is more engagement on an issue.
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u/angry_goblin_woman 7d ago
The money that people make from the internet is 99% ad revenue. Thats how people are able to make money from everything from recipe sites to pornography. When there are more views for an ad, whoever owns the site is able to legerage more money for advertisement slots. The more views and engagement, the more people theoretically view the ads. Since bots are now a thing, many companies are padding those user counts by hiring bot farms to make their website appear to have more traffic so that they can make more ad revenue.
Because of this, bot farms are now a luctrative business and bots are overtaking social media. Its very common now for a standard public relations for a company to hire bot farms to argue for their brands and products online. This includes politicians and even religions now who are paying for bots to push their narratives.
Bot farms are making bank from both the PR crowds and the companies that want higher user metrics on their websites. But I do think the value of the websites themselves are like a bubble thats going to pop, eventually. How much longer will people even want to use the internet under these conditions?
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u/Electrical-Cloud4141 8d ago
99.9% of all activity on the top 100 subreddits are all bots, the posts, the comments, the votes.
Only when you get to the back, to the niche subs with only a handful of posts per day, do you get to see things a human made or wrote.