I went thru the profiles of 10 different users whose comments were on top of the most popular subreddits and none of them seemed like bot profiles. I’m quite confident in my original statement.
One of the most insideous and common bot karma farming techniques is to “replay” a historical post.
They’ll look at a post and comments from like 8 years ago, and have one account make the post, and then have other bots copy the original top comments. Then have another set of bots post the original responses to those comments.
As a result, none of the bots look like bots… Because they’re actually more accurately “ghosts” of other real human users.
So when people are talking about bots, it’s not just LLMs. It’s also accounts which “fill out” the space, but which are actually just airing re-runs.
The only thing I really miss about Reddit is subredditsimulator. At least then, you know for a fact that it’s all bots, and is to be consulted sheerly for entertainment value.
So you did a reverse search of their comments? Because they take actual comments from real people the first time a post is created, and then they post that persons comment any time that post is created again. They wont seem like bots because theyre directly quoting actual conversations that real people had about a decade ago.
I went thru the profiles of 10 different users whose comments were on top of the most popular subreddits and none of them seemed like bot profiles. I’m quite confident in my original statement.
One of the most insideous and common bot karma farming techniques is to “replay” a historical post.
They’ll look at a post and comments from like 8 years ago, and have one account make the post, and then have other bots copy the original top comments. Then have another set of bots post the original responses to those comments.
As a result, none of the bots look like bots… Because they’re actually more accurately “ghosts” of other real human users.
So when people are talking about bots, it’s not just LLMs. It’s also accounts which “fill out” the space, but which are actually just airing re-runs.
The only thing I really miss about Reddit is subredditsimulator. At least then, you know for a fact that it’s all bots, and is to be consulted sheerly for entertainment value.
So you did a reverse search of their comments? Because they take actual comments from real people the first time a post is created, and then they post that persons comment any time that post is created again. They wont seem like bots because theyre directly quoting actual conversations that real people had about a decade ago.