Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 months agoReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months lateri.imgur.comimagemessage-square192fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1116arrow-down1imageReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months lateri.imgur.comBlaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 months agomessage-square192fedilinkfile-text
For the threads with the older one on the left: https://lemmy.world/post/14859950 (Thank you @Nelots@lemm.ee )
minus-squarecriitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoIt’s probably not as easy as you imagine for reddit to identify and cleanse all bot content.
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoOf course it’s not. Nor do they want to. I think the person you’re talking to thinks all bots are like the easy ones in this screenshot.
minus-squarebjorney@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoLook at the picture above - this is trivially easy. We are talking about identifying repost bots, not seeing if users pass/fail the Turing test If 99% of a user’s posts can be found elsewhere, word for word, with the same parent comment, you are looking at a repost bot
It’s probably not as easy as you imagine for reddit to identify and cleanse all bot content.
Of course it’s not. Nor do they want to.
I think the person you’re talking to thinks all bots are like the easy ones in this screenshot.
Look at the picture above - this is trivially easy. We are talking about identifying repost bots, not seeing if users pass/fail the Turing test
If 99% of a user’s posts can be found elsewhere, word for word, with the same parent comment, you are looking at a repost bot