Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months lateri.imgur.comimagemessage-square310fedilinkarrow-up11.45Kfile-text
arrow-up11.45KimageReddit 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-22 months agomessage-square310fedilinkfile-text
For the threads with the older one on the left: https://lemmy.world/post/14859950 (Thank you @Nelots@lemm.ee )
minus-squarecriitzlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months agoIt’s probably not as easy as you imagine for reddit to identify and cleanse all bot content.
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 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-up1·edit-22 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
minus-squarecriitzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoThat’s easy in an isolated case like this, but the reality of the entire reddit comment base is much more complex.
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
That’s easy in an isolated case like this, but the reality of the entire reddit comment base is much more complex.