• orangeboats@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’ve noticed that many Reddit users with the username format Word_Word_Number (for example Absolute_Bot_1230) are almost guaranteed to either be a bot or extremely inflammatory – it’s like everything they post is meant to generate controversies.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah reddit has a name generator that you can choose from when you create an account and that’s the format it uses. Those names are almost exclusively bots and throwaway/anon accounts

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      6 months ago

      Well yeah they even have bot in their username.

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      It’s Reddit’s automatic username generation, so either yeah, bots, or someone logging in through Google/Facebook and having a username assigned to them.

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      I don’t get it. They already created a good bot network, but the username part is where they get lazy.