• vxx@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    This was happening since 2015 on a massive scale, in small and big subreddits, getting increasingly worse each year.

    It has been so bad and easy to spot with simple bots, that there’s no other option that reddit’s owners are complicit.

    That’s one of the big reasons I quit besides the 3rd party app they took off me.

  • CMLVI@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    Has been an issue for a while. The sub of ~30k I was a mod in, I was picked up because I was reporting bot posts and posting the OG posts. I was modded by one the other mod (the sub owner was non-existent really) so instead of me being the middle man, I would just respond with the OG post so there was a “trail” and then remove the post.

    I did other little things like discussion threads for the weekly event, but I just hated seeing the bots. It died down after a few months, so they have to be watching the metrics on the subs to know where it’s allowed and where it isn’t.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
    40·
    8 days ago

    That’s been going on for quite some time. Back before the migration i can see some user intentionally combing reddit to find out who is botting and calling them out. Of course, no action taken.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
      61·
      8 days ago

      It’s way worse now though. I don’t know if the bots ramped up or if there’s just more exposure since there’s fewer users but it is so much more obvious now. But yeah, OP should not be surprised to see repost bots. What’s worse is how many comments are now bots too, and not just repost bots of popular comments, buts actual LLM responses.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
        3·
        8 days ago

        Damn, it’s just sad. I guess the smaller sub still better? It’s always the big time waster sub that have this issue back then, while the smaller sub tend to be more organic.

  • SagXD@lemm.eeOP
    26·
    8 days ago

    Also, Someone reposted Stardew Valley in Ghibli art style claiming as OC but It was originally posted in 2021. Reddit is really fucked up.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    141·
    8 days ago

    Reddit as a whole has a huge botting problem. And it isn’t exactly new, although it got worse past ChatGPT.

    • RQG@lemmy.world
      16·
      8 days ago

      The sub is very positive and has a very high uovote rate. My guess is good for karma farming.

    • SagXD@lemm.eeOP
      6·
      8 days ago

      I dunno. Why bots are doing this :(. They are ruining Stardew Valley Sub.

      • DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org
        2·
        2 days ago

        Bot accounts farming karma, since karma actually became a useful currency on Reddit once communities started restricting accounts from posting or commenting that didn’t have scores over a certain threshold. Then those bot accounts with “real” looking karma scores can go spew out commercial and political advertisements anywhere else.

        SDV and other niche subs get hit because even without the bots there all upvoting each other, it was already a happy go lucky upvote party.