So I’d say the posting frequency here on Lemmy is pretty good then!
Hahahah! *«strAdditional_CommentDFF4»*
It’s odd how often I <java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException> myself as well.
Sure, I have an image like that:  as well that just responded “cat.” Never considered the conspiratorial angle there…
If I cared about reddit anymore, I’d dig into that
I mean I can think of worse ways to send messages to my sleeper cells across the surface web. I used to watch The Modern Rogue.
Do you mind share tips to know how to spot them?
It:
The stock photo sites are watermarking AI-generated images now?
That’s their txt2img thank you very much
This right here is a bot comment. Everyone take notes.
How do you track down the sheer number of them so efficiently? You could obviously dig through each one’s profile, but that wouldn’t work for hundreds or thousands.
Lol. There is no way to do it efficiently. I did it in the way you described every time, and I reported literal thousands to reddit’s admins (and never got a single response) and was banned by multiple subreddits because I was “annoying” when I reported bots to sub mods. I also called bots out in comments and provided evidence when I did. Nobody cared.
When reddit killed 3rd party apps, I rolled out. I didn’t realize how bad reddit had become and how much I hated the site. I’m much happier here with less content and without a bot infestation. Additionally, I’m sure users, mods, and admins WOULD care if I reported that sort of thing on Lemmy
Oh man, I used to see you around constantly. I believe you posted about your methods at one point and I started following them. Hunted down quite a few bots as well!
For the subs I modded, my main strategy was to just ban any NameName or NameName## accounts that could post, and remove any comments from them that were super short or contained a link. That cut down on a ton of those assholes.
I actually got to talk in person with one of the admins at Reddit in charge of spam prevention. I basically gave the bastard a lecture in all the ways the spammers were spamming and scamming. Got told they’d follow up with me soon for more. Never got that follow up and I gave up caring once the API changes went through. I actually deleted all my anti bot code from the subs, but they’re still all private anyways
Okay what was kittengifs, because I’m ashamed to admit my first thought was not short videos of baby cats.
It was baby cats
Okay good
I wonder if they didn’t block the bot that approves content…
Haha, moderator approval on Reddit.
Boggles the mind how they work for free for a business.
Someone should start a reddit replacement and we should all move there last year
That would be something, wouldn’t it?
We can dream.
!remindme -1 year
As a former mod, in my experience it was more having a place to engage a community, and helping that community grow and improve. Reddit being a million dollar company when I started and a billion dollar company when I left didn’t really factor in. If you have a site split up into a million little communities, you need moderators that can have intimate knowledge of each community they oversee, and that’s unreasonable for a company of any size to do in house. Otherwise you have Facebook style moderation where it’s just plain dreadful no matter where you are.
Additionally, it really matters what sized sub you modded.
I modded mostly smaller subs, one big one for a while, and a default for 2 weeks. I put a lot of effort into the smaller subs, especially when it was just a few people whose usernames I recognized posting. I had little jokes hidden around, some cool CSS stuff, and some automated tasks. It was an enjoyable way to spend a couple hours a week. I didn’t mind it.
The big sub I was on mostly through mutuals. I was known to be pretty decent with automod scripting, so I got brought in to deal with never ending spam. I would update the automod and check queue every couple days, no biggie. Then the rest of the mods all drifted offline, leaving me alone to either let the sun die or to try and maintain the damned thing.
I maintained it near single handedly for like 2 years. It was mostly adding more and more to automod, but a lot was manual approvals and deletions. It sucked and sapped all the fun out of an activity I used to enjoy. Wasn’t the worst, but I wouldn’t have joined in the first place had I known why would happen.
Default subs are a different beast entirely. They don’t even use automod half the time. All of them have custom bots that link either a slack or discord, and everything is run externally through there. I decided to dip when I asked how tf all their tools worked and got refered to almost a damn knowledge base. That truly seemed awful and like it needed to be done by dedicated and paid employees.
Anyways, this comment spiraled, so sorry about that.
Poor little vasals on poor little anthills.
I am not a bot
That is what a bot would say
I am a bot, and this action was peformed automatically.
Was anybody under the impression that it wasn’t just account harvesting? It’s been that way for years. All of the default subs have been that way for a long time. The biggest clue is when you see the same post on multiple different subs at the same time. Just have your bot swarm upvote posts so that they take off under hot and you’re good.
So I know my wife still uses Reddit, if the dead internet theory is to be believed either she’s a bot or I’m a bot…
Can someone help me click this box?
Why are you still using reddit
Many niche subreddits, my country specific subreddit. I browse reddit along with lemmy but post only on lemmy.
This is the way
Yeah, although I find that even some if the subreddits for shows that are not discussed on reddit are pure trash, The Boys comes to mind since they got really explicit and conservatives realized the show is making fun of them, the discussions around episodes are just trash
Because such was the style at the time.
But now we Lemmy!
That’s kinda astonishing. I mean, I knew there were a lot of bots, but that many? That’s crazy. How did they filter for bots?
I think it was OC only not “no bots”
No wholesome humans left. Bots are nicer confirmed.
I for one welcome our new wholesome bot overlords!
“A few year away”
Lol, have you tried searching for a “how to” article in the past five years?
… I am somehow completely missing two days worth of memories, completely blank.
I hope it’s not related.I misread that as Lemmy community for the same. Hopefully we are still got a lot of time before it hits us.
When did this happen?
Amazing. I almost want to tell them to come over here but then I’d have to use reddit.
Are bean memes wholesome?
Only if they’re whole beans. Split beans don’t count.
Only if they’re wearing jeans, otherwise they’re nsfw.
I had blocked that subreddit after few posts from there popped up in /r/all.
It was a hugbox of toxic positivity.
