Nothing you see on reddit is “organic”!
After the last election Reddit purged via permanent ban most of the humor and open minded convo. You get banned for joining subreddits.
Reddit is a living-dead platform, I always have the feeling that most posts there are made by bots.
I really think that Reddit is completely inflating upvotes on posts. A post can have 50,000 upvotes, but there’s only like three comments that are really big.
Oh yeah, this has been going on for more than a decade. 4 minute old post with 3000 up votes, zero comments.
I mean some of thst was organic, and something pushed for at the begining of that phase. used to be a common refrain, ‘don’t like what you see on the front page, search by new and change that’ I used to spend like 20-30 mins every morning doing just that, sorting all:new and just up/down voting- so when I came back later there was more interesting threads with a comment section to engage in
Changing from the original upvote scheme, where the absolute peak was Obama with like 10 or 12k, to now, where we see upvote in the six figures, was a huge mistake over there, really watered everything down. One of many mistakes along the way.
It do be like that. Last time I was scrolling I’d see the most obvious LLM generated threads and wonder who’d respond to this trash. Well it’s other bots with your occasional oblivious human in-between.
Most top voted/awarded or near top voted comments you see on the larger subs (and even some of the smaller niche subs now) are from bot controlled accounts. Humans that try to alert others that it’s a bot comment often get banned for doing so. Happened to me countless times. It’s really bad in r/politics in particular.
Being real, any vote-centric platform is extremely susceptible to manipulation, including this one.
Any alternative good formats?
Niche discord servers maybe?
Depends on what you need. I remember reading an article about how even email newsletters could pretty easily be derailed using sockpuppets though, so honestly I don’t know.
How much to sell an account with a solid 10+y activity and 500k karma?
Asking for a friend
I’ll give you $4.50 for it.
Care to sweeten the deal?
I’ll throw in two dick pictures and in one of them I’ll put a tiny knitted beanie in it.
How much for just the pic?
Honey if you have to ask you can’t afford it.
How much for just the beanie?
Sure, I’ll only charge $200
You could get over $50 for it I reckon. That kind of account is extremely important for legitimising the manipulation.
They sell accounts for 4 bucks a pop. So apparently almost nothing.
Aw man
You 10 year old account might be a bit more valuable, but you have to understand that making bot accounts that post legitimate looking content nowadays is trivial.
Not to mention the amount of hacked accounts because of credential stuffing attacks.
A hacked Netflix account used to be like $1.
Was it trivial
tenfifteen years ago?But yeah, now that it’s trivial, I may have missed the boat
Oh well
Kinda. You don’t need AI to copy paste whole threads.
I haven’t seen it talked about here but there was a update a while ago to hide your entire Post and Comment history on Reddit.
They might as well do away with user names at a certain point and use a randomised UID every posts since there little to no credibility attach to accounts now.
If you want to see bots on reddit google “best ai chatbot reddit” or “best ai image generator reddit” or some variation, every ai thread is hella bots and fake upvotes and alll of their posts are ads pretending to be comments for the same few services
Huh, maybe I should sell my account.
All to sell OnlyFans subscriptions.
Seriously what’s going on with the lips and fingers here.
It’s like he’s made of the parts of three or four other people
The whole website had to be vibe coded. I can’t even click the buy now button. Plus they’ve only sold 400 accounts? What the heck? And only 50k upvotes? I remember when I saw l upvotes in the 10k normally on the front page.
