Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
arstechnica.com
Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.

Title says it all. If you think Reddit’s been trending down lately, just wait.

  • RhoeriEnglish
    521·
    2 years ago

    As if Reddit isn’t already a shit show now… just wait. It’ll be overrun with bots.

    • dhorkEnglish
      29·
      2 years ago

      Maybe that’s the plan, charge the bots to talk to each other

      • everythingsucksEnglish
        19·
        2 years ago

        Close.

        1. Make people have to sign up to use Reddit
        2. Have bots do the work of people by reposting old top posts
        3. ???
        4. Profit
        • lololaEnglish
          15·
          2 years ago

          It’ll be like watching a bunch of CPU players fight each other in Smash Bros. That’s entertaining, right?

      • KoraEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        In otherwords they’re speedrunning the capitalism fueled ai takeover