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.

  • @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