I don’t browse reddit anymore but when searching for solutions to various problems, many times I end up on a reddit thread with the answers. I haven’t posted or commented since the exodus but I almost always have a red notification icon. And every time curiosity gets the better of me and I click it, it’s a reply to a comment I left years ago.
I usually mark it as read and ignore it but last night curiosity got the better of me and I looked at the user’s profile…lots of comments, all on ancient posts.
If they’re bots, I’m actually kind of impressed. They’d be good and relevant comments if they were posted when the thread was active. I searched for some of the unique replies and the only result was the comment in question so it’s not just copying replies. I just checked again while posting this and have a new reply - a question about a game tip I posted.
So is it someone farming 1 comment at a time or a sophisticated LLM? I’m leaning the latter but like I said… it’s an impressive one. If I didn’t know that reddit was full of bots, I wouldn’t have even questioned it.
Anyone else have the same “issue”?
Either they’re browsing reddit through a third party service that puts posts based on relevance without counting age, like scrollr. Or they are falling upon posts in google search results.
Huh, I never knew such a service existed. That would make some sense!
Nah, Reddit’s mobile webpage now cuts off comments past the first comment and replaces it with “threads like this” now with most of said threads being years old now
Example:
thats another option too!