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”?
i sometimes get comments to sometimes even 6+ years old comments. it’s rare but happens and i always wonder how someone found my comment after this time.
Someone else commented the likely answer - the way reddit cuts off comments and suggests random “related” posts regardless of age. Then, of course, are the bots
i 99% of the time use old reddit so dunno about that. but usually if i get replys to old comments its actual users and not bots. sometimes i replied to them and asked and they said they found it random by looking through reddit and google as an example.