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minus-squareDoug HollandlinkEnglish76•2 years agoMy guesstimate is that Reddit — with BotDefense up and running — was at least 20% bots posting articles and then bots having conversations about those bot-posted articles. Without BotDefense? Yikes.
minus-squareTeoTwawkilinkEnglish77•edit-22 years agoMan the bots aren’t even good at hiding they are bots anymore. That was just spammed in a news article over and over for hours.
My guesstimate is that Reddit — with BotDefense up and running — was at least 20% bots posting articles and then bots having conversations about those bot-posted articles. Without BotDefense? Yikes.
Man the bots aren’t even good at hiding they are bots anymore.
That was just spammed in a news article over and over for hours.