I’ve seen at least 2 post today where a front page post has many normal looking comments, but their username was [deleted] Doesn’t seem normal, any theories on whats going on?
Is my browser bugged?
Typically means they deleted their account or are banned right?
Yea, that typically doesn’t happen to entire comment sections.
Seems like reddit being reddit again, website glitches and all.
That’s why Lemmy is still my favorite platform.
I’ve found that on every Reddit post I saw this evening ( I was looking for some advice ). Nested comments loaded with “load more” seem fine, and hovering over “deleted” seems to bring up the user if they weren’t actually deleted so I assume it’s just some weird glitch or maybe related to something Reddit is trying to implement?
Yeah idk. I totally noticed this a lot the past two years. I thought mods were just being jerks as usual
Entire comment sections are just bots, for the most part, if reddit is actually identifying bots and non humans then it would be normal to see wasteland threads.
The Internet is in a sad state.
Weird thing is like I browsed 5 threads and its all just [deleted], seemed like a site-wide system crash lol
I think reddit might actually powered by a hamster running on a wheel, and the hamster is just dead from exhaustion.
That’s not really how that works…
Deleted comments show is deleted because they were deleted
User names say: [Deleted]
But contents of the comments were still there…
anyways, it was just a glitch at the time, the problem no longer exists, reddit has always been buggy
Yea, that typically doesn’t happen to entire comment sections.
It does when the topic of discussion has hella users breaking the rules or saying shit a mod doesn’t like.
Bots will sometimes recycle old comments, so even if they’re normal sounding they might not be authentic. And with LLMs now you might not be able to tell the difference. Could be Reddit being bullshit or could be them correctly identifying inauthentic behavior with some behind the scenes searching and metrics.
similar things happening for me as well, Android, Firefox beta.
I noticed this too, happens if you are not using old.reddit.com and are not logged in.
