HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoReddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Redditarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square57linkfedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down19cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldreddit@lemdro.idtechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@chat.maiion.comsnoocalypse@lemmy.ml
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkReddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Redditarstechnica.comHLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square57linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldreddit@lemdro.idtechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@chat.maiion.comsnoocalypse@lemmy.ml
minus-squareDoug Holland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·3 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-squareTeoTwawki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 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.