• criitz@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    It’s probably not as easy as you imagine for reddit to identify and cleanse all bot content.

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      6 months ago

      Of course it’s not. Nor do they want to.

      I think the person you’re talking to thinks all bots are like the easy ones in this screenshot.

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      6 months ago

      Look at the picture above - this is trivially easy. We are talking about identifying repost bots, not seeing if users pass/fail the Turing test

      If 99% of a user’s posts can be found elsewhere, word for word, with the same parent comment, you are looking at a repost bot

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        6 months ago

        That’s easy in an isolated case like this, but the reality of the entire reddit comment base is much more complex.