Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months laterfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square296fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: quitterreddit@jlai.lu
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months laterfiles.catbox.moeBlaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square296fedilinkcross-posted to: quitterreddit@jlai.lu
minus-squarecriitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoIt’s probably not as easy as you imagine for reddit to identify and cleanse all bot content.
minus-squarebjorney@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agoLook 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
minus-squarecriitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoThat’s easy in an isolated case like this, but the reality of the entire reddit comment base is much more complex.
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoOf 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.
It’s probably not as easy as you imagine for reddit to identify and cleanse all bot content.
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
That’s easy in an isolated case like this, but the reality of the entire reddit comment base is much more complex.
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.