Like people always say reddit is filled with bots, but I looked through the users of the top posts and didn’t find evidence that they are bots.
Like how do you know who is a bot? Is there things to look out for?
Edit: And I’d appreciate it if there are real examples of bots getting caught and the evidence of them being bots.
Why do people bother with bots? People often say “to farm karma.” But Karma is literally worthless.
Edit: ah yes, downvote the guy asking a question. Who are you miserable people?
I have seen scam posts
They seem more credible if its by an account with a lot of karma(meaning that they made good comments/posts)
They also downvote any comment talking about the fact that its a scam
Look at the any post about Israel or trans.
The number of likes is completely out of proportion to anything else. A top political post might get 1.2k likes, a question maybe 4k, an Israel bot will get 23k, all short replies or replies repeating the original post in that section.
A trans post would get 22k likes, and literally the day after the election they vanished, they now get well under 500.
With a high like count, it gets pushed up into popular and it makes their view look more popular than is actually is.
BTW, almost all the bots on reddit are produced by the moderators of that subreddit.
Advertising/shilling You have one account ask “what is the best app for identifying hats?” Then you have multiple accounts say, “definitely hattastic” and “I’ve been using hattastic a lot lately!”
It’s because people search Google for “best hat identifier Reddit”