i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

  • CustodialTeapot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bots. Endless bots where you don’t know if the comment or post is a real person. Sign ups need a barrier to filter out bots.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, I’d be happy if most bots were gone. Even the “helpful” ones. 12 years on reddit and I can count on one hand the number of self-identifed novelty bot accounts that didn’t immediately annoy me. Oh, you wrote a bot that identifies when a post is a haiku or when the words in a comment are in alphabetical order? Very clever. No thanks.

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        1 year ago

        I’ll admit, the uwubot hit good sometimes, its hilarity depended mostly on the context and style of the post it was used on, so it had… some variety.

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          1 year ago

          You can but only if the bot account has actually been set as a bot account in its account settings page. Naturally, malicious actors aren’t going to out their own bot accounts by setting them as bot accounts if they’re looking to do something like astroturf or manipulate opinions through voting.