Someone made a bot to highlight other bots on Reddit - eviltoast
  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    The bot is 1m old. Just wait until it gets suspended for “multiple, repeated violations of the content policy” (translation: “don’t you dare to shoo the botters! Bot = activity!”).

    • Nougat@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      This account exhibits multiple major traits commonly found in karma farming bots. It is extremely likely that u/Yagirlbella_ is a bot made to farm karma, and it is recommended that you downvote their posts to hinder their success.

      That’s probably the banworthy part, arguably amounts to “brigading.”

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        3 months ago

        At this rate they don’t even need it to be banworthy, they simply ban stuff that counters their interests and call it a day.

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          3 months ago

          Oh sure, I mean, I couldn’t care less what Reddit The Company decides to do with Reddit The Website, or what Reddit The Actual Human Userbase thinks about it. Fuck em all.

          But I can also see that bringing consequences on to a bot that calls for mass downvoting of individual accounts could be justified, with disregard to what platform the bot operates on.