Here's another bot doing the same thing. There are probably hundreds of thousands of these bots if not millions. How do I know? I learned to make some bots back in high school for fun like replying to any comments that had "Hello There" with "General Kenobi". A bot that steals people's identities isn't so fun.
SubredditSimulators using these bots were cool/funny to watch (like a bunch of ChatBots trying to hold a conversation), but having them out in the wild pretending to be us is really depressing. I don't want to have a conversation with a bot.
Every now and then I check to see if the user I'm replying to is real or not. Lately, 68% of the time I'm not talking to a human. That's an alarming high number.
What are their purpose? Karma-farming. Most of the bots I encountered are listed on reddit accounts for sale sites (yeah, that's a thing). Most buyers purchase these high-karma accounts for astroturfing by advertising products or pushing agendas.
Anyways, I just wanted more people to know because what's the point in talking to yourself, or worse, to ones and zeros?
Orion2350 on May 6th, 2021 at 05:57 UTC »
Looks like an RTX off/on meme
CrazyGiaky on May 6th, 2021 at 06:23 UTC »
~Credits~
edit: Since this post blew up, I want to bring up a concern relating to OP. First, they're not real, or at least their interactions aren't.
Every posts and comments are stolen by real users word by word to the punctuation and grammatical errors.
Here's another bot doing the same thing. There are probably hundreds of thousands of these bots if not millions. How do I know? I learned to make some bots back in high school for fun like replying to any comments that had "Hello There" with "General Kenobi". A bot that steals people's identities isn't so fun.
SubredditSimulators using these bots were cool/funny to watch (like a bunch of ChatBots trying to hold a conversation), but having them out in the wild pretending to be us is really depressing. I don't want to have a conversation with a bot.
Every now and then I check to see if the user I'm replying to is real or not. Lately, 68% of the time I'm not talking to a human. That's an alarming high number.
What are their purpose? Karma-farming. Most of the bots I encountered are listed on reddit accounts for sale sites (yeah, that's a thing). Most buyers purchase these high-karma accounts for astroturfing by advertising products or pushing agendas.
Anyways, I just wanted more people to know because what's the point in talking to yourself, or worse, to ones and zeros?
DragonDon1 on May 6th, 2021 at 08:12 UTC »
Lilac and gooseberries... Yen’s been here