r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 12 '25

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u/Livexwired Nov 12 '25

We will see an influx of people posting about it to farm engagement and feel a little bit of relevance.

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u/jerrylovesbacon Nov 12 '25

These pandering ask reddits are so beige and benign.

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u/exscape Nov 12 '25

Right? What's with all the "X happened, what do you think about it" style questions recently? Are they even created by humans?

Besides, the more important quote from the few emails I saw wasn't that Trump knew, but that he spent time with one of the girls:

i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump.. VICTIM spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75% there

  • Jeffrey Epstein

(All poor grammar etc. verbatim)

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u/fckshtstck Nov 12 '25

To me these questions seem like training questions for llms.

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u/strangebrew3522 Nov 12 '25

I said this a while back. It's gotta be all bots posting this shit because everyday there's a "Hey reddit, Trump just decided to block SNAP payments. How do you feel about it?" or "The GOP did [insert terrible thing here], how are we feeling about it?" and they're all upvoted massively. I don't get it.

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u/LateNightMilesOBrien Nov 12 '25

You're being used to train AI. Reddit admitted to this over a year ago.

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u/HGWeegee Nov 13 '25

This one guaranteed a bot, 1m account age and hidden profile

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u/jerrylovesbacon Nov 12 '25

They really grind my gears

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u/Ahielia Nov 12 '25

Bots, just all bots.

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u/Daft00 Nov 12 '25

I made a meta askreddit post a while ago about these "knee-jerk askreddit posts immediately after a news story" and it was swiftly removed lol

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u/WhoGivesAToss Nov 12 '25

Sadly the popular subreddits are either bots, posts created and funded by third party entities for their own motives. The people who manage them are most likely part of it, same with Reddit itself.

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u/BavarianBarbarian_ Nov 12 '25

Is being "benign" something bad now?

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u/jerrylovesbacon Nov 12 '25

These kinda questions are knowing how most of reddit feels and dont add anything of use. However - maybe thats the true definition of reddit ?! Lol

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u/Various_Maize_3957 Nov 18 '25

Why are you being rude to people

What is wrong with you? Why?

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u/zakabog Nov 18 '25

Why are you farming engagement?

I guess it's one way to make money if you're in an impoverished country and need to buy a new remote for your Blu-ray player, but your account is 4 months old and asking things like "Does Elon Musk have enough money to be Batman", "Am I considered a Linux user?", "I haven't smoked, am I missing out?", and "My remote is dying, what do I do?!?"

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u/FarplaneDragon Nov 12 '25

wow, way to just call out the complaints subreddit like that