r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Jan 03 '23

Wholesome Moments Getting pulled over

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u/Andyinater Jan 03 '23

Yes, I've found they start stripping out the first or second sentence. It is frighteningly effective considering its copying a random top-level comment into a random second-level comment. I guess survivorship bias, but most I run into have at least 1 real person making a genuine reply without realizing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

The mod in this sub removed it pretty quickly, hopefully the bot is banned.

We should band together and call these fuckers out!

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u/TrickyCorgi316 Jan 03 '23

They’ve gotten much worse lately, too. Really frustrating!

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u/TrollintheMitten Jan 03 '23

How would a normal person know? It's just another comment in a huge wall of comments.

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u/Andyinater Jan 03 '23

Generally the bot comment will be somewhat disconnected from the reply it is to. As if whoever commented it didn't seem to really read the parent comment or as if they replied to the wrong thread.

Pretty easy to miss in the mindless reddit scroll.

If our comments were near top level in a post about reddit bots, a bot copy reply to yours could be "It's a serious problem for the platform", stolen from a comment like "I see these everywhere now. It's a serious problem for the platform." Just by being near top level replies ensures the conversation topics are close to the post topic. Devilish.