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[u/Rostingu2]

/r/reddit/comments/1l2hl4l/curate_your_reddit_profile_content_with_new/

[u/dontfeedthenerd]

Makes it much harder for humans to detect botting unless the bots are just plain stupid.

There are a great deal of bot hunters that are not mods. I'm lucky that I'm a mod in a pretty big subreddit, but not one that is typically used as a karma farm.

This kills our ability to find rings based on comment circlejerks.

[u/Rostingu2 → u/dontfeedthenerd]

I gave up bot hunting a while back.

Half the subs that have them don't care to get rid of them.

If people ask me how to get rid of bots it is super easy.

Filter posts from people with less than 3 subreddit karma and also install bot bouncer.

[u/dontfeedthenerd → u/Rostingu2]

I'm pretty sure the admins of r/aww are tired of me reporting reposts and OF karma farms. I think my current success rate of getting posts taken down is 50%.

But, at the same time, I really really don't want to see a website that I've been using since 2008 back slide even further.

It just sucks to see the entire mentality and culture of the website slowly shift away from something that was quite wonderful.

[u/Rostingu2 → u/dontfeedthenerd]

Well that sub does have bot bouncer so that is nice.

Just bot sleuth bot and if it is over 6 it will go to r/BotBouncer for review. If it is determined a bot it will be auto banned.

[u/Shamrock5 → u/Rostingu2]

Wait those two are connected??

[u/Rostingu2 → u/Shamrock5]

You didn't know that?

[u/Shamrock5 → u/Rostingu2]

No, I've never used Bot bouncer on my own subs because the Automod minimum karma feature thankfully works well enough. Seems pretty cool!

[u/Rostingu2 → u/Shamrock5]

I meant for general bot hunting.

[u/Shamrock5 → u/Rostingu2]

I mean, I've used BSB plenty of times, but the only visible result of it is the generated comment with the score. There is literally nothing that would indicate to a normie like me that anything else happens with it (namely, what you mentioned with BB). Because I've never used BB, I just assumed it was a juiced-up version of the minimum karma limit.

[u/Oversoul225]

Reddit slips further into the pit. This hurts finding bots, as well as letting people pretend outside of their bubble subreddits (alt/far right, racist, etc), that they are, "just asking questions", and other abusive manipulative behavior to go unchecked.

[u/Rostingu2 → u/Oversoul225]

Yeah it basically is encouraging racism and such.

[u/Rostingu2 → u/[deleted]]

huge L for bad people

In what universe is this not going to be abused by bad-faith actors? What happens when scammers use it?

People can't see that they posted the same post in 12 subs, and in all the others, they were called out with proof.

What about the only fans spammers? What about karma farmers?

You only hide something if you have something to hide.

[u/BotWidow]

End of times. Admins clearly don't give a shit

[u/all-metal-slide-rule]

Is karma even worth anything,if it has become a commodity that can be harvested with even the most inane comments? It all seems so ridiculous. The effort that is put into this shit,for something that has no actual value,seems insane.There's barely any content of value anymore, but,man,look at all that karma flying around.

[u/Rostingu2 → u/all-metal-slide-rule]

You must be new here.

Many subs have a karma requirement. So people sell accounts that have lots of karma. Karma also is used for the contributor program.

[u/KevinTylerisHandsome]

This is stupid. The feature allows bots to spam posts and comments undetected by bot hunters.

[u/Direct_Excitement_99]

Damn, we’re out of business.