@Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-22 months agoReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months lateri.imgur.comimagemessage-square310fedilinkarrow-up11.45Karrow-down116file-text
arrow-up11.43Karrow-down1imageReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months lateri.imgur.com@Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-22 months agomessage-square310fedilinkfile-text
For the threads with the older one on the left: https://lemmy.world/post/14859950 (Thank you @Nelots@lemm.ee )
minus-squarebjorneylinkfedilink-3•edit-22 months agoLook at the picture above - this is trivially easy. We are talking about identifying repost bots, not seeing if users pass/fail the Turing test If 99% of a user’s posts can be found elsewhere, word for word, with the same parent comment, you are looking at a repost bot
minus-square@criitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilink5•2 months agoThat’s easy in an isolated case like this, but the reality of the entire reddit comment base is much more complex.
Look at the picture above - this is trivially easy. We are talking about identifying repost bots, not seeing if users pass/fail the Turing test
If 99% of a user’s posts can be found elsewhere, word for word, with the same parent comment, you are looking at a repost bot
That’s easy in an isolated case like this, but the reality of the entire reddit comment base is much more complex.