Comment by mikeocool

I know a fair number of people “normies” who get some value out of smaller niche Reddit communities — for advice, and things like product recommendations.

If suddenly all the posts are coming from bots who are trying push a product or just farm karma, I assume (perhaps naively) that those folks will get a lot less value, and stop showing up — even if they don’t realize it’s bots on the other side of the conversation.