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Comment by hn8726

3 days ago

I'd be surprised if Reddit wasn't selling tools specifically aimed at seting up and managing operations like that

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ACCount37  3 days ago

I would be surprised if Reddit was selling tools like that directly. Rather than just look the other way - because uncovering modern bot operations is a thankless threadmill, and user engagement metrics from fake users are still user engagement metrics.

  • justcool393  3 days ago

    to be fair, i once accidentally ended up on shreddit or new reddit or whatever they call it nowadays and i think there's something for managing your posts on reddit and seeing analytics about that or whatever

    > uncovering modern bot operations

    this significantly overestimates how sophisticated the spam waves are compared to like ability. the 80% of spam filtering basically never was really done as far as i can tell.

    > a thankless threadmill, and user engagement metrics from fake users are still user engagement metrics.

    that's probably it tho