Prking@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I popped over to Reddit for the first time since third party apps were cruelly shut down. It’s clear that Reddit has sunk to new lows. Obviously trolling and a marked decrease in the quality of content
Prking@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I popped over to Reddit for the first time since third party apps were cruelly shut down. It’s clear that Reddit has sunk to new lows. Obviously trolling and a marked decrease in the quality of content
Dagnet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
what I noticed is that posts have huge amounts of upvotes, even from small communities, and often no comments or when it does have comments its often very basic stuff, almost AI like
Hyperreality@kbin.social 10 months ago
https://i.imgur.com/rdR0oRZ.png
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They aren’t even trying with those usernames, lazy.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 10 months ago
Yeah, looks like the default “word_wordnumbers” usernames that reddit gives you if don’t change them.
I wonder if that would be an easy way to detect botting by not filling in that field for them.
te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can’t believe 8 people had the exact same idea for a post at the same time, that’s crazy
/s
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, if you’re going to defraud investors by pumping up your numbers before your IPO, you might as well go all out.
Sheeple@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is that recent? I haven’t used Reddit since a few months and that phenomena was previously only on promoted posts (read, ads)
MacFearrs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I think it was there for a while, it’s just gone full mask off mode and become particularly noticeable now
Dagnet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
like 2 months ago
Lemonparty@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You know what else is random and probably related to their paid content? Their sorting doesn’t work right anymore. Posts in “hot” are regularly like more than a day old but then also some are brand new like minutes old. But if you sort by top 24 hours…same posts. Sometimes the order is different but easily 75% of the posts are the same. A 24 hour old post with no new comments is “hot”? A one hour old post with 20 comments is in the top posts of the past day?..OKAY
numberfour002@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It could be incompetence. Lemmy.world has similar and significant issues with sorting as well and I presume you’re not also implying that paid content has anything to do with lemmy sorting.
Lemonparty@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Go back to Reddit astroturfer.