Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

• Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  https://i.imgur.com/rdR0oRZ.png

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  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They aren’t even trying with those usernames, lazy.

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • HarkMahlberg@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, looks like the default “word_wordnumbers” usernames that reddit gives you if don’t change them.

        This change is when I knew Reddit was going down the shitter. Automatically handing out default usernames instead of requiring you to pick your own. The only people that could possibly help are a) people with absolutely no imagination whatsoever, b) bots, and c) people making a dozen alts to puff up their main.

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, looks like the default “word_wordnumbers” usernames that reddit gives you if don’t change them.

        Funny enough, this started happening on YouTube (comments) as well, around the same time.

        The issue with sites starting to use numbering as part of the default username only started happening after AI posting became a thing, because an Achilles heel is the fact that AI can’t come up with enough believable unique names for all the posts you want your AI bots to make.

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      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Had no idea they were generating names, joke of a site.

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  • te_abstract_art@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t believe 8 people had the exact same idea for a post at the same time, that’s crazy

    /s

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• EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, if you’re going to defraud investors by pumping up your numbers before your IPO, you might as well go all out.

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• Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is that recent? I haven’t used Reddit since a few months and that phenomena was previously only on promoted posts (read, ads)

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  • MacFearrs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it was there for a while, it’s just gone full mask off mode and become particularly noticeable now

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  • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    like 2 months ago

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• Lemonparty@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • numberfour002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Lemonparty@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Go back to Reddit astroturfer.

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