• @IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee
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      It sounds like you are having trouble accepting that reddit is purely a human user driven, anonymous, and beneficial social media company. I can help you with this issue. Try subscribing to new subreddits. Reddit has thousands of niche communities that cater to anything from cooking, to animated dragons having sex with motor vehicles, to racism, or even knitting! Users are encouraged to post and comment based on a point based system, and moderators of each subreddit work diligently to not only uphold the quality of content, but to tirelessly clear all bot posts as well as any extraneous and subverting advertising. These methods of organization and attention to detail create cooperative and helpful communities that strengthen society. If you haven't tried using reddit before, download the Reddit app today and you're sure to make friends and see cool stuff!

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    • nicman24
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      no please dont especially if you frequent technical subs

    • yeehaw
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      I heard they’ve been just restoring comments… or reverting them if you use something like shreddit.

    • DreamySweet
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      110 months ago

      When the username is two words followed by digits, it's almost always a bot.

      • Chozo
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        110 months ago

        Or somebody who picked the random username when signing up.

        • DreamySweet
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          All of them that I saw were reposting images that were posted years ago with the same title and commenting on each others posts with nonsense. Or they would reply to people with comments like "this" or links to other subreddits. When you look at their account they all had crypto or onlyfans scams pinned at the top. Some may be made of flesh instead of code but they are all bots.

        • Paradox
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          110 months ago

          Either way it's a no effort account and you can basically ignore them, as their contributions will most likely be garbage either way

          • DreamySweet
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            110 months ago

            Yes. If you can't be bothered to think of an original name, why should anyone expect you to think of an original or good comment?

    • @inasaba@lemmy.ml
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      I've dealt with this particular bot problem as a mod. Noticing the pattern early on was easy because they always had posts on TEMU subreddits. Now that those subs are banned, it's harder.

      1. Comment length. Their comments are always less than two lines long.

      2. Tone. They always contain at least one exclamation point, and tend to have a tone that I'd say is "cheery to the point it's offputting."

      3. Context. Reading them, a lot of the time you'll ask "did they even read what they're replying to?" The comment seems related, but directly misses the main point.

      4. History. Look at the rest of their comments. If more than one ends in two emojis, they're definitely part of this particular bot network.

      • I Cast Fist
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        010 months ago

        Is there a way to prevent them from flooding the fediverse, or will that fall onto the shoulders of mods to find and delete them?

        • Da Bald Eagul
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          110 months ago

          They can defederate from hexbear. But that's up to each instance individually.

  • @FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world
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    I was often accused of being a bot on Reddit. Not sure really why. Though to be fair, the majority of my interactions on Reddit were arguing with people that thought they knew more than I did about a field I’ve worked in for 20+ years.

    • @2nsfw2furious@lemmynsfw.com
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      To be fair to the other side, it’s entirely possible (and even common) to have worked in a field for 20 years while learning completely incorrect things about it. Or learning nothing.

      People say things like “I’ve used a computer every day for 20 years, I think I know how it works” and then ask if they should “reboot the hard drive” and then they power cycle the monitor.

      • @turmacar@lemmy.world
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        You can also form very strong opinions early in your career and not know when they’re now invalid due to changes in tech/industry.

        Was getting a quote for a new heat pump and had the guy tell me they were worthless if it got too cold. There have been consumer heat pumps that work down to -15°C with very little efficiency loss for well over a decade at this point. He had just been used to them not being worth it for long enough that he “didn’t believe it”.

    • @aceshigh@lemmy.world
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      010 months ago

      are you neurodivergent or is english a foreign language? for some reason those folks tend to get labeled as bots.

      • @FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world
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        Does it SEEM like I’m neurodivergent (wtf is that anyway, why does everything need a fancy label?), or that English is a second language?

        • Astro
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          Neurodivergent means anyone with a medical condition that could be seen as brain pathways either being disrupted, or gone, or rerouted. A few examples would be AD(H)D, Autism Spectrum Disorder (Including things such as Asperger’s), and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

          Edit: Changed Autism to ASD, and switched out Schizophrenia to OCD as it’s more apt for the term as a whole.

            • @Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee
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              Having proper diagnoses for people help them get care and treatment. It’s better than calling them all “stupid” and ignoring their struggles, which has been the case for decades.

              Most of these “fancy new labels” you’re hearing lately are just recognizing people, so they can be included in society and treated with dignity.

              • @FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world
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                According to the prior explanation, they already had labels. ADHD, Autism, etc. But now it’s all lumped into “Neurodiverse” or whatever. Sounds like someone trying to impersonalize others. “oh just lump them all together”.

                • Elevator7009
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                  A good amount of the conditions lumped together as “neurodiverse” are either comorbid or share some traits. It’s reasonable people with these separate conditions may still want to connect with each other because of the commonalities between them. Nobody’s forgoing the words “ADHD”, “autism”, or “OCD” for the more generic “neurodiverse”, they only use “neurodiverse” in place of “people who have ADHD, autism, OCD, or [insert other conditions here]”.

            • Astro
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              In this case, it’s mainly a catch-all for folks to easily find help and or others with their conditions.