Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months laterfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square238fedilinkarrow-up1601arrow-down16
arrow-up1595arrow-down1imageReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months laterfiles.catbox.moeBlaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square238fedilink
minus-squarebjorney@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoLook at the picture above - this is trivially easy. We are talking about identifying repost bots, not seeing if users pass/fail the Turing test If 99% of a user’s posts can be found elsewhere, word for word, with the same parent comment, you are looking at a repost bot
minus-squarecriitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s easy in an isolated case like this, but the reality of the entire reddit comment base is much more complex.
Look at the picture above - this is trivially easy. We are talking about identifying repost bots, not seeing if users pass/fail the Turing test
If 99% of a user’s posts can be found elsewhere, word for word, with the same parent comment, you are looking at a repost bot
That’s easy in an isolated case like this, but the reality of the entire reddit comment base is much more complex.