Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 months agoReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months lateri.imgur.comimagemessage-square309fedilinkarrow-up11.46Karrow-down116file-text
arrow-up11.44Karrow-down1imageReddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months lateri.imgur.comBlaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 months agomessage-square309fedilinkfile-text
For the threads with the older one on the left: https://lemmy.world/post/14859950 (Thank you @Nelots@lemm.ee )
minus-squarebjorney@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-27 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-up5·7 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.