Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
arstechnica.comMod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.
Title says it all. If you think Reddit’s been trending down lately, just wait.
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Reddit will probably appreciate the extra traffic bots will create
I fear your right, seems the kind of scummy I’ma god-complex type thing spez would do
Until that IPO happens and investors want an audit of bot activity vs daily active users and then it all goes south from there.
What’s this “from there”? It’s already heading south and they haven’t even had the IPO yet.
Maybe, maybe not. Advertisers are definitely going to want to know how many of their impressions are actual people and how many are bots.