Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purgefne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world – 1559 points – 10 months agoarstechnica.com374Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsIs that why 90% of everything is the same unfunny reposts from 80 years ago now?So nothing's changed then?Due to the lack of visible karma, people repost way less on Lemmy than on reddit.It's less about visible karma and more about how high karma can push you to r/all faster, meaning people can sell those accounts. You just have bots that auto post to lemmy from reddit instead, and flood the feed with no intervention. Which may actually be worse.I block them. Did a big rant about that very topic a while back.lemm.ee made plans to block bots.I've seen not only reposts, but also comments that I swear I've seen before with thousands of upvotes. The repost swarm is working in overdrive.Are they at least labeled as bots?Obviously not. This is Reddit we're talking about here.No, this is business as usual for Reddit
Is that why 90% of everything is the same unfunny reposts from 80 years ago now?So nothing's changed then?Due to the lack of visible karma, people repost way less on Lemmy than on reddit.It's less about visible karma and more about how high karma can push you to r/all faster, meaning people can sell those accounts. You just have bots that auto post to lemmy from reddit instead, and flood the feed with no intervention. Which may actually be worse.I block them. Did a big rant about that very topic a while back.lemm.ee made plans to block bots.I've seen not only reposts, but also comments that I swear I've seen before with thousands of upvotes. The repost swarm is working in overdrive.Are they at least labeled as bots?Obviously not. This is Reddit we're talking about here.No, this is business as usual for Reddit
Due to the lack of visible karma, people repost way less on Lemmy than on reddit.It's less about visible karma and more about how high karma can push you to r/all faster, meaning people can sell those accounts. You just have bots that auto post to lemmy from reddit instead, and flood the feed with no intervention. Which may actually be worse.I block them. Did a big rant about that very topic a while back.lemm.ee made plans to block bots.
It's less about visible karma and more about how high karma can push you to r/all faster, meaning people can sell those accounts.
You just have bots that auto post to lemmy from reddit instead, and flood the feed with no intervention. Which may actually be worse.I block them. Did a big rant about that very topic a while back.lemm.ee made plans to block bots.
I've seen not only reposts, but also comments that I swear I've seen before with thousands of upvotes. The repost swarm is working in overdrive.Are they at least labeled as bots?Obviously not. This is Reddit we're talking about here.
Is that why 90% of everything is the same unfunny reposts from 80 years ago now?
So nothing's changed then?
Due to the lack of visible karma, people repost way less on Lemmy than on reddit.
It's less about visible karma and more about how high karma can push you to r/all faster, meaning people can sell those accounts.
You just have bots that auto post to lemmy from reddit instead, and flood the feed with no intervention.
Which may actually be worse.
I block them. Did a big rant about that very topic a while back.
lemm.ee made plans to block bots.
I've seen not only reposts, but also comments that I swear I've seen before with thousands of upvotes. The repost swarm is working in overdrive.
Are they at least labeled as bots?
Obviously not. This is Reddit we're talking about here.
No, this is business as usual for Reddit