Haha, right? I remember writing my first bot on reddit; it was named after Obama, and it made rate-limited "You're welcome!" comments to all of those "Thanks, Obama" eyerolls during his first term. Someone else quickly made a bot to thank it whenever it commented, and they got along very well. I thought it was hilarious at the time.

But it only lasted about a day. Come on, who makes these rules? :P

Good times, when you come to remember them...and now that I do, that was also the first time I spun up an AWS instance. These sorts of fun and games are good for learning, but I do understand why platforms dislike them, especially once they go mainstream.