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A comment on Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later. Parent comment

Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by Retr0id on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @10:50AM (#40211570)
I know a couple of people who moderate niche-but-active subreddits, and they're still inundated with spam. The only real difference is that they can stay on top of it, for the most part. So yeah, the niche subreddits are still alive, but I think they're struggling.

One of them closed to non-approved submitters, and now they get AI-generated requests for account approval.

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Re:Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by commen... by btreecat on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:14AM (#40211907)
This is exactly why I gave up moderation of a sub that was around 100k members. It just was so much spam and noise and poor tooling to deal with it all.
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