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Re:Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts by johnmaguire on Thursday April 23, 2026 @10:30AM (#47876204)
I assumed this was meant to make the bot postings less obvious to normal users, to buy them time to "solve the problem."

But definitely, bots on reddit seem significantly more common in the past year or two.

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Re:Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts by bawolff on Thursday April 23, 2026 @12:07PM (#47877446)
Reddit's also famous for NSFW content. There are also stories about harrasing people who post in the "wrong" subreddit (e.g. political subreddits that are the opposite view).

I think there are non bot reasons to do that.

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