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Re:Microsoft Needs Windows Lite by xingped on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:50AM (#48731339)
You have to realize that the majority of reddit "users" are either bots (especially now with LLMs making it so easy to generate text on the fly) or utterly braindead. Just last week I got banned and comment deleted from a subreddit calling out someone for deliberately spreading false information. Their comment? Still there.

I have one friend who just loves listening to AI readings of AI-generated drama farming content purporting to be real content from Reddit. It's bizarre.

I also found at least one subreddit for a product which specifically banned posts with the word "scam" in them when I went to make a post about the product being a scam. If that doesn't tell you how much of a scam it actually is, I don't know what does.

Even before the rise of LLMs, everyone knew Reddit was astroturfed to hell and back.

Reddit mods are largely paid shills. Reddit users are zombies. It's worthless to consider the site as a good source of information or sentiment anymore.

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Re:Microsoft Needs Windows Lite by LoganDark on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:07AM (#48731526)
Bigots can exist without being paid shills...
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Re:Microsoft Needs Windows Lite by xingped on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:50AM (#48732755)
This is also true, but for what I was calling out, people do pay off mods to supress or promote certain content on the subs they moderate or mods push their own sites or products if they have something to push.
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Re:Microsoft Needs Windows Lite by AlexeyBelov on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:33AM (#48743035)
No, Reddit users are not braindead or zombies. It's one of the most visited sites on the internet with a varied demographic. They are just normal people.
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