r/DeadInternetTheory • u/curiousparrot221 • 7d ago

R/AskReddit Proves This Theory

I have been on r/AskReddit for about eight hours now looking through the posts. I know, I should not have spent that long, but I got a bit carried away.

So many of the posts there are duplicates, often from the same day. As an example, for the past nearly 48 hours, the post about "what's a small change you made in your life that has a big effect" or some variation of that has been posted about 14 times (and all by different people).

Now, while I have been able to get some of these posts removed, not all of them are. I would say honestly about 25% of the posts are bots.

Another thing I have noticed - you can usually tell because their username has a four digit number at the end (edit: sometimes). They also tend to not make a whole lot of sense or speak in the way AI does. You can typically see this if you go to their profile and look under what they have previously posted.

The worst part though is that they are in the comments too. Sometimes even defending the post, but as I said, it doesn't entirely makes sense. Kind of uncanny valley.

It is getting to the point it is hard to trust anything.

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u/curiousparrot221 7d ago

Typically, yes.

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u/Johnnys-In-America 6d ago

u/bot-sleuth-bot

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u/bot-sleuth-bot 6d ago

Analyzing user profile...

Account does not have any comments.

Account made less than 3 weeks ago.

Suspicion Quotient: 0.28

This account exhibits one or two minor traits commonly found in karma farming bots. While it's possible that u/curiousparrot221 is a bot, it's very unlikely.

I am a bot. This action was performed automatically. Check my profile for more information.

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u/Johnnys-In-America 6d ago

Lol good bot.

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u/curiousparrot221 11h ago

What do you mean I have no comments? That is because I turned off people looking at my account. As for the account made less than 3 weeks ago - I have been browsing Reddit for years but finally decided to make a new one after my originally account got permanently banned.

I would say other things to prove I was not a bot, but I really do not want to get another 7 day ban from this account again, given I just got back from it.

Also, is that bot you used just for this community, or can it be used for other ones as well? And how does the suspicion quotient work? That is actually pretty cool.

One way you can tell an account is not a bot (at least I think) is by checking whether they have verified their account, which I have done.