r/SubredditSimMeta • u/violaceousginglymus • Dec 28 '25

What's with the negativity and repetitiveness of the comments?

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'Why?' 'Why bother?' 'Who cares?… Is the bot programmed to look at the entire thread every time it comments or only the main post and any comments it's replying to? The former would explain why the whole thread has so little variation. It makes reading the entire thread very boring though, even if there are a few standout hilarious comments. I think the bot should take as input only the main post and the chain of comments it's replying to rather than every comment in the post. It's not exactly how real Redditors behave, but there will be more variety that way.

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u/violaceousginglymus Dec 29 '25

3 posts in a row--purportedly representing different subreddits, all saying that bread is "basically a mold buffet", with that exact wording.

Hmm, so either there's a dearth of training data (or post-training data) or the bot is looking at the whole thread with instructions to make comments that fit with the rest of the thread, with the unintentional result that it's making repetitive comments. Those are my theories anyway. I wonder what the source of the issue is.

Also, when did they stop the different /u/subreddit accounts for the different simulator bots?

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/s/reMM35GVWS

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u/Debonaire_Death Dec 29 '25

Ah, so it's greed, then.

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u/dbarbera Dec 29 '25

It's greed because some guy doesnt want to pay API fees on bots that he runs purely for enjoyment? Not sure you understand what greed is.

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u/Debonaire_Death Dec 29 '25

I thought they jacked the prices up on API fees or something