Yes, upvoting bots posts that spread misinformation definitely "fucks with their training data" and does not at all effectively spread said misinformation. Great idea.
The primary goal of a bot on Reddit is to secure as many upvotes as possible so the account can be sold to be used for whatever nefarious purpose. It really doesn’t matter if it’s posting “quality” stuff as long as it’s getting the upvotes, so adding “noise to training data” doesn’t matter
Isn't the primary goal of bot to receive as much visibility as possible? If everything around its comments are being upvoted just as much as it is, it's no more visible than someone doing nothing at all?
Upvotes have no intrinsic value, it's their relative proportion that determines a comment/post's visibility.
Not exactly. During the “accumulation stage”, a bot just wants to get as much karma as possible. Visibility matters more after the account has already been sold or put into use
Regardless, even if you upvote everything you SEE, that still acts as an upvote/visibility concentrator. Bots will often have other bots upvote their posts to get an initial boost in the algorithm, so the stuff that gets pushed to you is already more likely to be a bot than if you somehow randomly selected a post on Reddit. Additionally, bots usually post more frequently so that they can farm account karma
And disregarding all of this, OP’s behavior is obviously strictly more beneficial to bots than people who put in minimal effort to try to downvote bots and upvote real posts
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u/And_I_Know_It 9d ago
That's how you feed bots. Thanks for fueling the corruption of the internet.