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Just checked in on the subreddit mentioned in this post. It's still getting bot posts in the same style, which get upvoted accordingly and commented on with the vast majority not noticing or caring that it's slop. Mods still out to lunch.

Likewise, there's now a post on /r/all (seen using old.reddit, the only way to get to it now) at #10 and climbing with the same style but targeting povertyfinance, a bigger sub (one with a pinned message claiming to be a "heavily moderated subreddit"). If you look at the users, you can see the details of how they create a couple comments in random subs until one of those comments get several dozen upvotes, then go for the viral post. All accounts make a move around 8 days after creation. And it's working, no problem.

Two bot profiles that just reached this point for comparison/posterity:

https://imgur.com/a/6bz8XxI

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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm getting suspicious of the relationship posts here. They follow a lot of the algorithm trends that take off on reddit, and I think some instances don't screen on sign up for people looking to set up a bot

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I know people like to hate on piefeds "Attitude" % on users, but you can clearly see on piefed if a user is mass down-voting posts, if they are new, if they have been flagged by other instances as bots/spam/etc.... it helps with finding red flags on accounts that just popped into existence.

I always get suspicious of accounts with firstsecondword123 because this is the fediverse, you dont need to post-pend numbers if you dont want to. Just make your own instance or something. But you see a lot of bots that do that, mostly on the big social media sites.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that's a pretty good defense of it. I'll probably end up getting a piefed, even though that attitude thing creeped me out

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

It works more often than not. I think it just needs to be revamped into something other than "attitude" as the verbiage. Its more nuanced than that....but I have no idea what is the correct "way" of saying it. It helps so much though in day to day posting and commenting. It essentially helps me find out if someone is a bot/troll/of just someone with an unfortunate wrong opinion lol.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

all the relationship ones on reddit are AI/ fake. its so preposterous sounding its not believable.