12k views but probably 10k are bots and the others are too busy scrolling to ever use your knowledge. And then your content is buried on someone else’s platform. I think reddit (and lemmy for that case) are horrible for keeping and spreading useful information and I wonder why people see them as the best alternative.
That link you posted says the bots are used “to farm karma for the purpose of spamming and scamming”.
How does a bot clicking on my pics help spammers or scammers? I don’t get it. That’s not even a metric that other people can see. Only OP and mods can see the view counts lol
In order to interact in many reddit communities, a certain amount of karma is required. The idea behind this was that it would be harder to just make a million new accounts and start spamming posts. The reality is that it just means that anyone who wants to spam or scam on reddit now has to build a bot infrastructure that can make itself seem legitimate by artificially interacting with the site to gain karma. The bots do this by interacting with the site, making posts to gain karma, etc.
12k views but probably 10k are bots and the others are too busy scrolling to ever use your knowledge. And then your content is buried on someone else’s platform. I think reddit (and lemmy for that case) are horrible for keeping and spreading useful information and I wonder why people see them as the best alternative.
Lol why would you think those are bots?
Because Reddit is overflowing with bots and it’s about to get way worse https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/
That link you posted says the bots are used “to farm karma for the purpose of spamming and scamming”.
How does a bot clicking on my pics help spammers or scammers? I don’t get it. That’s not even a metric that other people can see. Only OP and mods can see the view counts lol
In order to interact in many reddit communities, a certain amount of karma is required. The idea behind this was that it would be harder to just make a million new accounts and start spamming posts. The reality is that it just means that anyone who wants to spam or scam on reddit now has to build a bot infrastructure that can make itself seem legitimate by artificially interacting with the site to gain karma. The bots do this by interacting with the site, making posts to gain karma, etc.
To try and look like real users. Then they sell out upvotes to companies wanting to promote their own posts.