Here’s 2 post with same title, image and comment.
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On r/StardewMemes posted on 12th October. https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewMemes/comments/1g24guh/am_i_am_i_sebastian/
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On r/StardewValley posted on 15 April 2021. https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/mridh7/am_i_am_i_sebastian
Check !stardewvalley@lemm.ee for active Lemmy community.
Reddit as a whole has a huge botting problem. And it isn’t exactly new, although it got worse past ChatGPT.
This was happening since 2015 on a massive scale, in small and big subreddits, getting increasingly worse each year.
It has been so bad and easy to spot with simple bots, that there’s no other option that reddit’s owners are complicit.
That’s one of the big reasons I quit besides the 3rd party app they took off me.
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheseFuckingAccounts/ if you want more examples
At this point in the time, it would be more surprising pointing out what subreddits aren’t full of bot spam.
That’s been going on for quite some time. Back before the migration i can see some user intentionally combing reddit to find out who is botting and calling them out. Of course, no action taken.
It’s way worse now though. I don’t know if the bots ramped up or if there’s just more exposure since there’s fewer users but it is so much more obvious now. But yeah, OP should not be surprised to see repost bots. What’s worse is how many comments are now bots too, and not just repost bots of popular comments, buts actual LLM responses.
Also, Someone reposted Stardew Valley in Ghibli art style claiming as OC but It was originally posted in 2021. Reddit is really fucked up.
My guy, repost bots have been a thing for a long, long time
But reposting it and claiming it as OC. TF
The bots just copy the original title verbatim, OC tags and all, right?
Comments are definitely ChatGPT. Oof.
Why go for niche subs though?
The sub is very positive and has a very high uovote rate. My guess is good for karma farming.
I dunno. Why bots are doing this :(. They are ruining Stardew Valley Sub.
Bot accounts farming karma, since karma actually became a useful currency on Reddit once communities started restricting accounts from posting or commenting that didn’t have scores over a certain threshold. Then those bot accounts with “real” looking karma scores can go spew out commercial and political advertisements anywhere else.
SDV and other niche subs get hit because even without the bots there all upvoting each other, it was already a happy go lucky upvote party.
Karma give money or something now?
Directly, not that I’m aware of. Though it’s not news that people buy accounts with lots of karma.
