• May@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Now that i read it: i saw some ppl here wonder about bots posting comments or maybe downvoting, bc of apparently a lot of comments being against the protest suddenly more than before? And more downvotes on comments about it? If really bots are being used for this, will that also contribute to the traffic metric like a normal user would?

    But that said im not sure if theyre bots, but i did see some people mentioned that they thought there’s some false accounts speaking on Reddit’s side.

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      You take away power users and people fed up with Reddit and the casual user who doesn’t care is left over.

      If you look at blackout votes it was usually around 4 to 1 in favor.

      During and shortly after the blackouts there were a ton of upset casual users calling the mods cunts, the blackouts don’t help, stop holding other users hostage, give me back my content!!!

      Those users don’t care about third party apps, mod tooling and so on, they just want to browse the site. These angry users got the loudest while protestors took a break or left for the Fediverse.

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      1 year ago

      There’s a curious sameness to many of the anti-protest comments. If it’s not a bot, it’s a group of people working off the same script.

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      1 year ago

      The .world instance has a lot of people with issues that have been kicked off of other instances and they are here

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      1 year ago

      If really bots are being used for this, will that also contribute to the traffic metric like a normal user would?

      no: bots generally use the API and, even if they went through the web ui, bot traffic doesn’t generally trigger tracking (you could write a bot that does that, but it would be extra work)

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        The point made is that it would be bots used by Reddit to trigger tracking specifically to inflate stats.