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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The bot is 1m old. Just wait until it gets suspended for "multiple, repeated violations of the content policy" (translation: "don't you dare to shoo the botters! Bot = activity!").

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This account exhibits multiple major traits commonly found in karma farming bots. It is extremely likely that u/Yagirlbella_ is a bot made to farm karma, and it is recommended that you downvote their posts to hinder their success.

That's probably the banworthy part, arguably amounts to "brigading."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At this rate they don't even need it to be banworthy, they simply ban stuff that counters their interests and call it a day.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh sure, I mean, I couldn't care less what Reddit The Company decides to do with Reddit The Website, or what Reddit The Actual Human Userbase thinks about it. Fuck em all.

But I can also see that bringing consequences on to a bot that calls for mass downvoting of individual accounts could be justified, with disregard to what platform the bot operates on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

We're at the point where simply using subs equals brigading to some mods

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting

Analyzing user profile...

Account made less than 1 week ago.

100.00% of this account's posts have titles that already exist.

Suspicion Quotient: 0.91

This account exhibits multiple major traits commonly found in karma farming bots. It is extremely likely that u/Yagirlbella_ is a bot made to farm karma, and it is recommended that you downvote their posts to hinder their success.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Would be more impactful if it gave a sample size for the posts. An account that made one repost as its only post is 100% but imo not as convincing as one that made 12 and also has 100%.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

It's going to be busy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I need one for Lemmy if possible

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Do karma farming bots even have any point on lemmy though?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Karma farming? Of course not- the lack of account-wide karma means Lemmy accounts are worthless to sell.

Now, bots that push propaganda on the other hand...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Propaganda always seems human everytime I see someone pushing an agenda.

Do you have any examples of potential propaganda bots?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The Media Bias “fact checker” bot is propaganda that attempts to push the Overton Window to the right. It calls objective reality “leftist” all the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I was pointing out that pushing propaganda is what would make a bot have a point on Lemmy, not that there actually are bots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those wouldn't be detectable in quite the same way as the reddit "repost a post from awhile ago that got a lot of upvotes because that post is proven to be popular" type karma farmer bots though, I'd figure? Especially given that AI nowadays would allow for them to not just repeat the same comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I wasn't commenting on whether bots actively are on Lemmy, only pointing out that pushing propaganda would be what a bot would do since farming karma is useless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm curious too, the userbase seems too small for anyone to bother

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

afaik probably no but I still want something similar to this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I tried making something like this for lemmy, kinda cool to see how theirs works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Spiderman pointing at spiderman dot gif