Reddit had a lot of “zombie” content: old popular content that was scraped and reposted by karma farming bots. If you spent way too much time lurking, you’d start to notice that you’d seen almost every post before (probably 6 months prior). It definitely has more real content than Lemmy currently does, which is why we must nourish and protect our precious little sapling of a content aggregator.
Reminds me of Google trying to force everyone with any kind of Google account to use Google+. If you had an account on YouTube, it’d convert that to a Google account, automatically create a Google+ account for it, and start posting your activities to it by itself. I know a ton of people who had active Google+ accounts they didn’t even know about.
How many times must they be sued for this exact thing? It would be nice if they faced some real consequences this time.
Boooooooooo, karma farming is one of the reasons Reddit is the way it is. We don’t need bots scraping old posts, reposting them and then other bots posting the top comments from the old post. That along with the totally natural and candid “this product™ changed my life, so let me tell you about it” posts are my least favorite advent of the last decade of Reddit.
Same, though my attempt at a pure evil run is to still be super polite to every NPC at every opportunity, but do evil things when it helps min-max.