Interesting. I wonder if there were any mod tools (before reddit broke them) that automatically banned accounts like that. I doubt serious bot creators would use that auto-name style but it might’ve gotten rid of some spam.
It’s not serious bot creators that you need to worry about. Trolls use the “adjective noun number” format on their new accounts. Restricting those users, accounts less than 3 days old, and accounts with less than zero karma will virtually eliminate trolling.
If trolls had patience and foresight, they wouldn’t be trolls.
I found this screenshot elsewhere, where people were sharing stuff about reddit feeling worse and worse.
Just did some googling and found the original post for this one, and it looks like it’s from August or September, so not that long after a significant chunk of users gave up on the site.
I can’t get over the people in the comments there complaining about reddit being a literal communist platform. Meanwhile here we have actual communist instances, reddit isn’t even lukewarm left leaning. Liberal at best.
got the link? OP’s account is (suspiciously?) deleted
I just assumed that everyone with a username of word-word-number there was a bot or sockpuppet.
I think reddit gives new accounts a default username with that format.
It’s also people who create throwaways. Reddit gives a randomized username following that format.
Interesting. I wonder if there were any mod tools (before reddit broke them) that automatically banned accounts like that. I doubt serious bot creators would use that auto-name style but it might’ve gotten rid of some spam.
It’s not serious bot creators that you need to worry about. Trolls use the “adjective noun number” format on their new accounts. Restricting those users, accounts less than 3 days old, and accounts with less than zero karma will virtually eliminate trolling.
If trolls had patience and foresight, they wouldn’t be trolls.
On the subreddits I moderated, I used a big regexp to preemptively filter their comments
Letting one through was a rare event
I found this screenshot elsewhere, where people were sharing stuff about reddit feeling worse and worse.
Just did some googling and found the original post for this one, and it looks like it’s from August or September, so not that long after a significant chunk of users gave up on the site.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/15itv7e/has_anyone_noticed_that_reddit_is_a_bit_dead/
I can’t get over the people in the comments there complaining about reddit being a literal communist platform. Meanwhile here we have actual communist instances, reddit isn’t even lukewarm left leaning. Liberal at best.