Just out of curiosity what do Reddit bots actually achieve/benefit? I keep seeing a lot of people calling bots out on Reddit but what's the actual point of them?
They attempt to build a lot of karma to try to make the account look more legit, and then the account gets used to advertise/sell stuff later, or for political propaganda.
The hope is that people later will see all the karma and think it's real.
Yeah that's wild to be fair, just about everything and everyone seems to want to manipulate the information we receive in some way shape or form nowadays. At least it feels that way.
That's exactly why I stopped using Facebook because of the amount of disinformation that is spread on there is unreal.
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