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RE: Some thoughts on the Reddit token system

in #reddit3 years ago

If you've ever used Reddit you'll know it's quite "hit and miss", you either post something at the wrong time or it has been reposted already without you really being able to figure out beforehand cause their search function is famously bad, or someone just downvotes you for no apparent reason because most downvoters don't care about the Reddiquette of how the voting system should be used. Most of the time you'll be downvoted.

In most of the big subreddits there are a few dozen downvoting bots. Really the only way to get around that for what I used to do when I had a gaming youtube channel was have a few dozen accounts I had to use to upvote stuff. I did a lot of stuff like 4 years ago and was pretty involved in the gaming community, the downvote bots are horrible.

I expect it to be worse once more rewards and stuff like this start happening, they don't ban those downvote bots either, they have been running for years and still run today.

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Those bots seem to be all people talk about in r/cryptocurrency now so they seem to already have started to exist a lot more even though the Moons token is barely worth anything.

Yup, give it some time and a few people will come up with some insane scripts.

There are some really great scripts for botting on Runescape and the game is getting more and more bots on it every year. There's bots on there that cannot be detected at all. I used to run bots on alt names on Runescape to make some extra gold and stuff for my main account, I had 3 to 4 bots running almost 24/7 lol. The bots that some people make are insanely good, they respond to everything you say realistically, they understand the entirety of the game. There are even bots now that are so good at PvP you can't beat them, the bots automatically switch gear/weapons mid fight, switch prayers/drink potions at the right time to avoid dying, etc. It's pretty messed up how good bots can get. Only a matter of time until someone starts making some crazy good bots and farms tons of Moons by just having hundreds or thousands of bots commenting and upvoting themselves.

A simple search will aldready show you what people are doing on Reddit. Throw some value behind the votes and you'll have shit we can't even fathom here yet.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reddit+upvote+bot

yup yup