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It's already been proven that right now over 50% of all traffic online is bots.
And the rest are ads.
as confirmed on reddit too, 50% are propaganda bots. and FB is more blantant at doing it. some users dont realize they could be arguing with bots and getting themselves banned too.
I remember there were these two glorious days just after one of the sanction packages hit russia, that blocked a bunch of Internet services from being accessible, that r/Conservative became a ghost town. Not a single new post for, like, two days, and then someone posted "are we all just bots here?", got banned, post deleted, and by then they figured out how to circumvent the blocks and came back to the regular activity.
REMEMBER that kept happening for sometime, when russia was facing some kind of crisis: remember the nov purges they went quiet around december, and the luigi situation, russian bots also went quiet. the first instance ,sign of them coming back, using a right wing shill, jack prosebic to "rail on luigi". the site was much cleaner without RUSSIA, and Israeli/mossad bots were trying to gatekeep worldnews, until i blocked the sub, and reported the propaganda on other subreddits.
and reddit think its genius to use AI, and other moderation to identify accounts for banning, i say it doesn't stop a person who can create hundreds if not thousands of accounts at once.( also because i think they are purposely not blocking the RU bots)
It's not that. Or rather: it's not because of what you think it is.
They're not blocking them by default for two reasons:
It's both difficult and technically against Reddit's best interest to auto-ban such accounts, nothing more.
thats why they go for the "easiest target" to block. propaganda bots are just too many, and it does work, but reddit would have to keep doing it, im sure they can. but like you said any press is good press. i also visit another forum, where people are using paid methods to evade bans(for thier businesses, OF or links). they whip up legions of accounts at once.
from what ive determined, they use the warming up methods(i dont think state actor bots are doing that) to evade reddit filters.(like waiting a while before commenting or engaging with your account)