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https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/
Like many anti-abuse projects on Reddit, we’ve done all of this for free while putting up with Reddit’s penchant for springing detrimental changes on developers and moderators (e.g., adding API limits without advance notice and blocking Pushshift) and figuring out workarounds for numerous scalability issues that Reddit never seems to fix. Without Pushshift, the number of malicious bots we were able to ban dropped to 5,517 in May.
The “blocking Pushift” part is what actively makes their work harder by a lot.
subzero12479@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?English
11·3 years agoBots on Reddit for example did farm karma to later sell those accounts (more karma makes accounts look more legit) or circumnavigate karma thresholds to spam. There is no karma here so that’s (hopefully) not going to become a thing.
subzero12479@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5, 10 or 15 years on Reddit
4·3 years agoComments starting with “!remind me” are automatically removed in some subreddits, maybe that was the issue.


Wie wär’s damit? https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Vibration-alarm-reminder-instructions-German/dp/B0855ZMGLN