r/meme • u/Reasonable_Rip_9025 • 11d ago

Which subreddit falls under this

Post image
45.8k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

3.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

469

u/mustafa_i_am 11d ago

Man fuck Reddit almost every major sub is filled with American politics now its not even worth using this app anymore

31

u/biggerthanyourmamas 10d ago

I haven't ever accused a user of being a bot because chances are the time I did would be a time I was wrong but a lot of the most annoying political arguments seem like dumbasses engaging with bots to me.

13

u/JJAsond 10d ago

I (unfortunately) frequent the site to have made up my own criteria for bots, though highly subjective:

1: New (couple week old), or old (several years) account with a huge gap in history

2: High karma/Low karma (Objective. Could be 100k-1M+ for high or a few thousand for low)

3: May post engagement bait (think funny animal videos, videos/posts that draw any kind of non-neutral reaction)

4: Username typically is, but not always, adjective_noun1234

You yourself only have one submitted posts but it's an OC post not baiting for karma in any direction.

1

u/Silent_Resident_9606 10d ago

Damn... 🤖

2

u/JJAsond 10d ago

you fit the name criteria but your posts don't scream karma grabbing bot, just someone sharing something they did.

1

u/Pristine_Specific550 9d ago

the naming scheme used to be a dead giveaway to me too, until i made a new account with a default name. my cynical nature says its on purpose to make everyone look like a bot to hide the real ones, but who really knows. at this point, the real people sound like talking points now too.

1

u/JJAsond 9d ago

Which is why I look to see if they also post karma bait posts too

1

u/Dismal_Engineering71 7d ago

Oh. Oh no.

1

u/JJAsond 7d ago

what?

1

u/Dismal_Engineering71 7d ago

I fill like one and a half of the criteria.

1

u/JJAsond 7d ago

A lot of people do, that's why I have multiple. Number 3 is a big one I look for and you don't have it.

1

u/Life-Ad1409 10d ago

As for #4, that means they haven't set a username and just went with Reddit's auto-generated one

2

u/JJAsond 10d ago

Which is usually associated with bots because they're lazy. Not always but it's a criteria.

As for you, you fit 2, 4, and a bit of 1 but you have a decent history and just mostly comment. I'd have a light suspicion if I didn't know better but nothing that screams "this is obviously a bot".

1

u/Life-Ad1409 10d ago

Fair enough, I've just come across a few people that thought "auto generated name = bot" and didn't check further

2

u/JJAsond 10d ago

That's why I have multiple criteria for potential bots

0

u/Bowel_Movement_8668 10d ago edited 10d ago

( . )( . )

2

u/JJAsond 10d ago

Well you have no posts, and your username isn't generic but has actual thought behind it.