I think it's a straw-man issue, hyped beyond necessity to avoid the real problem. Moderation has always been hard, with AI it's only getting worse. Avoiding the research because it's embarrassing just prolongs and deepens the problem
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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didn't reddit do this secretly a few years ago, as well ?
I don't know what you have in mind but the founders originally used bots to generate activity to make the site look popular. Which begs the question. What was really the root reddit cultures. Was it the bots following human activity to bolster it. Or were the humans merely following what the founders programmed the bots to post.
One things for sure, reddit has always been a platform of questionable integrity.