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Do you think that it is the reddit admins who are running the repost bots? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago by FuzzyDunlop@slrpnk.net to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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Are they running those bots to create a constant float of content? After all it is reddit who benefits the most from repost bots.

The goal would be to keep posting the same content which is known to create a lot of volume in term of comments and then create a custom API specially designed to train the AI's of their customers.

To me the Eldorado in term of monetization for Reddit is to sell reddit as a playfield for AI's, and for this you need a good API. Needless to say that I've overwritten all my comments before deleting them, I won't feed an AI.

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[–] FuzzyDunlop@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What did you use? I was thinking about doing the same.

A python script, you need the praw library. The clients id's are given in your profile after you create an app.

import praw

reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id='yourid',
	client_secret='yoursecret',
	password='your password',
	user_agent='deletes my comments',
	username='your username')

redditor = reddit.redditor("your username")

for comment in redditor.comments.top(limit=10000):
	comment.edit("deleted")
#	comment.delete()

You can edit and delete everything at once but I prefer to overwrite my comments first and let the old cache machines fill up with my new garbage before deleting.