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Bots have been doing this on Reddit forever, it's a lot more noticeable now that most of the good users who generated content have left.
I remember when I first started noticing bots bad was in 2016. They have been there for a while now. It's advertisers turn now though. It's at the end stages
"Most Reddit Addicted City" was Eglin Air Force Base in 2014. Eglin has a history of research about social media influence at their facility.
https://archive.is/1jhHe
That post has been pretty blackholed by the internet at this point. The bots probably started as early as 2010-2012.
The Obama AMA was in 2012, That to me is the turning point for reddit, it's when it's population exploded overnight (which meant old users could no longer enforce cultural norms for the platform), it's when news media really started taking the platform seriously and I think when a lot of the political influence of reddit was realized.
Thanks Obama
South St. Paul also has an Air Force base in it. Which is also on that list
Makes sense. I noticed it was bad because it was obviously election related and completely off topic for the subreddit. So it went past the high quality into the simple and bad
Have you seen /r/worldnews the first 10 page of comments are all hardcore Israel supporters.
It's kind of jarring because they're not really in the rest of the site.
The information warfare units only seem to care about the frontpage so they really stand out. Especially how ham fisted they are about it.
I got a huge strike, which eventually led to me being account banned from Reddit (seven year account, 600k karma) for calling out Israel for the pogrom against the Palestine people. Reddit is really trash now, most of the reference questions are 2+ years old.
It’s in a necrotic state of rot right now.
I try my best not to