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[–]Vulptex 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Not really actually, but only because it's where all the people are.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reddit is looking dead these days. The number of comments also do not support the number of upvotes on most front page posts being organic. It has the same problem Twitter does, there's so many convincing bots, a much smaller amount of people are given the illusion of a large audience.

[–]brimshae 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Are the posters actual people, though? I know a couple of people who run bot farms to sell off accounts with heavily manipulated karma, and I'm sure there's more.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can tell it's a bot when everything it says is an unintelligible word salad, or it only copies from other people.