• merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    the average redditor will still insist on appending “Reddit” onto Google searches since it “lets them see real human opinions” only because they can’t discern obvious botting from genuine human interactions

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      A lot of the botting is just copy and pasting previous actual human topics and comments though, so they’re not really wrong.

      Actual bot created content is pretty boring, and never “contributes” in a way that would make for a useful Google result. Your Google result may be a bot’s comment, but if that comment is answering a question of some kind there’s a 99% chance the comment was originally written by a human.

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        2 months ago

        copying and pasting a comment is still less genuine, since that promotes stale and outdated information. It can also create the false idea of a “widely held” opinion rather than a single person’s opinion copied a dozen times.

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          2 months ago

          Well, obviously. But I don’t give a shit about that when I just want a solution to a problem.

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          2 months ago

          promotes stale and outdated information. It can also create the false idea of a “widely held” opinion

          Clue

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        2 months ago

        The content of bots (the desired ones) is at least not banned or removed by anyone. For example, I feel socially excluded by the Reddit and para-Reddit communities because whenever I write something a bit more controversial, it immediately ends up in the trash.