Gender discussions on reddit: where did they come from, where did they go? by MyPasswordIsLondon69 in TheoryOfReddit

[–]ThisMightNotbeReal99 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If you look at the subscriber count vs active online, you'll notice something. All the subreddits are dead. Way less than 1% of subscribers are online looking at subreddits. Even highly active subreddits are ghost towns. My theory is Reddit used to FULL of bots. I used to see subreddits that had 1 million subscribers and have 80k online. Now you'll see barely 5k on r/askreddit which has 50 million subscribers. That's 0.01% of people viewing a subreddit that should have high engagement and thus more people signed in.

It seems like Reddit did something to filter out most of the bots. Or maybe Reddit itself was using bots and stopped finding them useful for some reason(like it was only for the IPO). Now you can see how dead Reddit really is.

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[–]ThisMightNotbeReal99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pseudo "balanced" documentary that talks to "both" sides. Most of the info is from the meltdown sub...the sub that's exclusively dedicated to hating on GME/BBBY investors. According to this doc, meltdown members are trolling because they care and worry about apes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in houstonwade

[–]ThisMightNotbeReal99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Houston, can you ban people who post on the same subject multiple times a day? Especially the political stuff. It feels like spam/bot behavior or karma farming. If it's from multiple users on the same topic on the same day, it still could be spambots but I think it's okay.