I have a few though they're pretty obvious: repetition of a tangent to some overall controversial point to try to deflect, the usual AI syntax and diction tells, quick and frequent replies to engagement. These are present on X too, X makes it easy enough to say "fuck yo couch" but I'm in the ocean trying to filter out salt by the cupful with that method.
I've been reading the drama so long the first indicator was the massive drop in the number of threads. Then the number of upvotes on the threads, and comments are very low. The threads in alternative history are normal to see a few hundred upvotes, with ten comments. Because taking the time to write out a theory is valued more than agreeing or disagreeing. That doesn't fly with a drama thread. You read it to give advice, or share an opinion. It's drama, you're there for the drama.
The next indicator was places like bored panda started going in the past for posts (archives), and even started forums of their own because the content was no longer at a publishing level. Even different sites suddenly had the exact hot thread that day. That didn't used to happen. There used to be enough to go around. Today even the repost subreddits are reposting too soon. That used only happen when there was an update.
Everything above is a comparison of before, and after. I can see the difference.
My son listens to tiktoks that read the drama because he's dyslexic. The next indicator I had was hearing on a different platform almost the exact same story I read on bestofredditupdates the night before but gender swapped, and jobs changed. But, posted as if it was a new situation. That may happen once in a while, but not as often as it started happening.
Then the drama started getting like romance novels in that they would be published in trends. ( the reason for that was seminars where the authors were all given the same prompt btw) Then the OP never replied to comments. For people that read bestofreddituodates or subredditdrama, we recognize the stories. I have to admit to posting articles, and falling asleep. But, articles don't need me to answer questions on the situation like drama does. It's horrible to read drama with a cliffhanger!
After that was being commented on, calling out a fake story became a ban level offense. ( I don't comment on Reddit anymore ) There are comment bots, and they were easier for me to spot because the em dash thing people pointed to as the number one indicator, I have to force stop the Grammarly keyboard from doing that with my comments. There were a few good lists of good indicators of an ai post. Reddit responded by removing post history. All the comments were making the same typing error. That's not statistically possible with all the different device users are on. Skipped word is the one I see the most.
Also sometimes I click dumb shit. Like the mod comments. And the mods were in admin, and modhelp being told they either did as they were told or they would be removed as mods. The mods were once again being forced to ban people for no reason.
If you used Reddit for any amount of time, the bots mined your comment style. My use of quotations, and capital letters is grammatically correct, but the kids that use text speak don't have any idea that title of books, movies etc are supposed to be like that. They comment ," What's with the random capitalized words?" so often that ai is not not as correct. They're there, and their ( and words like that) are intentional errors. That has the exception of text to speech, and ESOL. Which reddits userbase is no longer primarily the US. Much more SEA commenters are being seen. They were probably always there, but we didn't see them nearly as much.
If you search for how to spot a bot in Google specifically,( remember they have a contract to be the only search engine to mine Reddit) the top comment is look at search history. That contract was the first offsite indicator of dead internet theory because webscrapping would show the bots.
Sorry for the long post. There's a few more details. But, its like adblock, and adblockers. As soon as people comment on them the people doing a good job edit the bots.
So quality degradation, repetition of stories with minor details changed, and homogenization of subreddits that used to operate on a different wavelength and now act more like the main boards.
I recall, too, some location scraper detecting that a lot of posting activity was centralized in Elgin AFB, prime location for government propaganda. We live in the fakest and gayest period of humanity
What are your indicators?
I have a few though they're pretty obvious: repetition of a tangent to some overall controversial point to try to deflect, the usual AI syntax and diction tells, quick and frequent replies to engagement. These are present on X too, X makes it easy enough to say "fuck yo couch" but I'm in the ocean trying to filter out salt by the cupful with that method.
I've been reading the drama so long the first indicator was the massive drop in the number of threads. Then the number of upvotes on the threads, and comments are very low. The threads in alternative history are normal to see a few hundred upvotes, with ten comments. Because taking the time to write out a theory is valued more than agreeing or disagreeing. That doesn't fly with a drama thread. You read it to give advice, or share an opinion. It's drama, you're there for the drama.
The next indicator was places like bored panda started going in the past for posts (archives), and even started forums of their own because the content was no longer at a publishing level. Even different sites suddenly had the exact hot thread that day. That didn't used to happen. There used to be enough to go around. Today even the repost subreddits are reposting too soon. That used only happen when there was an update.
Everything above is a comparison of before, and after. I can see the difference.
My son listens to tiktoks that read the drama because he's dyslexic. The next indicator I had was hearing on a different platform almost the exact same story I read on bestofredditupdates the night before but gender swapped, and jobs changed. But, posted as if it was a new situation. That may happen once in a while, but not as often as it started happening.
Then the drama started getting like romance novels in that they would be published in trends. ( the reason for that was seminars where the authors were all given the same prompt btw) Then the OP never replied to comments. For people that read bestofreddituodates or subredditdrama, we recognize the stories. I have to admit to posting articles, and falling asleep. But, articles don't need me to answer questions on the situation like drama does. It's horrible to read drama with a cliffhanger!
After that was being commented on, calling out a fake story became a ban level offense. ( I don't comment on Reddit anymore ) There are comment bots, and they were easier for me to spot because the em dash thing people pointed to as the number one indicator, I have to force stop the Grammarly keyboard from doing that with my comments. There were a few good lists of good indicators of an ai post. Reddit responded by removing post history. All the comments were making the same typing error. That's not statistically possible with all the different device users are on. Skipped word is the one I see the most.
Also sometimes I click dumb shit. Like the mod comments. And the mods were in admin, and modhelp being told they either did as they were told or they would be removed as mods. The mods were once again being forced to ban people for no reason.
If you used Reddit for any amount of time, the bots mined your comment style. My use of quotations, and capital letters is grammatically correct, but the kids that use text speak don't have any idea that title of books, movies etc are supposed to be like that. They comment ," What's with the random capitalized words?" so often that ai is not not as correct. They're there, and their ( and words like that) are intentional errors. That has the exception of text to speech, and ESOL. Which reddits userbase is no longer primarily the US. Much more SEA commenters are being seen. They were probably always there, but we didn't see them nearly as much.
If you search for how to spot a bot in Google specifically,( remember they have a contract to be the only search engine to mine Reddit) the top comment is look at search history. That contract was the first offsite indicator of dead internet theory because webscrapping would show the bots.
Sorry for the long post. There's a few more details. But, its like adblock, and adblockers. As soon as people comment on them the people doing a good job edit the bots.
So quality degradation, repetition of stories with minor details changed, and homogenization of subreddits that used to operate on a different wavelength and now act more like the main boards.
I recall, too, some location scraper detecting that a lot of posting activity was centralized in Elgin AFB, prime location for government propaganda. We live in the fakest and gayest period of humanity
Yes. Don't forget Reddit marketing. During the black or there were multiple articles showimg prices.