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Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit

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Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.

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This may ultimately be the most impactful event so far in the Reddit API debacle. Without filtering bots, Reddit will quickly devolve into unusable garbage.

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