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RE: Is Reddit Being Overtaken By Bots? Could Steemit Go The Same Way?

in #steemit7 years ago

Steemit has a LOT more bots than Reddit, used both for good, and bad purposes.

You say that 100,000 interactions on reddit is a lot...but Reddit is big. Very, Very big. 200+ million unique users. In 2015, it had 73 million posts, 700+ million comments, and 6.8 billion upvotes.(This is from wikipedia)

So a 100,000 interactions is peanuts. It's nothing. By comparison, a 100,000 interactions on Steemit would be a LOT.

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Ah, I'm afraid you've misread the article. I never highlighted the number of total bot interactions anywhere.

There are orders of magnitude more than 100,000 interactions on Reddit. The 100,00 number is how many unique users have voted on either GoodBots or BadBots with this one particular voting bot.

As you might imagine, that is a vastly smaller number.

Oh I understood that, maybe I wrote it the wrong way. I'm just saying that a single bot getting 100,000 on reddit is not a big deal because the sheer number of interactions that happen there.

On the other hand, I'm sure a few bots on Steemit have at least 10s of thousands of interactions, and that is crazy for a site that only has 300k accounts(and much less that are actually active).

What I'm saying is that reddit has a lot of bots, but the proportion of bots to humans on reddit is much lower than on Steemit

"I'm just saying that a single bot getting 100,000 on reddit is not a big deal"

Ah, well, what I was saying is that I've only been seeing this particular bot pop up recently. I think he's rather new, and most people don't even know how to vote.

I do think bots at Reddit are probably at an all-time high, but I would agree that there seems to be a greater proportion of comments on Steemit that have bot comments.

I have been avoiding most of Reddit other than cryptocurrency related areas for about a year, however. It's possible there are far more or less bots than I am aware of in the "main" areas, like r/all.

Thanks for the discussion.