It felt like every other comment on popular subs (like r/AmITheAsshole) was a bot calling out another bot for having scraped and stolen a comment from someone farther down the comment chain. It makes me think that a significant portion of the traffic being seen still active on Reddit is just bots talking to each other. That, and porn subs, probably.

That was happening? Well it explains a lot of recent reddit then, it really felt people had really weird reading comprehension.

This is interesting. I had no idea this was a thing!