Even before the API change, reposts were becoming rampant. For a while, this wasn’t too bad as new people got to see and enjoy them. The real issue started when all the top level comments, and the replies to those comments, all started to be word for word identical to the comments from the last time it was posted. A copy of a copy of a copy.
I am convinced that most of the big subreddits no longer have any real human engagement in the top level comments. It’s all just bots talking to each other.
Even before the API change, reposts were becoming rampant. For a while, this wasn’t too bad as new people got to see and enjoy them. The real issue started when all the top level comments, and the replies to those comments, all started to be word for word identical to the comments from the last time it was posted. A copy of a copy of a copy.
I am convinced that most of the big subreddits no longer have any real human engagement in the top level comments. It’s all just bots talking to each other.
Wasnt the problem that the reposts were being made by bots to get karma to allow them to make fake posts to scam people?