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From the article:

A volunteer-made project that fights bots on Reddit is shutting down. BotDefense, a tool that helps fight bots in more than 3,600 subreddits and has nearly 150,000 accounts on its bans list, will be going away.

As for why: The community of users and moderators submitting accounts to us depend on Pushshift, the API, and third-party apps. And we would be deluding ourselves if we believed any assurances from Reddit given the track record of broken promises. Investing further resources into Reddit as a platform presents significant risks, and it’s safer to allocate one’s time, energy, and passions elsewhere.

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[–] devious 68 points 2 years ago (1 children)

More bots on Reddit? Isn't this what spez was going for?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As long as he can fool advertisers about activity

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think he looked at /r/subredditsimulator and decided it was something to be taken seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

that was one of my favorite subs ever

wish the creator would have let it run for longer

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

tfw the most reddit addicted city is an AWS datacenter