why is reddit allowing creating of bot accounts? Money?
I would make it so new accounts have very limited permissions, create a way for real users to confirm they are humans like via SMS or how other competent social media do it.
Bot accounts used to be useful in the past, and I'd bet some of them remain. Bots like the one that would ping you in X days (to see if a discussion ever had an update), the one that would tell how many times a user used the n word (useful for witch hunts), the one who would summarize stuff for you before it was cool, the ones that would identify topics from the FAQ and tell you so...
Why they are not currently keeping them in check, though? I'd like to say "engagement" but I prefer to believe in "incompetence".
I am guessing here, no data or proof,
but there are a lot of very young accounts that defend Putin, defend soviet war crimes , try to cause chaos, do personal attacks in comments. This accounts have sometimes real people behind but for sure bots/scripts are used to create them and then farm karma/points to be allowed to post. Someone like me with a single account for years must always be sure to fllow the rules, this bots/trolls are always aggressive, spread false shit and do not care if banned, and seems reddit is fine with same troll making many accounts and use them for bad stuff.
Because some subreddits require you have some karma before commenting, more karma to be allowed to post I assume this trolls use scripts to post random stuff to get this karma points. There are bots that find popular past submission and post the same thing again to get the karma points.
So EU or USA needs to tell reddit that they are responsible for the shit posted by bots and we will see tehm inventing ways to stop 99% of them/
I would make it so new accounts have very limited permissions, create a way for real users to confirm they are humans like via SMS or how other competent social media do it.