I would almost be okay with a proffer that it is bots asking the questions, but that the discourse is between human beings. That's all I really care about. It's rare that I respond directly to OP, or at least I do so less frequently than I'm responding to someone in the comments.

I remember back in the early days on forums, sometimes they'd just feel dead, and it was mainly a lack of content (threads). Once a thread would open, us morons behind keyboards could talk it to death, or more likely just divert in perpetuity.

the average redditor will still insist on appending "Reddit" onto Google searches since it "lets them see real human opinions" only because they can't discern obvious botting from genuine human interactions

So.... I could sell my Reddit Account? 10 Years 20K+ Karma, any bids?

/s

but I the real human get permanently banned from all of reddit for "ban evasion" (I deleted my account to change my name and accidentally posted a comment over a month later) and my appeal gets denied in 2 hours 🙃

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There was some nsfw bots I saw and some.karma farm bots some accounts looked like real users one of them only posted purely on that subreddit

No offence to anyone here but fuck Reddit!

Two questions:

1. How can you be sure they're bots?
2. Assuming you can be sure (which I entirely doubt), how do you detect and ban them in a way they can't come back?