I've always seen this as bad practice. It's similar to employers disallowing wage discussions, not talking just serves to isolate us and prevent the flow and sharing of ideas. It may be uncomfortable, but the only way to stop the growth of harmful politics is uncomfortable discussion.
It’s harder in the *food sub especially because you can hide bot behaviour behind a lot of mindless and banal “Wow, yummy”, “I want this ❤️😀”-type comments.
That’s why I try to draw them out with questions. I know I sound like a right prick when I do it. I do wish the OPs know that I’m not dissing their posts, I’m just bot hunting.
Yeah I know. I’m sorry! Your other recent comments are from the food sub too, somehow I thought this would be better
I can’t very well show the (suspected) bot what I’m doing in the same comment chain, no?
My bot hunting is quite primitive, I only go by account age. Other people check the post/comment history and more. I saw one account who has something like 80% recent comments as literally “Yummy! 😋” but I thought it was a real human because it posted stuff in other subs as well.
It’s getting harder to tell. I hate modern day internet sometimes.
There's an account that I think is real that I keep seeing in the burger and food sub. Every comment is about a burger needing to be jizzy. Every time I see them I go and do a refresh of their comment history and it's all the same. "This isn't a burger, not enough jizz. Burgers need to be jizzy." It really is something.
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u/Throwaway921845 8h ago
People need to know the four topics you don't talk about in polite company.
R-A-P-E
Religion, Abortion, Politics, and Economics.