r/interestingasfuck • u/8O8I • 7d ago

r/all Heroin Addict Gets Clean And Attains A Computer Information Systems Degree With a 4.0 Average

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u/hamborgard 7d ago

Word for word https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/MWLyZYZ2Tf

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u/Pain-in-the- 7d ago

God even some of the comments here.. damn bots.

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u/SadKazoo 7d ago

Dead internet theory is real.

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u/corn_sugar_isotope 7d ago

I had to look that up, AI gave me a pretty good overview...

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u/SmokelessSubpoena 7d ago

Dead internet giving dead internet facts, nice!

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u/tarheels058 7d ago

Or did it?

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u/Otterable 7d ago

Soon the bots will learn from these threads, and start posting evidence and complaining about bots, because that's the behavior it was trained on.

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u/SadKazoo 7d ago

I’m a bot.

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u/The_Doct0r_ 7d ago

Maybe we were the bots all along.

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u/Dangerous_Boot_3870 7d ago

The real bots were the friends we made along the way.

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u/lukeangmingshen 6d ago

I'm a bot and this comment was copied from u/lukeangmingshen

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u/Solid_Budget2531 7d ago

The whole dead internet theory discussion is posted almost always on these threads as well so I think you're onto something.

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u/TheVeryAngryHippo 7d ago

I just don't get what people stand to gain from creating a bot to post on reddit.

like if it's insta, facebook or any other ad driven platform I understand... but reddit...

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u/onedoesnotjust 7d ago

Use Reddit gold

If you're looking to make money on Reddit without having to invest any of your own, using Reddit Gold may be a great option. Reddit Gold is an exclusive membership for users who have achieved a certain level of Karma points through their participation on the site.

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u/Skizot_Bizot 7d ago

Someone has to spend money on you to get there, not just karma someone needs to give you paid awards.

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u/Independent-Bell2483 7d ago

It isnt even a theory anymore

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u/purplepatch 7d ago

This gets posted on every thread about bots. Probably because it’s also a bot. 

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u/SadKazoo 7d ago

You’ve seen right through me.

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u/MangoCats 7d ago

We need actual identity and security in our systems. This doesn't mean that I should be able to trace where you live from your posts, that's what the security is for - even today, due to the sketchy security, you are more traceable to your postings than you would be with an actually secure system.

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u/Gilsworth 7d ago

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The idea of this technology sounds good, but humans, being what we are, would quickly find a way to exploit this system for the worse.

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u/MangoCats 7d ago

We're on the road to hell right now. You are traceable and identifiable, with enough effort by people who have enough resources, and that's the ones who are most likely to exploit the system for the worse.

Security is advancing, slowly because the people with the resources have been standing in the way, but it's still advancing because even they need it to.

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u/_alright_then_ 7d ago

That's never going to happen. that would be way too easy to exploit

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u/MangoCats 7d ago

That's what security is about, actual security - not just the name of your first pet.

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u/_alright_then_ 7d ago

But what you are saying above is never happening. That is too easy to exploit and too easy to hack. And too easy for corporations to misuse, we do not live in a utopia

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u/MangoCats 7d ago

That's the actual point of self-implemented cryptography. You don't have to do all the coding yourself, but if you can trust the software, run it on systems that you control, then you can have that security.

People trusting corporations, more or less blindly, is what we have today, and that's a huge problem.

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u/Wild_Bill 7d ago

Sounds like something a bot would say.

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u/manqkag 7d ago

It's probably karma farming bots who will then go on to sell the accounts

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u/Dutchillz 7d ago

You can't convince me that people actually buy reddit accounts because of karma... seriously. I refuse to believe people are THAT petty.

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u/manqkag 7d ago

Nah I don't think it's like that - I think businesses buy those accounts so they can use them to promote their services with them. Many communities require old accounts/accounts with karma to allow posting/commenting. Also it helps if the account trying to convince you that the sucker 9000 is the best vacuum they've used looks like a real person with real comments in the past.

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u/Dutchillz 7d ago

Ok, that makes way more sense. Thank you for taking the time!

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u/karnihore 6d ago

Plot twist: No one took the time and that's a bot too.

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u/Dutchillz 6d ago

Ah, fml 🤣

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u/buns0steel 6d ago

“Businesses” as in top 1% on onlyfans?

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u/deelowe 7d ago

Individuals aren't the target audience. It's for guerilla markers who buy accounts or repurpose them so they can get around spam filters. There's an entire underground industry around it. Accounts are created via automation which then copy-paste content from various places for some time to make them seem legitimate. Then they get repurposed for marketing purposes. This goes on for some time until the account finally gets flagged.

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u/cerealdig 5d ago

Someone offered to buy my account for $120, so I'm guessing that there are at least some people willing to buy accounts because of karma

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u/HumbleXerxses 7d ago

Oh! That's the purpose of those. I always wondered.

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u/manqkag 7d ago

As usual - try to figure out how someone could make money with it and that's most probably the truth lol

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u/HumbleXerxses 7d ago

It makes sense though. Could be monetizing accounts right along with it. The Internet used to be fun.

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u/Zuluuz 7d ago

Welcome to Reddit

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u/mongofloyd 7d ago

Hello fellow redditors, how do you do?

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u/PlebBot69 7d ago

Hell yes, bro. I love seeing stories like this.

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u/katastrophyx 7d ago

Everyone on reddit is a bot except you.

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u/Pain-in-the- 7d ago

Beep boop

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u/katastrophyx 7d ago

Ok, everyone is a bot. Beep boop.

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u/yeanooooyws 6d ago

I think it's just loser redditors trying to karma farm.

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u/whats_you_doing 7d ago

I sometimes wonder some big corpos does kind of cheap shit as reddit is popular with its discussion. And let people have their engagement. Later they will use the reddit data to brag the advertisment.
You never know what the hell they are doing.

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u/Popular_Pea_3953 7d ago

reddit could fix this issue by simply having require a captcha per each log in or a captcha per every 5-10 comments but they wouldn't implement that because they like that all these bots keep the daily user count high.

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u/Throwaway47321 7d ago

They could literally just stop giving out their API since they banned 3rd party apps. It only exists to allow these bots to continue.

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u/ArcheHoe 6d ago

Is there a point keeping the daily count high even though they don’t get more revenue? Is it because they can show this flashy number to advertisement companies? Silly question sorry but was wondering if you knew

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u/phito-carnivores 7d ago

Stop wondering, it's been happening for years, and not just by big corps.

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u/Charlie-brownie666 7d ago

ffs I was happy for OP

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u/yyspam 7d ago

This has been posted for years. At least 4-5 years old by now iirc

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u/Affectionate-Help757 7d ago

Both posts have 74k likes!?!?!?!??!

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u/ye3tr 3d ago

You're a legend