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Is this a restriction on bot activity? I guess it would make sense for non-malicious bots using the API, but there's nothing stopping writing a malicious bot just using the website scraping and automation to post anywhere. At least I never had to fill out a captcha, but there's possible there are measure against these kind of bots as well.
Depends on the bot and its target subs. Some subreddits are set up to restrict posting below a certain karma line, so bots aimed at those will do stuff like posting to their own profile—to get around, say, a moderation tool that'll auto-ban accounts that post in "free karma subreddits"—to build up the needed karma to post wherever. Those are the ones I assume @Kay_Angel is thinking of
But, a bot that's aimed at a less restrictive community wouldn't need to jump through the hoops so would work a lot more directly.