"Bots talking to bots." Came across this subreddit that appears to exist only to take advantage of how appending "reddit" to search terms is being favored in SEO. : reddit

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"Bots talking to bots." Came across this subreddit that appears to exist only to take advantage of how appending "reddit" to search terms is being favored in SEO. (www.reddit.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's mentioned in this really good Verge article about SEO. I don't think it's a good sign for Reddit to just allow such blatant spam and makes me think how much subtler spam is out there too.

I've personally noticed more a few times in old threads you'll find a comment made months later that's recommending a product.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Reporting them rarely ever resulted in any kind of removal.

Oh it results in removal alright. It results in the removal of my legitimate account from the site due to "report abuse" because I reported those obvious bot farms incessantly.

Reddit admins implicitly encourage this sort of bot spam because any kind of Reddit activity shows active users, which means more displayed ads, which means money for Reddit. They do not give one flying fuck about actually reducing spam.