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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There's a way to look at the top Karma users on Reddit. Most of them are either bots, or corporate account. There's a Marvel one that posts movie stuff, and some Turbo something or other for gaming. They don't comment, they just post what their corporate overlords want you to see, and they probably have bots that push their content to the top. They just aggregate popular sites, though, driving people into the ads.

When I was on Reddit, going to that leaderboard to block people was my first stop. Though, I do think there are a few that are interesting, even bots — like the haiku one is amusing. It doesn't always get it right, but it's fun to see it try. Then there's a guy — pretty sure it's a person, at least — who turns posts into poems. Not quite the same. Got a weird name. Regular Redditors know who they are. "Something for your something", I think. I don't block the fun ones. Just the corporate trash.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, Poem for your Sprog. I remember that one. Users like that are one of the few things I miss about Reddit.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Poem for your sprog

I've seen someone who took that username here in Lemmy, but that could be anyone, no guarantee that it was the same guy/gal on reddit

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Poem for your sprog. I had no problem with the novelty accounts, and even the bot accounts there were clearly just some dev with a quirky sense of humor. Though those got hate from the anti bot purists, for whatever stupid reason.

It’s the corporate, vote manipulating, spam, Russian propaganda etc bots that piss me off. And those are much more subtle and harder to detect.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And the CEO. And the mods.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sprog, that was it. Yeah. What's a sprog, anyway? It's not flagged as misspelled. Yeah, I don't like AIs that steal content, but funny jokes are fine. Novelty accounts are fine. There were a few people who claimed to be famous people. Maybe they were those people. I never cared. They weren't anything special to me. I just treated them like novelty accounts, same as anyone else really.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

We have "Margot Robbie" and "Nicole!"

[–] hootmcgoot@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Poem_for_your_sprog

There are some things i miss about that site.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago

Poem_for_your_sprog

https://old.reddit.com/user/Poem_for_your_sprog/

That account appears to have been inactive for the past seven months.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 1 day ago

Poem for your sprog, right? Not been on reddit for a while, but encountering a post from that guy was generally a fun moment.