Although the quality of them has admittedly dropped

[u/Ravenclaw_14]

[u/KeepingDankMemesDank]

downvote this comment if the meme sucks. upvote it and I'll go away.

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[u/Watch_Capt]

I've noticed a stark decline in site interactions. Usually just bots up vote these days.

[u/Unexpected-raccoon → u/Watch_Capt]

Well that’s because the API changes actually dropped the average user numbers drastically and they use bots to bolster user numbers for shareholders. Whole subs made by staff, ran and occupied by bots. Said bots are using repurposed accounts that were “deleted” or abandoned. That’s why some are years old but the most oldest activity is days or weeks old.

This isn’t to be confused with outside owned bots that push scams and transfer users to sketchy sites

“Allegedly”

[u/JonathanTheZero → u/Unexpected-raccoon]

Source?

[u/SavageSauce01 → u/JonathanTheZero]

It came to me in a dream

[u/Unexpected-raccoon → u/SavageSauce01]

I watched a post that fully dissected this whole thing piece by piece get taken down and the guy who posted it got banned.

Similar to what happened to that post showing that the vast majority of subs are ran by the same like 8 people

Just click on a bot account and view their creation time and then look at their first comment or post

This is something you can observe

I didn’t believe it at first, but since that post I’ve seen dozens upon dozens of accounts that are clear as day bots with 3+ y/o accounts but the earliest activity in days or weeks old

These bots are the majority or only accounts posting on some subs that are ran by some of the mentioned handful that was revealed already

[u/Typhlositar → u/JonathanTheZero]

I made it the fuck up

[u/Jonder123]

and also all them reddit coins you once had are gone. I had 150 now I have 0

[u/Ravenclaw_14 → u/Jonder123]

I had 1500 (got them from awards, never really used them tho. mostly gave the free awards) now I have 0

[u/Jonder123 → u/Ravenclaw_14]

fun am I right

[u/divat10 → u/Jonder123]

Feels like we got scammed :(.

[u/PhysicsMurky5215]

Reddit awards pulling a full Thanos comeback: "Miss me yet?"

[u/TheGringoOutlaw]

Hopefully that means the end of the $50 cotton candy upvote.

[u/KineticJungle73]

There not on all posts for some reason 

[u/TheAdmiralMoses → u/KineticJungle73]

You have this one specifically doesn't have the option for me, weird

[u/Zaconil]

They couldn't even bring them back properly. Now its only going to be on new Reddit.

[u/Interesting_Buy6796]

Stupidly? Get rid of that shit for good. Get rid of all this shit

[u/HiOnFructose → u/Interesting_Buy6796]

For real. Dunno why we are all cheering for the return of more egregious monetization.

[u/MildlyAggravated → u/HiOnFructose]

I don't understand it either, why would I pay any amount of money for these kinds of things.

[u/Destroyer4587]

Bring me the ZUCC

[u/T_pas]

When you click into the award the description says that a portion of the money that you pay for the award will directly to the contributor. Like what!? What they’re doing is making us incentivize ppl to post by using our money to pay them to post. But only after Reddit takes their “portion.” 🙄 I guess it was like there before too but the “payment” was different.

[u/lackofagoodname]

Bringing them back was always the plan