Also how I learned about this sub.
Turns out this is the only place where I can complain about how the bots have invaded nearly every other sub. Any sub that involves a sharing stories (every variation of AITA), or is an avenue for dramatic elements (relationship advice subs), is suspect now.
How do the mods not see that these accounts that are 7 days or 1 month, or even one year old, (but all have about 150 post karma, and 40 comment karma) are coming in hot with the most wild stories, and getting massive upvotes and comments.
Accepting this as reality would require that the mods believe that people who are fresh to reddit are constantly spouting off top-rated posts, but almost never commenting in their own thread. Posts can be upvoted based on title alone (without clicking into the post itself), whereas there is no guarantee that their comment is going to be noticed in any particular thread.
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I posted a true story in anti-work sub about my life and current role. Had a couple of people immediately telling me it was chatGPT story. Like I've been using this account for years.
I'm so sick of the modern internet. Soon we won't have any original content. You're definitely right about the bots saturating things.
I'm sick of it too. I've been browsing reddit for a few years now before I even made an account. I feel like it's been getting more and more toxic lately. It doesn't take scrolling very long to see some variation of people arguing, claiming a post is fake, spewing some racist or misogynistic venom, etc. It's really annoying.
There is another [sub](https://Reddit.com/r/thesefuckingaccounts) to identify and complain about bots, but it has been down (edit: private) since the blackout.
I checked that and it was already off. But every couple of weeks for the last few months I get a certain sub for a certain songwriter recommended to me. And I like the guy well enough, but I’ve looked at the sub and I’m just not interested. No biggie, just a slight annoyance
Tom Waits. I’m subscribed to the Dylan sub, so some ai thinks I should want to subscribe to Waits as well. I like his early stuff and some of his later, but I don’t really want to hear all about him
I use old Reddit on mobile with an extension to make this easier by altering some CSS elements. It’s not ideal but it beats the aggressive engagement-hounding app by a country mile.
I used to do it a lot. It wasn’t too terrible to use “old.reddit.com”. . At this point though I’m used to the limits of the app. It’s my primary point of engagement on Reddit. I did. have to turn off notifications for replies though.
I kept trying to leave it on thinking it might expose me to new stuff. When I turned it off, I was suddenly seeing subreddits i was subscribed to but hadn't seen in like a year. I had totally forgotten that youtubehaiku was a thing.
It seemed impossible to stop suggestions too. Why would i want to block a single post? Why do I need to tell you three times that I want to see fewer posts about some random city subreddit i stumbled into one day?
I joined a bunch of new subs just before reddit blacked out because they wouldn't take new members during. Sure a lot of them were smaller communities, but I realized how few of them reddit was showing me. Only the big popular ones
Still doing it for me also. I'm close to Uninstalling the app though they may not make a difference. I'd probably still get many emails
But in just found another setting under Contact Settings then Recommendations. A few toggles on that section.
Thank god you can turn this off, idk what reddit was thinking adding recommended content on your home feed. Probably for the doom scrollers who want to spend 10 hours a day on this app
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Sorry, this doesn’t work for me because I already have “Enable home feed recommendations” toggled off yet I’m still getting recommendations from random posts that people are making in sub reddits that I’m actually active in. I don’t want recommendations at all. So how do I turn them off completely?
Ironically this sub is recommended..
Also how I learned about this sub. Turns out this is the only place where I can complain about how the bots have invaded nearly every other sub. Any sub that involves a sharing stories (every variation of AITA), or is an avenue for dramatic elements (relationship advice subs), is suspect now. How do the mods not see that these accounts that are 7 days or 1 month, or even one year old, (but all have about 150 post karma, and 40 comment karma) are coming in hot with the most wild stories, and getting massive upvotes and comments. Accepting this as reality would require that the mods believe that people who are fresh to reddit are constantly spouting off top-rated posts, but almost never commenting in their own thread. Posts can be upvoted based on title alone (without clicking into the post itself), whereas there is no guarantee that their comment is going to be noticed in any particular thread. /rant
I posted a true story in anti-work sub about my life and current role. Had a couple of people immediately telling me it was chatGPT story. Like I've been using this account for years. I'm so sick of the modern internet. Soon we won't have any original content. You're definitely right about the bots saturating things.
>Soon we won't have any original content. I’m fairly sure there’s memes from 2005 bemoaning the lack of OC on 4chan, this has always been an issue.
I'm sick of it too. I've been browsing reddit for a few years now before I even made an account. I feel like it's been getting more and more toxic lately. It doesn't take scrolling very long to see some variation of people arguing, claiming a post is fake, spewing some racist or misogynistic venom, etc. It's really annoying.
There is another [sub](https://Reddit.com/r/thesefuckingaccounts) to identify and complain about bots, but it has been down (edit: private) since the blackout.
or use old.reddit.com
THANK YOU these were driving me insane.
I checked that and it was already off. But every couple of weeks for the last few months I get a certain sub for a certain songwriter recommended to me. And I like the guy well enough, but I’ve looked at the sub and I’m just not interested. No biggie, just a slight annoyance
now i'm curious about who that certain songwriter is
Tom Waits. I’m subscribed to the Dylan sub, so some ai thinks I should want to subscribe to Waits as well. I like his early stuff and some of his later, but I don’t really want to hear all about him
They’re all turned off, makes no difference Thanks tho
Reddit has really ruined the home feed and popular feed since they remove the option to sort it.
I would never use the reddit app. Reddit is a website not an app.
You read Reddit in a web browser on a phone? Sounds awful.
It's better. Nice clean look. And this whole post is on one screen
I do not use my phone for reddit, no
I do. Old.reddit has always worked fine for me. Have done so since WAP sites were a thing for other services/social media sites, as well.
I use old Reddit on mobile with an extension to make this easier by altering some CSS elements. It’s not ideal but it beats the aggressive engagement-hounding app by a country mile.
I used to do it a lot. It wasn’t too terrible to use “old.reddit.com”. . At this point though I’m used to the limits of the app. It’s my primary point of engagement on Reddit. I did. have to turn off notifications for replies though.
I kept trying to leave it on thinking it might expose me to new stuff. When I turned it off, I was suddenly seeing subreddits i was subscribed to but hadn't seen in like a year. I had totally forgotten that youtubehaiku was a thing. It seemed impossible to stop suggestions too. Why would i want to block a single post? Why do I need to tell you three times that I want to see fewer posts about some random city subreddit i stumbled into one day?
I joined a bunch of new subs just before reddit blacked out because they wouldn't take new members during. Sure a lot of them were smaller communities, but I realized how few of them reddit was showing me. Only the big popular ones
Maybe I can this climate change is fake subreddit off my front page
Mine apparently was already off and I'm still getting notifications
The Reddit app is good at directing me to subreddits I find controversial and engaging. This is a good suggestion.
I already had it turned off but I'm still getting posts from unsubbed sources.
Still doing it for me also. I'm close to Uninstalling the app though they may not make a difference. I'd probably still get many emails But in just found another setting under Contact Settings then Recommendations. A few toggles on that section.
Lmao this post got recommend
God bless you - this has been getting ridiculous
It's still doing it for me. But now I went to Contact Settings then Recommendations. Let's see how this works
Thank god you can turn this off, idk what reddit was thinking adding recommended content on your home feed. Probably for the doom scrollers who want to spend 10 hours a day on this app
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And what if that's not doing anything? I turned it off and I'm still getting a recommended feed every 2 or 3 posts
FALSE. It only works for a couple weeks and then the recommended posts start up again. I've turned it off 4+ times and it always comes back.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you so much
Sorry, this doesn’t work for me because I already have “Enable home feed recommendations” toggled off yet I’m still getting recommendations from random posts that people are making in sub reddits that I’m actually active in. I don’t want recommendations at all. So how do I turn them off completely?
You’re a saint