From the article:
A volunteer-made project that fights bots on Reddit is shutting down. BotDefense, a tool that helps fight bots in more than 3,600 subreddits and has nearly 150,000 accounts on its bans list, will be going away.
As for why: The community of users and moderators submitting accounts to us depend on Pushshift, the API, and third-party apps. And we would be deluding ourselves if we believed any assurances from Reddit given the track record of broken promises. Investing further resources into Reddit as a platform presents significant risks, and it’s safer to allocate one’s time, energy, and passions elsewhere.
More bots on Reddit? Isn’t this what spez was going for?
As long as he can fool advertisers about activity
tfw the most reddit addicted city is an AWS datacenter
Better than Eglin airforce base (kinda)
I think he looked at /r/subredditsimulator and decided it was something to be taken seriously.
that was one of my favorite subs ever
wish the creator would have let it run for longer