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Well, duh. That just means that 93-84% of Redditors are bots. Bots didn't know there was a shutdown, so those bots kept slamming reddit. So with that data I now can assume Reddit was only 7-16% human.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
Unfortunately, such detection methods are often completely unreliable. It might be able to detect obvious cases, but it's no good at detecting the difference between smarter bots and people.
That's... Eerily scary