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Reddit will probably appreciate the extra traffic bots will create
Until that IPO happens and investors want an audit of bot activity vs daily active users and then it all goes south from there.
What's this "from there"? It's already heading south and they haven't even had the IPO yet.
Maybe, maybe not. Advertisers are definitely going to want to know how many of their impressions are actual people and how many are bots.
I fear your right, seems the kind of scummy I’ma god-complex type thing spez would do