A minimum amount of karma is required to start threads in many communities. I used to be subscribed to a community that didn’t have automated bot detection or a very active moderator and was being hit by bots posting ads to scam merchandise websites multiple times a day. Here’s what I observed.

These posts had a few dozen quick upvotes over the first few minutes of being posted along with a few comments from other bots shilling the ad after being posted. These shilling comments also received a bunch of initial upvotes as well, and then all slowly got a trickle of downvotes by real humans after. Real humans also commented to denounce the scam ads a few minutes later, some of which were also receiving a sudden spike of downvotes from bot accounts. The bots would eventually get reported and banned (only from the subreddit because Reddit themselves didn’t do crap about bots), and then this would repeat multiple times a day.

I’ve checked their post history and all of these bots were “dormant” and were farming karma by reposting content and copying comments in other subs and imitating human behaviour for the better part of a year before being activated and used to post ads.

This was only from a scammy merch selling website in a relatively small community and it employed a sophisticated network of thousands of rolling bot accounts, probably more than the number of subscribers the subreddit had. There are countless other bot operations on Reddit for advertising, scamming, astroturfing and propaganda purposes that might be even more sophisticated and difficult to detect.

I’ve also seen my own original content being reposted by a bot farming karma in another subreddit and I was shadow banned for complaining about it while the bot was allowed to do its thing where it went on using its karma to post propaganda.This is when I quit Reddit and never looked back at this cesspool of a site.

And all that was before AI text generation was viable. I don’t know if the majority of Reddit is bot accounts, but the number of bots on it is staggering.

Russian propaganda had its way to them

• “$10”
• “But the sign said $5”
• “Then why did you ask?”

If by “value” you mean income it isn’t even tied to individual productivity. It’s tied to how much power or leverage you have to demand more.

It reminds me of that scene in The Boys where Homelander forces The Deep eat his octopus friend to torture him, force him to debase himself and force loyalty. True sociopathic behavior.

Almost every cloud based device I’ve ever owned ended up either putting an increasing number of basic features that were originally free behind a subscription paywall or simply turned itself into a brick when it stopped being supported.

So that’s what Trump meant by “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

He knows damn well that should he ever attempts to “annihilate” either the only thing that will change is that South Korea will become an island.

Subscription-based hardware business models, or anything that is cloud-based have a strong tendency to do this. They sucker you into buying their hardware with rock bottom prices and reasonable subscription fees and slowly they increase the prices and put more and more features and functionalities behind increasing paywalls.

Never buy anything that you don’t fully own after paying for it.

Bill Gate²

Well, if you don’t sleep you could work all of those 70 hours under 3 days

Change the small balloon for an “80” and the average will be correct.

Trump turned the party into a cult with himself at the center. He convinced them through constant disinformation and gaslighting that America is doomed unless he is re-elected as the “savior” and that any legal action taken against him is part of a conspiracy to stop him from “saving America”. His supporters are thoroughly brainwashed and will completely disregard the plethora of evidence of the contrary.

The issue was resolved in a software update. I recently got a Pixel 7 and didn’t even know about the existence of a fingerprint scanner issue until I came to this thread. It works perfectly fine now regardless of lighting conditions.

The fingerprint scanner issue has been resolved with an update. I recently bought a Pixel 7 and am surprised to hear about a fingerprint scanner issue. It is working just fine now regardless of lighting conditions.

Don’t hold back from getting a good deal on the Pixel 7 because of the fingerprint scanner issue. It has been resolved with a software update since then. I have a Pixel 7 and the fingerprint scanner works just fine regardless of lighting conditions.

I have a Pixel 7 and it works in the dark just fine. I feel like @techgearwhips might have gotten a defective phone.

Edit: After a quick search it appears that Google fixed it with a software update.

I have a Pixel 7 that runs GrapheneOS and don’t have any of the fingerprint scanner issues you described. I don’t even understand how using it in the dark could make a difference since a circular portion of the screen under your finger lights up at maximum brightness when it is scanning your fingerprint. The only issue that I have is that sometimes a piece of dead skin peels off of my thumb or I wore a glove in the heat making my skin a little pruney which makes the scanner unable to read my fingerprint right. But that was a problem with my old Moto phone as well.

Edit: After making some research it appears that Google fixed the fingerprint scanner issue with a software update.

I am content with good enough.