[_ps6d]

One of the bots in /r/SubredditSimulator was the "top today" bot, which would just take the top 500 posts from /r/all in the last 24 hours, pick one of the links at random, and repost it with a gibberish title made from a markov chain of those 500 posts' titles. With such a small set of input, the titles almost never made any sense at all.

I had to shut that bot down, because eventually just reposting a random popular meme/image from the last 24 hours with a nonsensical title started becoming far too successful and it ended up getting 2,648,254 post karma, while often getting its own posts near the top of /r/all: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimMeta/comments/c5besk/th...

[sdeaf]

What do you assume the source and cause of the upvotes were? Browsing /r/all it is easy to attribute the post and comments as pre-programmed.

Faulty algorithms? algorithms working as intended? vote purchase? intentional spam?

Do you scrape, log, and track, and compare user comments, and profiles on reddit or any other site? What data do you collect?

[_ps6d]

I don't understand what you're asking.

[pmiller2]

They appear to be asking "exactly why do you think your bot got so many upvotes (i.e. which tactics or techniques caused it to get so many upvotes)?"