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by Melatonic 1523 days ago
I don't think it was related to that at all - I think it was just around that time that Reddit also started to really become more mainstream popular. Anytime a forum or sub forum grows in size you end up with a lot more crap to sift through. And with greater number of users also of course comes greater numbers of bots / fake / shill accounts as well.