They don’t care to a certain extent. But there is a threshold that if you get too many bots, companies using your platform to advertise will notice a fall in sales. And if sales drop on your platform, the money stops. Because bots don’t buy things, real humans do.
What is the threshold? I don’t know, I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
Reddit’s advertising clients would see that the clickthrough rate is shit. Which dictates the price that they are willing to pay for the advertisement.
Have you ever clicked on a reddit ad? Many users have shit stats, and if that was used for detecting bots, then bots would click ads, reddit would lose trust, and that would damage them even more
Money, Reddit makes money by selling advertising.
They don’t care if it’s quality or not, more comments/posts equal more money. Capitalism 101.
They don’t care to a certain extent. But there is a threshold that if you get too many bots, companies using your platform to advertise will notice a fall in sales. And if sales drop on your platform, the money stops. Because bots don’t buy things, real humans do.
What is the threshold? I don’t know, I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
Reddit’s advertising clients would see that the clickthrough rate is shit. Which dictates the price that they are willing to pay for the advertisement.
Have you ever clicked on a reddit ad? Many users have shit stats, and if that was used for detecting bots, then bots would click ads, reddit would lose trust, and that would damage them even more
They’re not making money off these bots though.