Mods here respond to reports a lot better than mods on reddit, from personal experience. When a bot is found and reported on here, it usually takes less than a day for the bot comment/post to be removed and the account banned from the community.

On reddit, mods of larger subs typically don’t do anything at all and all you can do is encourage others to report the comment to get it to reach the report threshold to get an automatic removal.

But in fact you can even get banned from subreddits for pointing out obvious bots. This happened to me on r/democraticsocialism when I used to use the platform. I got perm banned for “brigading” and when trying to present evidence to them via modmail the only response I got was a 28-day mute.

I understand the only reason the bots aren’t as bad here is because there’s not much of an audience and it will get worse as the platform grows. The bots don’t necessarily need a karma score system to be successful, they just need humans to manipulate.

I’m not sure if there’s even a good solution to mitigate them besides old fashioned catch and report. I’m just enjoying it here while I can without the excessive amount of bots that I had to wade through on reddit…