What is going on with this?
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Bot posts.
[https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp?_sm_au_=iVVDMg0TSmrMV6Dm](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp?_sm_au_=iVVDMg0TSmrMV6Dm)
%3A is a colon ( : )
%20 is a “space” (as in press spacebar)
I’d say for any top 1,000 subs of reddit that at least 50% of posts are made by bots and anywhere from 20-40% of comments are bots/AI/mining.
Youll notice that a third of all posts gets removed like a day or 2 after post is made and comments are entered. Reddit is mostly a massive data-mining and AI-training sandbox.
All of the hyper emotional stories “Am I the Asshole?!~?!?” type posts are to mine data on how humans respond to the most emotional of topics.
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