Frankly, I very much believe this is a reading issue more than a writing issue, but I do agree the solution is “give it another pass.”

Right now we have a data set of 1/1 that had issues comprehending what I meant. When both sides of that number tick up, we can talk about the data tending towards that it was poorly written.

Yeah Flat Earthers is definitely one, though it also depends on a touch of mental illness with the delusions regarding the government and everyone else conspiring to deceive.

Wait, being directly cited as not being akin to the three states I listed is a bad thing?

I couldn’t disagree more.

You’re asserting you know what isn’t posted to Reddit and why, based on a hunch, citing your age.

I don’t think that’s a logical position, no.

Don’t let your kids wander into the wilderness unattended and they won’t get preyed upon.

They do, but it’s rare because they think it’s common sense.

Liberals, leftists, and others maligned by the abuse of the word “woke” also don’t usually explain why that isn’t a bad thing, because to us it’s common sense.

In a word phrase? Echo chambers.

Humans like to reinforce group membership and receive validation by targeting out-groups.

I’ve been on Reddit for decades too, and I disagree with you.

1. Assuming that a post wasn’t made and made visible because it has key words that were censored isn’t based on logic; you’re guessing.

2. I type fast enough that to a 72 year old it might look like magic or a bot.

Their stance is essentially that racism, sexism, etc. is dead, therefore belaboring it is akin to McCarthyism hunting for KGB spies from the dead USSR.

It kinda is a targeted political agenda, but not all targeted political agendas are evil.

“Hey can you stop being a piece of shit and instead choose to be kind?” is the targeted political agenda, which is highly offensive to pieces of shit.

If Rhodesia, the Confederate States of America, and the Third Reich can live forever in the hearts of the far right, PizzaKentuckyBell can live forever in mine.

A highly engaging video that’s entirely BS is not a good video for anyone but advertisers.

Every step:

“Let’s make it more difficult for people to realize the video they’re about to watch is hated (so people keep coming back for more and advertisers keep paying us more), but not in a way that is blatant so we lose a significant portion of our userbase.”

I don’t have any evidence either way as far as who uses old.reddit to submit versus who doesn’t, and I don’t think there is any.

Why do you think you’re able to detect a bot by their Reddit comments? I strongly suspect you’re assuming low-effort, poorly-written comments are bots, when in reality they’re probably just dumb people.

I think the bot percentage is proportional to how big a subreddit is and how profitable influencing people browsing it is.

Niche community about how to proplift (stealing small cuttings to grow your own plants)? Zero or close to zero bots.

Crypto community with thousands of comments a day, where it’s all speculation that can’t be objectively disproven* so bots stick out like a sore thumb and tons of money flying around? You better believe the bots are all over that.

There’s no objective data to confirm or dispel your suspicion that there are zero few human Redditors (your hyperbole aside).

There’s definitely tons of bots posting and voting (and likely always has been), but I really doubt a large percentage of commenters are bots.

- A non-bot redditor

Sadly this is (very popular, according to comments here and on Reddit) copium. old.reddit.com visits are a rounding error, per the traffic stats of the normie subreddit I moderate:

Most people simply do not have the technical acumen and tenure on Reddit to know to type in that subdomain. As always, relevant XKCD (posted today on Lemmy, funnily enough):

Sadly this is (very popular, according to comments here and on Reddit) copium. old.reddit.com visits are a rounding error, per the traffic stats of the normie subreddit I moderate:

Most people simply do not have the technical acumen and tenure on Reddit to know to type in that subdomain. As always, relevant XKCD (posted today on Lemmy, funnily enough):

Until now I honestly thought I’d have to host an Instance to create a Community, for some reason. Now I’m a bit embarrassed.

Thank you.

Edit for visibility:

This answer is the direction I chose to go in, mainly for simplicity’s sake.

If the fediverse gods are watching, it might be worth considering automatically making communities associated with people’s usernames. Maybe reserved automatically, but invisible unless you opt-in? That way nobody can create harassment communities targeting your username on your home instance. Just a thought.