Absolutely. For one thing, it will not be tolerated if they wear a tan suit.

I don't care what their race or sex is. I'm concerned about their age, religion, and views on war crimes and slavery.

We know Obama did war crimes because he told us about them. That's how brazen the servants of the MIC have become. (inb4 I get accused of racism this time: We know Trump does more drone strikes without due process than Obama did, because until Trump rescinded Obama's EO on reporting of such strikes, he was doing four times as many of them.)

We The People? Not most of us. TPTB? Yes, they sure do. High unemployment is just the thing when you want people to volunteer to be cannon fodder for your endless war.

LOTR is about freedom vs oppression, had not just strong but powerful female characters from the get-go, and the morals are about ordinary people defeating evil by being true to their fellowship. It's woke AF from start to finish.

They only left him out, they did much worse to Faramir.

Tom Bombadil was important to the books, to give a certain feeling. But not so much to the movies, which felt epic enough without him.

The mods don't block a lot of the box because they want the engagement to grow there forums. Reddit doesn't mind the bot engagement either the problem they're having is that it's become so obvious that it's infecting their data sets and their advertisers can't pretend anymore that the leads they're getting are worthwhile. So they have to clean things up a bit or their business model is at risk

Modern bots can get past most captcha unless it's a huge pain in the ass that starts to impact users.

Reddit has a problem where it adds too much friction it loses users because it's not as useful as site as Facebook.

I'm an introvert so Facebook isn't my thing but people I know who are extraverts or just want to find hobbyists with the same niche hobbies make a lot of use of Facebook to do that. And it does work for that purpose.

But Reddit doesn't have any of that and the bots have kind of made the discussions almost useless.

Honestly I would love the bot spam to go away. Because a lot of the political forums require accounts with high karma and long tenure non-political forums get really low effort shit posts like hey remember this game from your childhood isn't it great upvote me!

So it kind of wrecks any meaningful discussion or nerding out.

The trouble is all that is good for engagement so nobody really wants to take it out completely. What Reddit really wants is to be able to tell the bots from the real people so that they can continue to sell the data the real people generate and advertise to them

Let me guess you passed the test right? Well I guess that just proves how much smarter you are than I am...

And where are we going in this handbasket?

I would assume it's very high, but you could do it in a way that would be less likely to trip the detectors by adding randomness and doing it over a long period. If one starts now, one probably has plenty of time to get it done.

The word "actually" is doing a lot of heavy lifting it's not qualified for there.

Because the people calling the shots hate "other" humans.

There's a major problem with the social media sites that there is so much bot traffic and it is getting so sophisticated that it's making its way into their main data sets and advertisements. It's becoming too obvious to the advertisers and data brokers that the data is being filled with bot traffic.

If this continues sites like Facebook and Reddit won't have dated sell or advertising that they can even pretend it's worthwhile.

This is why you see all those age verification laws. They are heavily pushed by Facebook because Facebook needs to know who you are. In the past they could do this pretty easily but with modern it deep fakes it's becoming very difficult. Age verification works around that letting them track you perfectly. Also think of the children.

Reddit isn't popular enough or useful enough that they can get people in Mass to verify their IDs. They know this and because of it they will try their best to limit the amount of push they do at least until mandatory age verification is everywhere.

Even then that's probably going to be bad for them because readdit again isn't all that interesting or useful so they're bound to lose users.

We have verified that the moderators here are less competent than a low-end LLM