<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>TotoHorner</author><text>&amp;gt; We run text analysis on comments and bot detection on popular posts&lt;p&gt;Can you give an overview of how your bot detection works?&lt;p&gt;I assume you don&amp;#x27;t have any proprietary information?&lt;p&gt;Are you solely using the text features of the comment to tell if it was posted by a bot?&lt;p&gt;Thanks.</text><parent_chain><item><author>imnotreallynew</author><text>I run a social media marketing service; we stream all reddit content (~110 posts&amp;#x2F;comments per second). We run text analysis on comments and bot detection on popular posts.&lt;p&gt;Most people don’t understand how many bots are influencing public discourse on reddit. It’s really concerning, particular that the “real” users on reddit tend to be young and impressionable.</text></item><item><author>unsupp0rted</author><text>Reddit is weirdly overflowing with pro Ukraine propaganda and people don&amp;#x27;t seem to notice.&lt;p&gt;Any even &lt;i&gt;neutral&lt;/i&gt; story about Russia brings out vitriol about how obvious Russia&amp;#x27;s propaganda is.&lt;p&gt;But somehow they miss the same effect when the story is pro-Ukraine, no matter who the sources are, how unlikely the content is to be true, etc.&lt;p&gt;This was to be expected in the first months of the war, but after so many months of a steady diet of propaganda that doesn&amp;#x27;t turn out to be true, somehow Redditors still take it at face value.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine</title><url>https://theprint.in/tech/60-80-of-twitter-accounts-posting-on-russia-ukraine-war-bots-90-pro-ukraine-finds-new-study/1114878/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stazz1</author><text>fake activity is how reddit got to threshold growth, the trend continues :P</text><parent_chain><item><author>imnotreallynew</author><text>I run a social media marketing service; we stream all reddit content (~110 posts&amp;#x2F;comments per second). We run text analysis on comments and bot detection on popular posts.&lt;p&gt;Most people don’t understand how many bots are influencing public discourse on reddit. It’s really concerning, particular that the “real” users on reddit tend to be young and impressionable.</text></item><item><author>unsupp0rted</author><text>Reddit is weirdly overflowing with pro Ukraine propaganda and people don&amp;#x27;t seem to notice.&lt;p&gt;Any even &lt;i&gt;neutral&lt;/i&gt; story about Russia brings out vitriol about how obvious Russia&amp;#x27;s propaganda is.&lt;p&gt;But somehow they miss the same effect when the story is pro-Ukraine, no matter who the sources are, how unlikely the content is to be true, etc.&lt;p&gt;This was to be expected in the first months of the war, but after so many months of a steady diet of propaganda that doesn&amp;#x27;t turn out to be true, somehow Redditors still take it at face value.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine</title><url>https://theprint.in/tech/60-80-of-twitter-accounts-posting-on-russia-ukraine-war-bots-90-pro-ukraine-finds-new-study/1114878/</url></story>