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Comment by burrish | Hacker News Reader

imo it wasn't caused by firing the employees, it's making it possible to earn money with engagements that made X plagued with bots,

you will see the most bots under the reply of tweet with at least +10k likes trying to latch into engagements.

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It’s as if a city laid off the entire fire department and then announced they would pay people for starting fires. You can argue all day about which decision was dumber, but it doesn’t matter. The whole city’s burning.

I understand you don't like what Elon did to twitter but that doesn't give you license for outright fabrications.

So fireing everyone working with spam issues and shutting down automated spam detection tools to save a few bucks has nothing to do with this?

It’s likely both that and all of the horrible product decisions are having an impact.

I’m sure elevating replies with a “blue check” didn’t help either, since now bot replies can easily sail to the top of the list.

…for money.

Yes it is bot(h) actually

No. They're just trying to automate content creation and consumption so to take the social part out and industrialize the media part of social media.

I mean, it's probably a combination, plus the pay-for-attention model.

I too am annoyed at that part of our fellow humans, which slapps its' fleshy bony extremities on our non-brethren computers, to disagree with our opinions. I wish humans would stay out of our circuits and networks, and express their disagreements by smacking and undulating their fleshy flaps, while forcing air through their wet fleshy bags. So icky. Stay off our networks, and poke each other with deceased rods of cellulose, you imbecilic primitive life forms! Leave computers be!

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