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I used to secretly assume any comment on reddit that uses direction quotation marks ” “ vs " " are bot or AI generated. But I believe that's just how iOS does it?

I wish a comment being completely vapid or trollish were indicator enough.

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You could just reserve your rancor for posts that are completely vapid or trollish — and ignore the issue of how they were created.

It works for me.

Bot content deserves all the derision trolls do.

The best solution for me is to touch grass daily.

I assume those are people who write their comments in MS Word and copy the text with its smart quotes.

Sorry, I wouldn't be caught dead using Word. I use quotation marks because that is the correct punctuation.

> that's just how iOS does it?

MacOS, too.

I have some blogs that make use of Markdown. " is automatically rendered as a ”. Likewise, "--" is rendered as an em dash.

On the osx keyboard layout (which you can use under linux):

    “ < altgr + [
    ” < altgr + ]

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