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I can't see how the combination of:
Can lead to anything other than Reddit becoming increasingly flooded with botted content. Like you mentioned, it won't happen overnight, but it does seem inevitable.
The decay is already very noticable in some subs. The one I frequented most for example.....wow, what a shitshow that turned into. It was once a place where moderators nuked bot accounts and karma farmers within an hour or so, content was interesting / helpful with only a random meme here and there, guides that were actually based on proper sources instead of "dude trust me", art that was properly credited .... of course there were also occasionally some low-grade posts, but those were seldom upvoted. Last time I checked you couldn't find a single actually worthwile thing buried under the sheer amount of shitposts, Karma Farming reposts, obvious bot accounts and T-shirt scammers, almost all of them upvoted by the thousands. I couldn't stand to look at it for more than a minute and haven't opened reddit ever since.
NGL, it does hurt a bit to see that sub I once loved turn into a dumpster fire, but on the flip side I'm glad that I jumped ship before it happened. I honestly like it better here.