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Considering most of reddit's comments are either one-liners and jokes, it's not that hard to get upvotes as a bot... but how'd you spot one? I'm afraid that I didn't learn the ability to distinguish between bot and human.
I think some people just assume people they disagree with are bots.
No it was nothing like that, I'm talking about obvious bots.
Not sure what it's been like since the blackout but it used to be if you reported a bot its account was normally deleted by admin within about 20 minutes.
Expand the comments and do a little ctrl+f searching. The bots tend to copy a comment, post it as their own (verbatim or slightly reworded), then have their fellow bots downvote the original and upvote the bot comment. You can also see in a new but reposted thread, the top few comments are exactly the same as a previous repost.