My hope anyways is that there are more effective countermeasures. I remember Twitter not being nearly as bad before, but that was possibly just because verification actually meant something more than "have $10" and blue checks weren't turbo-boosted.

Reddit wasn’t for a long time. Having leadership in place that actually cares about the users and doing something about bots would go a long way. Maybe when Reddit IPOs and it is a huge bust we can get some new sites going.