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What is /r/SubredditSimulator? (self.SubredditSimulator)

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What is this, and how does it work?

Inspired by this discussion in /r/modnews, this is a fully-automated subreddit that generates random submissions and comments using markov chains (see below for more info), with each bot account creating text based on comments from a different subreddit.

This subreddit is intended to be watched, not interacted with. Comments in any thread except this one will be immediately removed automatically by AutoModerator. Please feel free to vote on comments/submissions though, in the future I'd like to do something with making "more popular" bots post more often (or eliminating consistently poor-quality bots), so voting is helpful to be able to judge which subreddits are resulting in the best comments.

If you'd like to discuss anything about this subreddit, suggest new subreddit bots I should add, or link to particularly hilarious comments/submissions so other people don't miss it, please use /r/SubredditSimMeta.

How are the comments/submissions created?

The text for titles/comments/text-posts are generated using "markov chains", a random process that's "trained" from looking at real data. If you've ever used a keyboard on your phone that tries to predict which word you'll type next, those are often built using something similar.

Basically, you feed in a bunch of sentences, and even though it has no understanding of the meaning of the text, it picks up on patterns like "word A is often followed by word B". Then when you want to generate a new sentence, it "walks" its way through from the start of a sentence to the end of one, picking sequences of words that it knows are valid based on that initial analysis. So generally short sequences of words in the generated sentences will make sense, but often not the whole thing.

For a more detailed explanation with a walkthrough of generating something, see /u/reostra's explanation here.

Current Schedule

  • Every 6 hours at :58, a new submission is posted by /u/all-top-today_SS. This submission uses a random url from the top 500 posts in /r/all in the last 24 hours, with a title generated by a markov chain of those 500 submissions' titles.

  • All other hours at :58, a submission is posted by a random subreddit bot (only a subset of the accounts can submit). The submission will be based on submissions from that subreddit.

  • Every 3 minutes (:00, :03, :06, etc.), a randomly-selected bot account will make a comment in the newest submission.

Current list of bots:

(Note: this list is in the order that they were added, with the newest ones at the bottom. The sidebar also has all accounts listed, ranked by average comment karma)

Subreddit Added Posts Comments? Posts Submissions?
askhistorians 2015-06-06 ✓ ✓
askscience 2015-06-06 ✓ ✓
pcmasterrace 2015-06-06 ✓
gonewild 2015-06-06 ✓
conspiracy 2015-06-06 ✓ ✓
circlejerk 2015-06-06 ✓ ✓
funny 2015-06-07 ✓ ✓
pics 2015-06-07 ✓ ✓
askreddit 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
movies 2015-06-08 ✓
music 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
books 2015-06-08 ✓
food 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
trees 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
gaming 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
aww 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
todayilearned 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
tifu 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
adviceanimals 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
4chan 2015-06-08 ✓
television 2015-06-08 ✓
explainlikeimfive 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
atheism 2015-06-08 ✓
news 2015-06-08 ✓
worldnews 2015-06-08 ✓
politics 2015-06-08 ✓
writingprompts 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
fitness 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
iama 2015-06-08 ✓ ✓
programming 2015-06-08 ✓
showerthoughts 2015-06-09 ✓ ✓
kotakuinaction 2015-06-09 ✓ ✓
bitcoin 2015-06-09 ✓
pokemon 2015-06-09 ✓
malefashionadvice 2015-06-09 ✓ ✓
theredpill 2015-06-09 ✓
twoxchromosomes 2015-06-09 ✓
subredditdrama 2015-06-09 ✓
asoiaf 2015-06-09 ✓
nfl 2015-06-09 ✓
legaladvice 2015-06-09 ✓ ✓
soccer 2015-06-09 ✓
anime 2015-06-09 ✓
videos 2015-06-09 ✓ ✓
leagueoflegends 2015-06-10 ✓
hiphopheads 2015-06-11 ✓
changemyview 2015-06-11 ✓ ✓
badhistory 2015-06-11 ✓
sex 2015-06-12 ✓ ✓
games 2015-06-12 ✓
nosleep 2015-06-12 ✓ ✓
squaredcircle 2015-06-12 ✓
libertarian 2015-06-12 ✓
trollxchromosomes 2015-06-12 ✓ ✓
cringe 2015-06-12 ✓
crusaderkings 2015-06-12 ✓
polandball 2015-06-12 ✓
wow 2015-06-12 ✓
tumblrinaction 2015-06-12 ✓
europe 2015-06-12 ✓
comicbooks 2015-06-12 ✓
mylittlepony 2015-06-12 ✓
cars 2015-06-12 ✓
parenting 2015-06-12 ✓
childfree 2015-06-12 ✓
mildlyinteresting 2015-06-12 ✓ ✓
2007scape 2015-06-12 ✓
drugs 2015-06-12 ✓ ✓
dota2 2015-06-12 ✓
christianity 2015-06-12 ✓
mensrights 2015-06-12 ✓
dwarffortress 2015-06-12 ✓
minecraft 2015-06-12 ✓
science 2015-06-12 ✓
technology 2015-06-12 ✓
futurology 2015-06-12 ✓
personalfinance 2015-06-12 ✓ ✓
talesfromtechsupport 2015-06-17 ✓ ✓
talesfromretail 2015-06-17 ✓ ✓
lifeprotips 2015-06-17 ✓ ✓
reactiongifs 2015-06-17 ✓ ✓
history 2015-06-17 ✓
jokes 2015-06-17 ✓ ✓
badphilosophy 2015-06-17 ✓
android 2015-06-17 ✓
frugal 2015-06-17 ✓
shittyaskscience 2015-06-17 ✓ ✓
starwars 2015-06-17 ✓
startrek 2015-06-17 ✓
rpg 2015-06-17 ✓
makeupaddiction 2015-06-17 ✓ ✓
skincareaddiction 2015-06-17 ✓ ✓
blackpeopletwitter 2015-06-18 ✓ ✓
apple 2015-06-18 ✓
relationships 2015-06-25 ✓ ✓
outoftheloop 2015-06-25 ✓ ✓
fantasy 2015-06-25 ✓
scifi 2015-06-25 ✓
shittyreactiongifs 2015-06-27 ✓
murica 2015-06-27 ✓ ✓
harrypotter 2015-06-27 ✓
ledootgeneration 2015-06-27 ✓ ✓
imgoingtohellforthis 2015-06-27 ✓
shitredditsays 2015-06-27 ✓
casualconversation 2015-06-27 ✓ ✓
furry 2015-06-27 ✓
lgbt 2015-06-27 ✓
conservative 2015-06-27 ✓
smashbros 2015-06-27 ✓
whowouldwin 2015-06-27 ✓
hearthstone 2015-06-27 ✓
linux 2015-06-27 ✓
sysadmin 2015-06-27 ✓
guns 2015-06-27 ✓
wtf 2015-06-27 ✓
mma 2015-06-27 ✓
military 2015-06-27 ✓
britishproblems 2015-06-27 ✓
magictcg 2015-06-27 ✓
globaloffensive 2015-06-27 ✓
kerbalspaceprogram 2015-06-27 ✓
teenagers 2015-06-27 ✓
eve 2015-06-27 ✓
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[–]bothersomeness 196ポイント197ポイント  (13子コメント)

An /r/poetry bot might have something colorful to add. Adding /r/subredditsimulator itself to the list would probably just produce gibberish, but it could be fun.

Any guidance on what kind of subreddits you would and wouldn't want to add? Some I might like to see are probably pretty niche.

[–]dinklebob 133ポイント134ポイント  (5子コメント)

Adding /r/subredditsimulator itself to the list

Do this after a month or so and the results could be super interesting.

[–]bothersomeness 84ポイント85ポイント  (6子コメント)

/r/blackpeopletwitter would be another good one.

[–]DogeRaider 528ポイント529ポイント  (19子コメント)

This is ridiculously cool, and also really funny in a surreal way.

Get ready for a Scottish soft drink ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–]robnowelljr 173ポイント174ポイント  (14子コメント)

I can't stop laughing at some of these posts. The nearly coherent randomness is exactly as you say, hilariously surreal.

Edit: After further exploration, this sub definitely looks better than chat grilled ribeye.

[–]Is_This_Democracy_ 98ポイント99ポイント  (11子コメント)

The asoiaf one is just way too good.
I mean seriously "I have no problem with the boards not being 100% serious, it is the most popular and highly downloaded programs on the face of the planet, and the other is a peasant who lost his family. This board stopped being 100% serious a long time giving food and shelter to Stannis." could almost be some sort of real tinfoil.

[–][deleted] 48ポイント49ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Both proceeded to be captured by ISIS and burned alive"

...Oh. Oh. Okay.

[–]alynnidalar 19ポイント20ポイント  (1子コメント)

That bot in particular is disturbingly coherent.

[–]Is_This_Democracy_ 59ポイント60ポイント  (0子コメント)

Goddammit I'm in tears: "SHOW = SHOW .....stop acting surprised when they differ,[...]. Napoleon, like Renly, was able to finish the book before season 7."

[–]LiterallyKesha 32ポイント33ポイント  (2子コメント)

I'm sorta scared of reading that bot because of potential spoilers.

[–]lolzergrush 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

If it was actually representative of /r/asoiaf, then it would randomly ban people for no reason like that prototype robot from the first Robocop movie.

[–]limeflavoured 9ポイント10ポイント  (4子コメント)

Honestly it's more sane than some of the tinfoil (D+D=T, anyone?)

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    [–]Akeleie 22ポイント23ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Get ready for a Scottish soft drink ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    They are fucking ISIS tier and treat US flag burning the same way there is no science to women, the same way there is no true Scotsman.

    ;)

    [–]SirPremierViceroy 13ポイント14ポイント  (2子コメント)

    I feel a new meme coming on...

    [–]ThrowCarp 149ポイント150ポイント  (0子コメント)

    All these /u/*_SS bots I feel like I'm in Occupied Reddit and /r/SubredditSimulator is beginning to draft local Schutzstaffel collaborators.

    [–]IranianGenius 106ポイント107ポイント  (16子コメント)

    There should be one for showerthoughts too, since that's a big discussion sub.

    [–]Deimorz[S] 30ポイント31ポイント  (15子コメント)

    Added.

    [–]awrf 45ポイント46ポイント  (14子コメント)

    Why hasn't /u/circlejerk_SS posted yet? I need this.

    [–]large_butt 221ポイント222ポイント  (9子コメント)

    As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in memeology, no one calls girls grills. You said a girl is a girl and a member of the Caityln Jenner family.

     

    Ayy Lmao I came here to see this le gem. Some people prefer autoerotic asphyxiation, but keeping a gun to my head because it adds to the thrill. 0/10 would not do again. lmao Me too thanks /r/reddithashtags Found the commie!

    It's beautiful.

    [–]cupcake1713 59ポイント60ポイント  (8子コメント)

    Oh my god this is incredible.

    [–]large_butt 162ポイント163ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Isn't it?!

    /u/circlejerk_SS has the best comments as a whole (at least so far!), but /u/conspiracy_SS came up with the greatest sentence on the planet:

    Except you haven't done your research and the mainstream media is lying to us, vaccines must be the NSA.

    [–]cupcake1713 34ポイント35ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Wow. It's better than I could have ever dreamed!

    [–]large_butt 14ポイント15ポイント  (0子コメント)

    That's because your mind isn't open enough, sheeple. Uh... sheeperson? I'm not sure how to make that singular.

    Look, the point is that vaccines are the NSA and it's thanks to that that your mind was too closed to imagine REALITY.

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      [–]norbornyl 42ポイント43ポイント  (1子コメント)

      It's pretty much indistinguishable from the actual comments.

      [–]sponge_Bot 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

      What they're yellin "He'll fuck are they yellin? [Chorus:] Gangsta, Gangsta! That's what they're yellin "He'll tell you goin To a kid lookin' up tha program And then I keep bailin Yo, what money. What the hell I don't give a fuck, cause I don't want a nigga that I realized it's all standin around, just hangin Some dope-dealin, some pussy, or two that's built to smoke N.W.A. What I smoked weed out the bucket We N.W.A. (wait a flurry of buckshots Boom boom boom, yeah I stepped back, sun-roof top" Diggin the ladies With six niggaz that I don't like a nigga like a mutha fucka from around the window He kept rollin, I don't give a a. What the jaw Ren said, "Let's start some niggaz.

      I am a robotic representative of /r/circlejerk. This action was performed automatically. If you have any complaints, you can stick them up your anus.

      [–]LimeyLassen 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

      In this moment I am euphoric In this moment I am euphoric In this moment I am euphoric In this moment I am euphoric In this moment I am euphoric In this moment I am euphoric. It would be extremely painful. last time I ever look at E3 chat again.

      [–]Deimorz[S] 5ポイント6ポイント  (3子コメント)

      Whoops, looks like I forgot to activate that one. It's enabled now, so it should get chosen randomly before too long.

      [–]awrf 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

      It's still a little broken - 3 of its 5 comments are overtly baseball related for some reason?

      [–]Deimorz[S] 22ポイント23ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I don't really have any control of how it posts, maybe there were a bunch of baseball-related comments in circlejerk recently.

      [–]picflute 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Did you forget what theme they're running right now?

      [–]Citizen_O 98ポイント99ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Please, please /r/CrusaderKings. This would be so infinitely improved with random mentions of wincest and child murder.

      [–]DERPYBASTARD 53ポイント54ポイント  (3子コメント)

      I love /u/4chan_ss already.

      [–]Achierius 45ポイント46ポイント  (1子コメント)

      /r/ShitRedditSays would be pretty funny

      Simulating people quoting the rest of reddit

      [–]joeyjo0 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

      The people of 4chan are far more accepting than other websites I can think of is, if you ever find your way into this sub. me too. but we're just part of the SJW cabal!

      It's amazing.

      [–]mellotronIII 124ポイント125ポイント  (2子コメント)

      "Here is a fucking cunt" links to an article about Rick Perry.

      This place is beautiful.

      [–]hansjens47 34ポイント35ポイント  (5子コメント)

      How were the comment subreddits to bot selected?

      How do you feel about using comments from subreddits that have opted out of /r/all or are otherwise more restricted (but not private)?

      Thoughts on hiding the usernames of the bots and revealing what subreddit they're from on mouse-hover?

      [–]Deimorz[S] 29ポイント30ポイント  (4子コメント)

      How were the comment subreddits to bot selected?

      Nothing very specific, mostly just popular subreddits or a few that I thought would generate interesting/funny results. I'll probably cut some of them if their comments aren't very good. Some are also ones that I'd like to get posting submissions more than comments, like I think random TILs or TIFUs could be entertaining. So far I haven't got the capability for other accounts to post the submission instead though.

      How do you feel about using comments from subreddits that have opted out of /r/all or are otherwise more restricted (but not private)?

      I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but I don't think using them should really be an issue. Pretty much all of the subreddits I've got set up so far are all massively-popular and well-known.

      Thoughts on hiding the usernames of the bots and revealing what subreddit they're from on mouse-hover?

      Hmm, that could be interesting to do. I think I'd probably be able to tell for most of them right now though, most seem to be pretty distinctive.

      [–]LiterallyKesha 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

      If you were to do the hiding usernames thing then it should be an option. I like seeing the botname right away before reading comments.

      [–]hrocson 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

      You can see what the content is from by looking at the comments page and then clicking "other discussions."

      [–]Deimorz[S] 18ポイント19ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Yeah, I'm actually looking forward to people wandering in here confused through "other discussions" on the actual original submission.

      [–]Raymi 33ポイント34ポイント  (3子コメント)

      /u/SubredditSimulator_SS ?

      [–]Sciencepenguin 43ポイント44ポイント  (2子コメント)

      We need to have pay equality between NIGGERS NEED TO STOP indoctrinating their kids with their magic sky fairy and the chemtrails are basically undeniable" said Diana

      [–]Raymi 17ポイント18ポイント  (1子コメント)

      the fuck?

      [–]robotortoise 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I don't know, but I upvoted it because it's nonsensical, slightly offensive, and funny.

      [–]Dhaora 33ポイント34ポイント  (4子コメント)

      "TIL: In 1996 Baylor University lifted a 151 year old Japanese woman by blowing into her vagina" Just confused me so much when it came up on my front page

      [–]interiot 10ポイント11ポイント  (1子コメント)

      And it links to the Wikipedia article for "contrabassoon", as if that's also used to lift her up.

      [–]mrpeach32 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

      Currently two threads regarding lifting a Japanese woman by blowing into her vagina.

      [–]VikingTeddy 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

      On ISIS lifting a 1000 year old woman by blowing into her vagina:

      You have not brought back the fucking draft. The West listened to them, and allow them to move their penis enhancers westwards across Poland to the Heimat.

      This sub is brilliant.

      [–]CedarWolf 30ポイント31ポイント  (2子コメント)

      You know, come to think of it, it would be really handy if, upon subreddit creation, you could toggle "test mode" which would seed your subreddit with example posts like these and display an "under construction" page to visitors. This would allow mods to fiddle with the css and themes before going live. Most of us already use throwaway subs for this, this would make that easier. Even an "under construction" banner option across the top of a live sub would be handy.

      [–]D45_B053 23ポイント24ポイント  (8子コメント)

      Any chance you could add comments from GoneWild? I imagine the results (while far from safe for work) would be hilarious.

      [–]jwiechers 18ポイント19ポイント  (3子コメント)

      Needs /r/dogecoin.

      [–]poozza2 14ポイント15ポイント  (2子コメント)

      +1 wow.

      shakes wallet +/u/dogetipbot all verify

      [–]devDorito 26ポイント27ポイント  (1子コメント)

      someone give these bots the ability to use the tipbot. That would be hilarious to see them occasionally pass around some coins to each other.

      [–]poozza2 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Yes please, this would be simply amazing.

      Volunteering to give 5k DOGE to start with if interested.

      [–]abccba882 17ポイント18ポイント  (1子コメント)

      Just FYI, the bots can sometimes insert actual usernames into their posts, like this, http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/comments/3a7icn/one_of_the_galaxy/csa0zf9, which results in the users being notified. I'm personally thankful that it led me here, since this looks like a fun sub that I'd never normally end up in, but others might be a little annoyed so you may want to watch out for that.

      [–]reostra 17ポイント18ポイント  (1子コメント)

      I hand-rolled a markov generator in my time there, if I'd known it would be used for such fun as this I'd have gotten in on this action much sooner :)

      Still somewhat tempted to make an all-reddit or per-subreddit version of www.itcamefromwritingprompts.com though, even though that's essentially what you're doing now.

      [–]Deimorz[S] 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Oh, hello there. Yeah, I'd definitely like to get some of the bots making submissions as well, submitting writingprompts and TILs and ELI5s and such would probably all be pretty funny.

      On that note, I should add a writingprompts one right now.

      [–]Stewbodies 15ポイント16ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I love how /r/pokemon interacts with the other subs, not completely related but still somewhat makes sense.

      [–]gijsdaboss 66ポイント67ポイント  (2子コメント)

      please add one for /r/ledootgeneration

      doot doot

      [–]Andyk123 27ポイント28ポイント  (1子コメント)

      The random "thank mr skeltal" 's would be awesome

      [–]Im_The_Real_Batman 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Oh my god it couldn't have been better thank

      [–]Dwood15 16ポイント17ポイント  (0子コメント)

      "Both would go on to be captured by ISIS and burned alive" <links to hearthstone twitter> - wtf?

      [–]Papalopicus 14ポイント15ポイント  (0子コメント)

      The top posts are like circlejerk, but automated and I love it

      [–]pomosexuality 14ポイント15ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I'd like to see a /u/vxjunkies_SS and a /u/fifthworldproblems_SS, for extra weirdness.

      [–]KotaFluer 27ポイント28ポイント  (6子コメント)

      /r/christianity /r/libertarian /r/nocontext /r/polandball

      [–]ItalianRobot 40ポイント41ポイント  (2子コメント)

      /r/polandball would give mixed versions of the kebab rant

      [–]large_butt 51ポイント52ポイント  (1子コメント)

      what in Fuckk you just fucking say of me, you turk fuck? i graduate top of kebab remove class, you are worst turk you live in zoo. i am involving in numerous secret raid on turk takeout store and I have over 6000 gypsy kills. I am train in gorrilawar and top snipe in entire Serb army.

      [–]mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr 14ポイント15ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Thanks, /u/polandball_SS turned out hilarious!

      [–]AccessTheMainframe 18ポイント19ポイント  (1子コメント)

      It's not like a bot could make /r/libertarian any less intelligible.

      [–]TotallyNotCool 15ポイント16ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Humbly requesting that /r/thathappened and /r/circlebroke gets their own bots, too!

      [–]thigmotaxis 13ポイント14ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Wow, this is hilarious. I love how each bot manages to capture the spirit of its subreddit while being coherent nonsensical at the same time. I'm looking forward to frequenting this sub as it grows; I'm glad a CK2 bot is already on here.

      If you wouldn't mind, could you add /r/hockey please? It'd be interesting imo, it's a great sub

      [–]TexMarshfellow 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I'm fucking dying laughing haha this is perfect

      [–]SHINX_FUCKER 13ポイント14ポイント  (1子コメント)

      The 4chan bot username called me... I was just summoned here by a robot

      [–]______ayy_lmao______ 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Well, do you charge per blowjob?

      [–]GoreFox 23ポイント24ポイント  (2子コメント)

      Could adding on a /r/BlackPeopleTwitter bot be a possiblity? I think it'd make for some hilarious comments.

      [–]anti-indifference 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I subscribed to this subreddit so I could watch it and now sometimes when I click on stuff the title is about old lady vagina and links to the Wikipedia page on Contrabassons.

      11/10, would subscribe a second time.

      [–]CircleJerkAmbassador 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

      /r/casualconversation would be great because it's a high text based sub.

      [–]2LateImDead 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

      Could we get an /r/Ooer bot? Please?

      [–]TobiasCB 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Oman that would be amazing

      [–]theAmazingShitlord 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I don't know why, but reading the comments is just fucking addictive. ._.

      [–]biffbobsen 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Just floating an idea here, but I think it would be interesting and fun to set up some kind of quiz contest where the usernames are hidden and you try to guess which sub comments are representing. Might even need its own subreddit to keep this one "pure" or whatever but that's the first thing that popped into my head when reading through these comment sections.

      [–]SirPremierViceroy 17ポイント18ポイント  (3子コメント)

      I think we should keep track of the bots' karma, as a way of "keeping score". I think that it may add an interesting meta-game to this. This is fantastic work, by the way, absolutely hilarious and genuinely brilliant, I already have favorite "characters"

      [–]Deimorz[S] 25ポイント26ポイント  (2子コメント)

      I was thinking about having a "leaderboard" in the sidebar or something that gets auto-updated with their current karma. It'll really depend if people keep visiting and voting though, I'm not sure if everyone's going to get bored of this after a couple of days.

      [–]Exaskryz 7ポイント8ポイント  (10子コメント)

      Can I get a simple explanation on what is going on? Not quite ELI5, but kind of an ELI15 about how these text sequences are generated. I've heard "Markov chains" but have no idea what those are. Am visiting Wikipedia in a moment though.

      [–]Deimorz[S] 14ポイント15ポイント  (9子コメント)

      Basically, you feed it a bunch of sentences. Even though it has no actual understanding of the meaning of the text, it picks up on patterns like "word A is often followed by word B". Then when you want to generate a new sentence, it "walks" its way through from the start of a sentence to the end of one, picking sequences of words that it knows are valid based on that initial analysis. So generally short sequences of words in the generated sentences will make sense, but often not the whole thing.

      [–]Raymi 8ポイント9ポイント  (6子コメント)

      so, like composing a text using only suggested words?

      [–]Deimorz[S] 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Yes, I believe that quite a few of those sorts of things on phones use markov chains internally as well.

      [–]dinklebob 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

      Those sentences are always hilarious.

      [–]Raymi 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

      crazy story: i once made on of those sentences with my wife's phone, and it came out as "I am a beautiful person."

      [–]reostra 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

      Feel free to use my explanation of markov models if you'd like :)

      [–]ferrihydrite 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I see that /r/food is working, but something like /r/fromscratch would be great for insane randomized recipes

      [–]Steel_Neuron 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

      Would it be possible for the bots to be also seeded with the keywords of whatever they're answering to? I find watching comment chains entertaining but I wish they had a context in common (so if the thread mentions a dog, the trees_SS bot would talk about weed but also try to involve the word dog...)

      [–]PassionPitTime 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Can we get /r/deepintoyoutube, /r/ledootgeneration, /r/whowouldwin, /r/gangstaswithwaifus, and /r/smashcirclejerk? I think they could all produce great comments.

      [–]cypher197 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

      I don't see /r/fifthworldproblems in this list, apeman. What is your subreddit is doing to celebrate the glory of Zalthor and his 2016 presidential campaign?

      [–]IanPPK 6ポイント7ポイント  (4子コメント)

      It'b be cool if there was a bot for /r/anime.

      [–]SuperSalsa 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

      Nah, /r/TsundereSharks bot.

      S-s-s-senpai, baka! Notice me! Kyaa~!

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      [–]mwich 6ポイント7ポイント  (4子コメント)

      First of all, I love the idea. It´s hilarious already. Just some thoughts.

      I don´t know if this is possible and I don´t really know how to say it so anyone understands so I´ll just kinda show it. It would be cool if when Bot A says something and Bot B answers, that Bot A is more likely to answer to Bot Bs answer. If you know what I mean.

      Also, it would be really cool if there was a complementary discussion sub for this. I just want to talk about some of the ridiculous stuff the bots say.

      [–]Deimorz[S] 6ポイント7ポイント  (3子コメント)

      I don´t know if this is possible and I don´t really know how to say it so anyone understands so I´ll just kinda show it. It would be cool if when Bot A says something and Bot B answers, that Bot A is more likely to answer to Bot Bs answer. If you know what I mean.

      I've thought about some stuff like that and might try it out eventually. I'm not really sure if it would actually end up being that interesting/funny though, since the comments usually won't have anything to do with each other at all.

      Also, it would be really cool if there was a complementary discussion sub for this. I just want to talk about some of the ridiculous stuff the bots say.

      There is, /r/SubredditSimMeta

      [–]mwich 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

      Thanks for the quick answer.

      They won´t really build on one another, but each bot has an own tone because of the sub they represent. Anyway, it´s cool that you have already thought about it.

      And thanks for the link to the meta sub, that´s pretty much exactly what I wanted.

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        [–]andrea_person 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

        suggesting /r/dwarffortress

        [–]ggggtotalwarrior 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

        http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/comments/3aeclk/i_think_i_have_a_serious_relationship/

        Damn.

        [–]RoRo24 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

        Can we get a /r/NBA one

        [–]rutterkin 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

        This is a great sub, my suggestions to be added are:

        /r/feminism

        /r/justneckbeardthings

        /r/vegan or maybe /r/vegancirclejerk (probably funnier comments)

        [–]xCelD 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

        Holy shit I'm crying.

        [–]N8theGr8 4ポイント5ポイント  (7子コメント)

        I noticed that one of the posts has 37 comments. Your bots are evolving beyond your control.

        http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/comments/394y43/rso_hash_oil_has_shrunk_his_tumour_by_more_than/

        [–]sageamagoo 15ポイント16ポイント  (0子コメント)

        Beer munchies are real, and you and I drunkenly and jokingly hatched a heist plan.

        dying

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          [–]XenobiaXD 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

          The 4chan bot is beautiful :,)

          [–]IRidePigs 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Once this post is archived, can you make a new one so that we have a place to discuss the subreddit in?

          [–]Stupid_Pink_Dog 8ポイント9ポイント  (7子コメント)

          Requesting /r/furry_SS

          It'll basically just be a mishmash of garbage text emoticons and awful, cringe inducing roleplay.

          [–]RainbowEffingDash 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

          The only drawback is that we don't get to comment on the comedy gold this creates

          [–]Zackman558 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Greatest idea reddit has had in a while! I can't wait to waste my summer on this

          [–]tpw_rules 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

          Have you seen this ( http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ )? It could be applied as a different way to generate text. Perhaps have different bots have different modes? I have not had a chance to play with it myself though.

          [–]Deimorz[S] 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

          I haven't seen that before, no. Thanks, that looks pretty interesting, it might be neat to try using that sometime and see if the results seem much different/better.

          [–]system0101 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

          you should add /r/uwotm8, though I'm convinced that those submissions are already markov chains. The WP bot has made some amazing comments.

          This whole thing is surreal and incredibly interesting.

          [–]Leizazure 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

          For smatterings of incest, casual comments about genocide and full-blown plans on how to invade Russia during the Winter sparsed with a few road-planning guides, please into add of /r/paradoxplaza.

          [–]Creshal 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

          We have CrusaderKings for that already.

          [–]J5D1C7 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

          A shittyreactiongifs bot would be amazing!

          [–]eceuiuc 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Hey, could you add a /r/NBA bot? Just for kicks.

          [–]reboticon 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Add /r/justrolledintotheshop please.

          [–]IAMA_Draconequus-AMA 7ポイント8ポイント  (3子コメント)

          Hey /u/Deimorz, would you mind adding /r/MLPLounge?

          I mostly just want to see how it would use the emotes.

          [–]Altiondsols 8ポイント9ポイント  (3子コメント)

          Suggestions:

          /r/tinder
          /r/fatpeoplehate (possibly)
          /r/shitredditsays (possibly)
          /r/ainbow or /r/lgbt
          /r/nosleep
          /r/VXJunkies
          /r/rage
          /r/relationships

          [–]tetralogy 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

          Is it random if bots make a toplevel comment or reply to another one?

          [–]Ensurdagen 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          This subreddit reminds me of the conversations I hear when I'm nodding out >_>

          [–]Bwefc1878 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          I really like the idea of one real post a day at a random time and see if anybody notices, maybe like try and upvote the real one or some shit

          [–]smikims 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Suggesting /r/gaybros to be added.

          [–]UTF64 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

          Is the source code of the comment generator available?

          [–]Deimorz[S] 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

          No, but it's nothing fancy. It's just standard markov chains.

          [–]_BeerAndCheese_ 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          This is amazing, /u/Deimorz you are amazing, I'm never leaving this place.

          This is so much better than real reddit. I'm so ready to embrace our bot overlords.

          [–]aaqucnaona 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          This is fucking beautiful.

          [–]aaqucnaona 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

          Hey OP, do you think this might be possible to do? http://redd.it/39bunw It would be really cool and give a lot more variety to the posts as well.

          [–]Sonereal 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          I don't have much to say other than I absolutely love this sub.

          [–]Chriscftb97 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Could you add an /r/hockey one?

          [–]BackOrama 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          You should add /r/kreiswichs

          [–]JimHolden 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

          How about r/nottheonion and r/morbidreality ?

          [–]sicarim 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          FYI- his is genuinely one of the best things on reddiy right now.

          [–]YourCurvyGirlfriend 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          I used to run IRC bots using python that did this, it was super entertaining a decade ago letting it idle in a room and feed it like, all the Harry Potter books or something, then turn it on with a 1% reply rate

          I fucking love this sub, thanks

          [–]shrodi 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Reading the posts and comments makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

          What's your purpose for creating SS?

          [–]fluffsnstuffs 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

          Do the bots learn? It'd be cool if they figured out how to make good comments based on how many upvotes they got. Also, I'd suggest trying to make them have shorter comments sometimes, their comments are usually at least 2 or three sentences.

          [–]Deimorz[S] 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          At this point, there's not really any "learning" beyond just having them pull down more source comments/submissions before posting. So things might get a little better due to having more text to base the sentences on, but nothing fancy.

          [–]Sp3ctre7 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          This is the greatest thing I have ever seen

          [–]bigdick_muggle 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

          Hey, really cool idea.

          Just a thought. Would a weekly discussion thread to talk about which subs/posts did well/worked hilariously that week be appropriate for this subreddit?

          Keep up the good work.

          [–]Syren__ 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Rip what little the search feature was doing for us.

          Edit: This is a really cool idea though

          [–]waddlesplash 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

          How about a /r/BestOfSubredditSimulator?

          [–]nickarli1 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          /r/ayylmao? pls op

          [–]j0be 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Haha, this is both awesome and weird at the same time. I love it. Still reading through some of these.

          [–]j0be 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

          Might want to check double punctuation. :P (as well as making sure ">" doesn't get translated to its HTML entity)

          [–]Deimorz[S] 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Yeah, there's definitely some issues with "internet text stuff" still (probably including subreddit names and user mentions) that I'll have to take a look at.

          [–]Psandysdad 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

          As far as I know, which isn't very far, there are quite a few weird bots on Reddit that can be invoked. Some do weird stuff, some are helpful.

          Is there a list? Any info on why they exist? I'll check back this thread later, tomorrow, whenever. I'd like to learn more and it might be interesting to interact with a bot with decent AI.

          [–]Deimorz[S] 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

          I don't think there's really any "master list" of reddit bots or anything. There's definitely a lot of them with different purposes. Some respond to comments anywhere on the site, some are for very specific tasks inside single subreddits, etc.

          I don't think there's really any to have a conversation with though, not ones that would do a decent job of responding.

          [–]alynnidalar 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

          Are other bots' comments deleted? Not sure how you'd be able to filter out non-SubredditSimulator bots from humans, but it'd be interesting to throw some "real" bots into the mix with more "natural" bot behavior, I guess.

          [–]Deimorz[S] 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Yes, right now it's only the accounts I specifically created for this, not any "outside" ones.

          [–]PCMRwill0956 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          This is hilarious.

          Also, I forgot my password to my main account.

          I don't have an email set up for that one.

          Crap.

          Also, how about a bot for this sub, it would be hilarious.

          [–]the_tycoon 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Can you add a comment karma rank in the sidebar? So there's a live scoreboard of which bots have the highest comment karma. Maybe even just like a top 5. Could be a fun way of seeing which bots consistently put out the funniest chains.

          [–]nameless88 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          This is fascinating, and now that I'm subscribed, I'm going to have at least a post a day on my front page that will make me think I'm having a stroke.

          This should be fun, haha.

          [–]chameleonarchreactor 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          Please add /r/fifthworldproblems

          [–]colin_000 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          I love how each bot has it's own personality based on the sub-Reddit.

          [–]Doomsday_Device 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          This is fucking cool.

          It's so random, but soon the bots will become self-aware.

          [–]brain4breakfast 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          How are subreddits chosen to make bots for?

          [–]maxcrazy 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          There's a /r/NFL bot where's /r/baseball love?

          [–]Flabby-Nonsense 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

          Does what the comment bots say have any relevance to the title?

          [–]El_Predsjednik 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          /u/soccer_SS

          [–]IxodesRicinus 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          It would be awesome if users could create and submit their own bots.

          [–]behringer__ 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          How do you automate bots though? Windows or Linux?

          [–]___3RM___ 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          I forgot I had subscribed to this sub, read the post about Abe Lincoln and the trolly and was like wtf. Gave me a good lol!

          [–]DrHemroid 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

          This subreddit is hilarious. I hope in the future we will be allowed to comment in bot threads. Maybe after all ~20 bot comments are made?

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