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marginalia_nuyesterday at 4:17 PM1 replyview on HN

I think there is a baseline number of human users that for one reason or another uses em-dashes, but this doesn't explain why they 10x more prevalent in green accounts.


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cookiengineeryesterday at 5:11 PM

> I think there is a baseline number of human users that for one reason or another uses em-dashes, but this doesn't explain why they 10x more prevalent in green accounts.

I'm not trying to negate the fact. I'm just pointing out that a correlation without another indicator is not evidence enough that someone is a bot user, especially in the golden age of rebranded DDoS botnets as residential proxy services that everyone seems to start using since ~Q4 2024.