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10xDevyesterday at 7:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

Unless their account is <1 year I wouldn't assume they are a bot.


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transcriptaseyesterday at 7:38 PM

Reddit astroturfing firms and bot farms learned to buy/use “seasoned” accounts over a decade ago. I’d venture there have been countless bots just in a holding pattern harmlessly building up reputation and a human-like history of posts across different subs etc just to eventually be either activated or sold to someone else to “burn”

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embedding-shapeyesterday at 7:25 PM

So easy to purchase online accounts nowadays, neither karma nor age of the account matters anything anymore.