Depending on how wide the audience of the comment section is, there's no way you could determine what is a bot from what is a barely literate real person. If I

Depending on how wide the audience of the comment section is, there's no way you could determine what is a bot from what is a barely literate real person. If I go on Facebook, or onto the reply threads of the local newspaper, where I know the people personally, it's such disjointed ranting and jumbled nonsense that it really looks like it came out of a Markov generator. Probably the biggest tells for a real person would be the bizarre lack of attention to spelling and grammar and willy-nilly capitalization and punctuation - although if I got the same message as an email, it'd be an immediate spam flag.