As a frequent reader of 'Digital Music News' their articles rarely get more than 2-4 comments per article for the lifespan of the article. IF ANY. I'm starting

As a frequent reader of 'Digital Music News' their articles rarely get more than 2-4 comments per article for the lifespan of the article. IF ANY. I'm starting to suspect that there may be something funny going on with their comments section: This Joe Rogan article currently has 258 comments. They almost all conform to cliches of puerile, immature bickering that one would associate with the worst of online discourse. In short, the antithesis of something like Hacker News, which I love for it's mature, focused discussions. An online catfight of this magnitude for this website seems VERY out of the ordinary. I wouldn't say that this site has any kind of cohesive or reoccurring members who frequent the comments (As far as I can see, and with no hard data). My suspicion is that there may be some funny business involving bots for a lot of these posters. It don't even see repeats between the comment names, which you would expect to see if 1 or two people were going back and forth with one another. Though I do see slight variations in names like 'Micro Penus' and 'Tiny Pen15'. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to test for or detect malicious actors/bots/etc in an instance like this? Or is it likely that 258 bickering people all came out of the woodwork for this single article?