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Probably a karma bot
by grae_QED 5y ago
Probably a karma bot
- ibraheemdev 5y agoOr someone who thought it was interesting and wanted to share it with others, not knowing that it had been posted before.
- grae_QED 5y agoThey have over 140,000 points, post multiple times a day and never write any comments. They sure look like a bot. I've seen lots of profiles made around 2012 as well that post regularly but only have a tenth the amount of points as this one has. Also, not sure why you're so quick to defend them. Bots are very common now a days. Its not unreasonable to assume most of the profiles that produce massive amounts of content on most social media platforms are bots.
- krick 5y agoHuh... That's plausible. But I'm curious, how this bot would work? How does it "know" it should make this particular submission?
- ficklepickle 5y agoMust be a pretty advanced bot, because he left a comment explaining his motivation right above this thread.
- krick 5y agoOh well. Now I'm disappointed.
- iamtedd 5y agoWho are you talking about? The submitter - ingve - has many comments going back at least a year, including as a sister comment to yours.
- rhizome 5y agoNothing prevents someone from posting under an account otherwise used as a submission bot. If you actually look where they're commenting, it's usually only on stories that they submitted.
- ingve 5y agoPretty close! Actually, someone was working on a short bash script for backing up some files, tried to remove some hardcoded values, had to use google to figure out how to get the information dynamically using `sysctl` and `system_profiler`, ended up on the Github page for neofetch, and thought "hey this is great, maybe this could be useful for other people as well!" and submitted it.