> it's not strictly evidence of voting manipulation Oh, it's very, very obvious, and Actual Human commenters all ask "what is this doing here?" And that style

> it's not strictly evidence of voting manipulation Oh, it's very, very obvious, and Actual Human commenters all ask "what is this doing here?" And that style of message board spamming is decades old, so it's about as obvious to me as a flashing gif banner ad. > The other one is moderation True, once the mods wake up, the posts are always removed. But arguably the damage was already done, and like I said, if this many obvious manipulated posts slip through the cracks, we can make some statistical assumptions about the presence of more evolved predators.