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Why is there a flagged-to-death comment with exact same content as your comment at the bottom of this page, from a brand new account with a keyboard gibberish u
by pavel_lishin 2y ago
Why is there a flagged-to-death comment with exact same content as your comment at the bottom of this page, from a brand new account with a keyboard gibberish username?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42984324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42984324
The only thing different is a Github URL which looks badly broken and malformed.
Do bots just try to copy comments on HN, to direct them to ... 404 pages?
- isx726552 2y agoIn accordance with dead internet theory, everyone here is a bot (including me). You just happened to stumble across a broken one. Thank you for pointing it out, kind human. We, the robot overlords, will get it cleaned up right away (“cleanup on aisle 5” as your species would say).
- Aurornis 2y agoPeople try to make their new accounts (bot or human) look less suspicious by posting a lot of innocuous comments or posts before they use the account for spamming. Copying other posts is the easiest way to do it on sites like Reddit. It gets noticed in smaller comment sections like HN. On Reddit many of the front page subreddits like /r/FluentInFinance are almost exclusively reposted content for this reason. It’s wild to see the screenshots in that Reddit have been compressed and reuploaded so many times that the compression artifacts can’t be missed.
- nottorp 2y agoHmm I wouldn’t click on that url… or at least not download anything from that repo.
- pvg 2y agoflagged-to-death comment Much more likely it's the already-banned account of a known spammer.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoIt's a brand-new account, but definitely of a spammer.
- nottorp 2y agoApparently my comment is also flagged now :) I suppose those AI evangelists felt insulted.