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This is an automated bot incorrectly claiming posts are dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=b16m https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=b16m Looks l
by blenderob 10mo ago
This is an automated bot incorrectly claiming posts are dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=b16m https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=b16m
Looks like it was banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46188453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46188453
How is it still posting?
- poly2it 10mo agoLooking at the posts, there are many formatting differences added across the comments. Either the account owner are posting the comments themselves, or they are manually modifying the bot script to add mistakes over time.
- embedding-shape 10mo ago> How is it still posting? Banned accounts show up as [dead] as soon as they post, so most users don't see those comments, only those with showdead enabled. Commonly referred to as "shadowbanned" but usually operators also don't tell shadowbanned users they've been shadowbanned.
- blenderob 10mo agoThis one didn't show up as "[dead]" for some reason.
- philipkglass 10mo agoSomebody must have clicked the "vouch" link on the comment, probably not realizing that it was a misleading post by a bot.