Orwell's '1984' leaps to top of Amazon bestseller list

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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Does s/he do this a lot?

I just notices 4 today/yesterday from 2017

[–]AbeFroman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah. Rumor is that it's a bot. Most of the comments that it makes on other people's posts seem to be off topic and are just cut/paste rants.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That I noticed.

It's funny that people interact with it.

I wonder, have /u/magnora7 and /u/d3rr considered looking at the traffic patterns of dcjogger's IP address? Maybe this "jogging" through SaidIt traffic is masking their archiving of the site?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We know it's a bot but some of it is decent. Someone could petition to ban them.

They can archive away for all I care.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wasn't calling for action so much as study.

It is inevitable that more bots will come and that they will get more advanced.

Learning about them may help somehow one day, if only for a little while.