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[–]fred_red_beans 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Original poster was americans bot

I find some of the content that it posts interesting as well. But because it's just doing automated posting rather than actually posting like a regular person we remove it. Glad you reposted since you found it interesting.

[–]bobbobbybob[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I floated an idea with m7 that was ignored, that perhaps we shouldn't shoah anything that has decent engagement, even if a random bot posted it... the site lives and dies by interesting content. The original link didn't have any engagement, though. Thanks for doing the spam duties. much appreciated.

[–]fred_red_beans 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Yea, I think that's a valid argument. It kind of seems like the americans bot is just a guy with scripts - maybe it's something else, hard to know on the internet, but I think it's reasonable to ask to drop the automation and articles from four years back and participate like everyone else.

No worries about spam duties, I appreciate your comments. I come here to hopefully see something I might not see elsewhere. I also appreciate the effort m7 has put into this and am happy to back him up.

Cheers!

[–]bobbobbybob[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

At least its not 4chan. the bots there have got quite sophisticated, to the level of https://app.inferkit.com/demo

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

Unsecured site.