If you think I’m going to read a three page bot post, you’ve got your head up your ass.

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[–]Alienhunter 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

It's not a bot. It's some random user posting AI shit. It's basic trolling. Won't be able to ban it without fucking up shit. Which is what the troll wants. Just ignore or block if it bothers you.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

They registered over 100 new accounts today and then used them one by one to post spam over the last 5 hours... I just right now deleted about 40 accounts and 200 posts and comments that were clearly all by this same person. They definitely have some automated tools. Some of the accounts are aged 6+ months. I turned the cloudflare up

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Someone having a psychotic break could do that easily. Takes three seconds to make an account. Doesn't necessarily mean it's a bot. The replies are done by AI but I suspect the person is manually copy pasting them in.

I've used the same tactic when trolling reddit before. Gets the people riled up. Make a few really stupid obviously AI posts, when people start complaining about the AI posts. Write a sob story about how you are a poor oppressed starving orphan with religious extremist parents who don't want you to have an education because you are gay and how you only learned to read and write thanks to AI tools. Make it have horrid grammar and spelling. Then sit back and watch the ensuing argument about whether or not it's real.

Or you can just ignore it. Which is the only way to handle trolls. Fuck with them a bit sure but the instant it stops being fun just ignore.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

A person having a psychotic break doesn't do it continuously for 5 years... People having psychotic breaks aren't known for having long-term laser focus

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They don't need it. They just have to be fucked enough to refresh the browser and make new accounts over and over again. It's fucking easy.