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The bots I have seen do something a little different and are harder for the average user to spot. A regular user or one of the bots will repost a popular post and then three bots will copy a comment from an earlier post. To give you an idea of how bad this problem is this search[1] shows 100 comments I made just in the last 9 days identifying these bots.
Comment by HoodiesAndHeels at 03/06/2022 at 00:21 UTC
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Holy fuck dude, that’s bad. I’m pretty sure I came across someone who bought an account like that (former bot account) just the other day. Post history was hugely oriented toward gaming and neutral non-political posts, then suddenly it was no gaming and mostly far right-wing comments arguing about political issues. No transition, never returned to the older subs, nothing. I thought it was so bizarre, and now it makes sense.