Just checked in on the subreddit mentioned in this post. It’s still getting bot posts in the same style, which get upvoted accordingly and commented on with the vast majority not noticing or caring that it’s slop. Mods still out to lunch.
Likewise, there’s now a post on /r/all (seen using old.reddit, the only way to get to it now) at #10 and climbing with the same style but targeting povertyfinance, a bigger sub (one with a pinned message claiming to be a “heavily moderated subreddit”). If you look at the users, you can see the details of how they create a couple comments in random subs until one of those comments get several dozen upvotes, then go for the viral post. All accounts make a move around 8 days after creation. And it’s working, no problem.
Two bot profiles that just reached this point for comparison/posterity:
I know people like to hate on piefeds “Attitude” % on users, but you can clearly see on piefed if a user is mass down-voting posts, if they are new, if they have been flagged by other instances as bots/spam/etc… it helps with finding red flags on accounts that just popped into existence.
I always get suspicious of accounts with
firstsecondword123because this is the fediverse, you dont need to post-pend numbers if you dont want to. Just make your own instance or something. But you see a lot of bots that do that, mostly on the big social media sites.that’s a pretty good defense of it. I’ll probably end up getting a piefed, even though that attitude thing creeped me out
It works more often than not. I think it just needs to be revamped into something other than “attitude” as the verbiage. Its more nuanced than that…but I have no idea what is the correct “way” of saying it. It helps so much though in day to day posting and commenting. It essentially helps me find out if someone is a bot/troll/of just someone with an unfortunate wrong opinion lol.