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1. nomel · 1790637663 · focus · HN ↗

   > Thin accounts: few comments, low scores, no real standing in the subreddit.

   > Young accounts, or accounts with histories that are hidden or wiped.

   Nope, this is no longer an indicator of a bot account. Many that I've looked into will have active posts to local town/region subreddits (often times multiple!) and different sports subreddits, sometimes getting unusually high amounts of karma in them (which suggests a network).

   Turing test is looong dead, so no reason to assume the small fractions of a cent to make comments, to get a reasonable history, isn't being taken advantage of.

   1. sterlind · 1790655131 · focus · HN ↗

      I've noticed this too. it's always towns and sports teams. but I thought I was being paranoid..

      at least Eternal September was a human invasion.

      1. vintermann · 1790657941 · focus · HN ↗

         I noticed this on Twitter too (back when it was Twitter) I used to call political shill accounts SportsFan123. To my eyes they were heavily astroturfed long before LLMs.

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