Lately, I’ve recognized many posts from very new accounts here, usually younger than a day. They post a couple of news articles and are never to be seen again.
I’ve checked this communitiy’s modlog and many new accounts get banned relatively quickly. Their behaviour is eerily similar, even their profile pictures have similar styles, so it seems to be the same origin.
Out of curiosity, is there some lore I missed?
More seriously, I think we users in this community maybe should be more conscious about this and stop interacting with posts from these profiles.
Dunno if my post makes any sense, it’s just something weird I noticed and wanted to say something about.
I disagree here - there are a lot of people around here who are not posting comments and that is a totally normal behavior. We know from every forum around there that there are a lot of lurkers who are only reading. There are fewer people who are only liking/upvoting. And then there are fewer people participating and some of them are just submitting links. That’s normal. So let’s not assume that everybody who is just submitting some links into a community is a bot.
(And it is quite easy in the age of LLMs to build a bot that is also posting some random comments like “Great article, thank you”. Account age will also not help as a bad actor can easily create some accounts and let them “age” by simply not using them for a month or so)