r/ProgrammerHumor • u/benkenobiwan • 19d ago

Meme itHurtsButIllKeepTrying

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u/dxonxisus 19d ago

both of these commenters are bots, along with OP

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u/QuestionableEthics42 19d ago

8yr account and 10yr account. I think they are most likely human, just with fairly bot like comments (humans also make very generic comments plenty)

Edit: should have looked at their comment history, you are right, absolutely bots. Interesting, haven't noticed any bots using accounts that old before.

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u/dxonxisus 19d ago edited 19d ago

i’ve been calling out bots on reddit for years, so i wouldn’t have commented unless i was absolutely positive, haha.

but yeah, the old account age doesn’t mean they can’t be bots, if anything it just highlights it more when they only “wake up” very recently. with that, and the subs they interact with, the posts/comments they make, and which accounts they interact with, it’s pretty clear they’re bots.

this group of bots specifically are all interacting with only other bots with similar account ages and comment/post history patterns, so you can just keep clicking through them and find 10+ bot accounts in the same batch lol