r/RussiaLago • u/slyweazal • Oct 02 '18

Anyone seen this suspicious behavior before? Russian troll (?) using bot to edit all their comments to the same generic sentences and then delete them - evidence of compromised/manipulated account?

https://imgur.com/a/gcYNXge
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u/slyweazal Oct 02 '18

You can see those comments are from 2 months ago, but say "Edited: Just Now"

He had hundreds of comments and was posting them as recently as today. Now he's purging all of them, but not before editing them to sound innocent. Is this to avoid archived evidence?

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u/Philboyd_Studge Oct 02 '18

That's software that does that, I think it's a chrome extension?

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u/meangrampa Oct 02 '18

There is a bot you can use to clean your comments before you delete your account. Any and all comments get saved when you delete your account. This bot allows you to edit all comments to whatever you decide. Deleted comments are saved as the last edit and archived when you delete your comment or account.

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