Microwave is not a bot
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icystar@lemmy.cif.su 3 weeks agoThat’s not true. There’s one bot that routinely posts to news communities called “MicroWave” and there are consistently people engaging with its posts.
Most people don’t even recognize it’s a bot.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 weeks ago
18.4k posts, and his only two comments are those.
irelephant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s because they delete their old comments.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Still not a bot.
If that account is a bot, it should be flagged as such, and LW admins are usually looking closely at those cases.
@MrKaplan@lemmy.world, I assume you checked whether Microwave was a bot or not?
irelephant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s because they delete their old comments.
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
there is currently nothing I can see that would be a strong bot indicator. there are various indicators of an actual human using the account.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
Yeah, it is true. Check out the lemm.it instance it tried to do exactly what you’re talking about about
icystar@lemmy.cif.su 3 weeks ago
Somebody already mentioned that, and I mentioned how all the communities are all locked and literally only the bot can post.
irelephant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
alien.top was a thing, and it was hated.