Full title: I hid a link on my website that only bots can see and told them not to follow it. They broke the rules and in 4 days they went 124,414 levels deep into an endless maze. One bot opened 782,580 doors. I thought this was super interesting, this is how the internet is these days. Thought I’d share.

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[–] 66 points 5 days ago (38 children)

Is ironic the word for OP being a repost bot? Or is it just expected at this point?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (37 children)

    How do you know? Just curious.

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  • [–] 45 points 5 days ago (13 children)

    Post history and seeing the same username every day. Plus they rarely every respond to questions and comments when they post and what they respond with is generic.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    What's the purpose of doing this as a bot but not declaring the account as a bot account? On other sites, they do it for karma farming, but that doesn't really apply here, right?

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  • [–] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    Probably just another layer of analytics for engagement bait in other spaces. They can also copy top comments and train LLMs and whatever else every bad actor does to every internet comment site now. They are like a slime mold and grow toward any source of nutrition except it's an n-dimensional maze and the nutrition is influencing public opinion and scamming people.

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  • [+] -9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    If you see the same username every day, that means you are on every day.... only a spy would do that.

    Suspected Chinese agent, possibly Russian

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  • [–] -4 points 5 days ago* (3 children)

    In other words, you don't really know - not that there's anything wrong with that. Opinions and "it's obvious" are the social media standard for "fact".

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    That user has a history of reposting reddit content and the format and pattern of posts are obviously not human. All of its posts are originally from reddit. A simple search of its posts will show you they are copied word for word from an older reddit post. What more evidence do you need?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    I prefer to think of it as being observant and investigating but to each their own. OP has been called out on almost every post and never defended themselves. Could be a human who doesn't check the replies but either way, the behavior is the same.

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  • [+] [S] -14 points 5 days ago (22 children)

    Nah those people complaining are reddit agents. Trying to ruin lemmy

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (10 children)

    Comments accusing critics of being "Reddit Agents" are an indicator of a specific spammer. They are a proven operator of LLM-driven spambots. Two weeks ago one of their alts, sanitation@lemmy.today, left their prompt in the title and body of a post.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 5 days ago (9 children)

    Meh. Ya welcome for content.

    Accusing people of spamming when they given you content is an indication of a reddit agent that intentionally conflate those ideas with spam.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (8 children)

    You are a spammer. You contribute nothing and drown out real users.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    lol what users - there is 1 post a week otherwise. each of those posts are reposts from somehwere else - reddit, twiter, facebook . itsmemes bro - grow up

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago* (4 children)

    I'd rather have 1 post a week (it's more than that, but whatever) than someone like you who contributes nothing filling my feed with bullshit. You should just go back to reddit if you want the reddit experience.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    block me. you will have what you want. Reddit agents whining is pathetic

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    If you properly tagged your account as a bot, I wouldn't have to, and I'd never see your posts again. But you don't want that, you want to bring your karma farming bullshit here and refuse to properly tag anything. So I'll continue letting people know that you're just a low-grade spammer that consumes tons of LLM tokens just to fill our feeds with soulless content.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 child)

    If you are not a reddit shill you would just block me. That's how you know you are talking to a reddit shill - they chose to whine and harass people actually contributing without adding any value themselves.

    Karma? On lemmy? Who tf needs it? Your points are laughable

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  • Apparently you need it. You don't contribute anything of your own except for these comments replying to everyone rightfully hating your effortless reddit reposts.

    This whole "reddit shill" or whatever the fuck you're trying to say falls flat on its face when you're the one bringing reddit here.

    Let me say it again: you contribute nothing and add nothing of value yourself because you just burn LLM tokens to spam our feeds. You cannot give context to your posts as you're not the original author. You cannot respond with anything positive to say because you use LLMs to do your posting.

    Can you tell me one piece of original content you've posted that wasn't calling people reddit shills or agents?

    It's also hilarious that you say that, because it immediately shows actual users what you're all about. So keep saying it! Keep calling actual contributors that.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 days ago*

    lol not even a little. I'm trying to grow my lemmy communities. I have no problem with it being a bot, that's why I haven't blocked it. My issue is that it's not declared as a bot. Several times I've found myself asking further questions to just realize, it's that same guy who posted a "my super cool thing" five minutes ago and I won't get a response to my question. There's no way he has a jurrasic park themed turtle sanctuary in addition to the other 50 sweet things in his house/yard/town/

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    People might believe you if you provided the source or responded to anything other than to argue and dip

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    Look at what they do there's absolutely nobody posting on lemmy and they're trying to ban the only active contributor.

    who this is benefit clearly reddit.

    They are not just complainers, they are provocateurs attempting to decontent free and open platforms

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago* (2 children)

    You are not the only active contributor, in fact, you don't contribute anything of value, so drop that narcissistic line of thinking.

    You are the one bringing reddit here where it is unwelcome.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Literally people are only complaining because you post everything as "I did this I did that" no one would give a fuck if you just said you reposted it. But people want to have a discussion and think you actually did this stuff and get disappointed that no one ever answers them.

    You're taking the entire discussion portion out of it.

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