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Comment by nomel

> Thin accounts: few comments, low scores, no real standing in the subreddit.

> Young accounts, or accounts with histories that are hidden or wiped.

Nope, this is no longer an indicator of a bot account. Many that I've looked into will have active posts to local town/region subreddits (often times multiple!) and different sports subreddits, sometimes getting unusually high amounts of karma in them (which suggests a network).

Turing test is looong dead, so no reason to assume the small fractions of a cent to make comments, to get a reasonable history, isn't being taken advantage of.

parent nomel 1 month ago

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