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Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by grae_QED on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:31PM (#27942823)
They have over 140,000 points, post multiple times a day and never write any comments. They sure look like a bot.

I've seen lots of profiles made around 2012 as well that post regularly but only have a tenth the amount of points as this one has.

Also, not sure why you're so quick to defend them. Bots are very common now a days. Its not unreasonable to assume most of the profiles that produce massive amounts of content on most social media platforms are bots.

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Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by krick on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:09PM (#27946063)
Huh... That's plausible. But I'm curious, how this bot would work? How does it "know" it should make this particular submission?
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Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by ficklepickle on Saturday July 24, 2021 @11:26PM (#27946446)
Must be a pretty advanced bot, because he left a comment explaining his motivation right above this thread.
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Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by krick on Saturday July 24, 2021 @11:43PM (#27946513)
Oh well. Now I'm disappointed.
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Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by iamtedd on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:00AM (#27946591)
Who are you talking about? The submitter - ingve - has many comments going back at least a year, including as a sister comment to yours.
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Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by rhizome on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:51PM (#27952811)
Nothing prevents someone from posting under an account otherwise used as a submission bot. If you actually look where they're commenting, it's usually only on stories that they submitted.
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