And last time or two I checked like 3 of the top 10 were all from subs that are clones of amitheasshole
And last time or two I checked like 3 of the top 10 were all from subs that are clones of amitheasshole
They didn’t even do that though. It was an absolutely brand new 1 karma account that somehow mysteriously didn’t get automodded to hell. Account created 09:00:27 UTC, then Ally Bank comment at 09:11:37 UTC
They mentioned Ally Financial as one of the success cases so I did a quick search for recent posts about Ally and sure enough the very first result from outside their own sub has this user contributing to the conversation:
https://www.reddit.com/user/robbiedavissie
Somebody posts a question about Ally and this 11 minute old account comes along pitching all of Ally Bank’s features. Then a week later they’re making 3 posts in a row advertising some other brand.
Super sketch.
It always blows my mind how much broken shit Ubuntu gets away with and all their users blame literally everything else without ever once even considering it’s Ubuntu that’s to blame.
Packages having a hard coded version name and then installing a completely different version is a Ubuntu repo classic.
Holy shit if you keep following the link about the GPT influx it just keeps getting worse and worse. First link: nearly 1000 bots. Next link: 2400 bots! An even further link: Over 5000 now!
Back in my day we had to read through a 10-panel rage comic just to get the dumbest take imaginable
Re: the weird behavior of those accounts’ user pages, for what it’s worth, Reddit has always had a way for the admins to create fake skeleton accounts since the very beginning. If you look for it, there’s an interview by Spez (maybe Ohanian?) talking about how the admins had a special post submission page, with an extra field to specify a username, that would create a fake account to go along with the post.
Or even modifying the login page to send and store unencrypted passwords to get passwords from people who already registered long ago