I've experienced a lot of strange things on Poal: Unusual comment timings, replies to old posts immediately after replying to someone else in a different post, brand new subs gaining ridiculous amounts of subscriptions in a short period of time, repeated verbatim replies in multiple posts from the same user (or even different users).
No doubt there are a lot of alts on Poal, but... something else is happening.
I am almost certain that activity exposure is also being gamed as I'll suddenly get multiple new replies to posts or comments the day after, when I log-in.
A few weeks ago I grabbed months worth of the Poal activity logs going back to when Voat shutdown, and found that ONLY about 100 users were actually creating subs.
[ - ] Wahaha 1 point 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 13:43:24 ago (+1/-0)
It's possible if someone has fast Internet. Also, the bots on Voat (and by that I mean derek) always took his sweet time. Sometimes users were faster than that bot.
[ + ] ArcturianDeathTrap
[ - ] ArcturianDeathTrap 0 points 3.2 yearsMar 3, 2021 14:10:33 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] account deleted by user
[ - ] account deleted by user 3 points 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 14:26:31 ago (+3/-0)
[ + ] 111MrGuy111
[ - ] 111MrGuy111 [op] 2 points 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 15:59:51 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] Nosferatjew
[ - ] Nosferatjew 2 points 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 16:09:36 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] Lin_Ching_Yu
[ - ] Lin_Ching_Yu 2 points 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 12:56:58 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] 111MrGuy111
[ - ] 111MrGuy111 [op] 1 point 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 13:18:47 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] Wahaha
[ - ] Wahaha 1 point 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 13:43:24 ago (+1/-0)
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[ - ] deleted 1 point 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 12:27:24 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] out
[ - ] out 0 points 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 19:33:49 ago (+0/-0)
Sure, there are actual humans sometimes - but the links are done by a bot.