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How Many Bots Do You Think Are on Poal?

submitted by 111MrGuy111 to whatever 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 12:24:13 ago (+2/-0)     (whatever)

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.

WTF is going on over there???


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[ - ] ArcturianDeathTrap 0 points 3.2 yearsMar 3, 2021 14:10:33 ago (+0/-0)

Surely, theyll never come here

[ - ] account deleted by user 3 points 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 14:26:31 ago (+3/-0)

account deleted by user

[ - ] 111MrGuy111 [op] 2 points 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 15:59:51 ago (+2/-0)

Got any evidence?

[ - ] Nosferatjew 2 points 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 16:09:36 ago (+2/-0)

There comes a point, where instinct takes over, and you no longer need to check "early life".

[ - ] Lin_Ching_Yu 2 points 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 12:56:58 ago (+2/-0)

There were instances where I would press the submit button for a post and get a comment before I even returned to the front page.

[ - ] 111MrGuy111 [op] 1 point 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 13:18:47 ago (+1/-0)

This exactly. This is impossible to happen with human interaction.

[ - ] 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.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 12:27:24 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] out 0 points 3.2 yearsFeb 28, 2021 19:33:49 ago (+0/-0)

Most of the user accounts posting news stories all day are automated.

Sure, there are actual humans sometimes - but the links are done by a bot.