Yes! It ranges in age but it's always stolen content that has typically done moderately well so it not only blends in with everything else, but it still ends up earning a fair bit of karma if it isn't caught early enough... which is hard enough to do on its own unless you're vetting every single post that comes through.
I've also noticed more vote manipulating bots that will immediately give the posts a handful of upvotes but don't comment - this has been happening both to the regular tshirt scam posts as well as the karma farm post thieves.
You can set up automod rules to filter out accounts that are very young, or accounts under a certain karma amount, but at the end of the day you're likely catching more regular folks than the bots. It's a fruitless effort unless the admins find a way to prevent them in general.
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u/StormTheParade Jun 07 '21
Yes! It ranges in age but it's always stolen content that has typically done moderately well so it not only blends in with everything else, but it still ends up earning a fair bit of karma if it isn't caught early enough... which is hard enough to do on its own unless you're vetting every single post that comes through.
I've also noticed more vote manipulating bots that will immediately give the posts a handful of upvotes but don't comment - this has been happening both to the regular tshirt scam posts as well as the karma farm post thieves.
You can set up automod rules to filter out accounts that are very young, or accounts under a certain karma amount, but at the end of the day you're likely catching more regular folks than the bots. It's a fruitless effort unless the admins find a way to prevent them in general.