Full title: I hid a link on my website that only bots can see and told them not to follow it. They broke the rules and in 4 days they went 124,414 levels deep into an endless maze. One bot opened 782,580 doors. I thought this was super interesting, this is how the internet is these days. Thought I’d share.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    In other words, you don’t really know - not that there’s anything wrong with that. Opinions and “it’s obvious” are the social media standard for “fact”.

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      16 hours ago

      That user has a history of reposting reddit content and the format and pattern of posts are obviously not human. All of its posts are originally from reddit. A simple search of its posts will show you they are copied word for word from an older reddit post. What more evidence do you need?

    • Leigh Weigh@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      I prefer to think of it as being observant and investigating but to each their own. OP has been called out on almost every post and never defended themselves. Could be a human who doesn’t check the replies but either way, the behavior is the same.