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Originally Posted by McLovin
Thanks Mike, very interesting.
It looks like “Jesse” has been nuked, his reply in this thread is gone, but it was a very detailed and specific response to the specific comments in this thread. It wouldn’t be applicable to any threads on other BBs.
That had to be typed by a human, right?
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Come on, you know that computers are now smart enough to read this thread, process the data, understand the subject and then use their fake username to interject human sounding responses, right?
I'm kidding. I hope. Jesse is clearly a person, but that person is clearly acting like an old skool bot. Perhaps some companies pay a LOT of money for people to actually sit and created reasonable looking posts? The posts you see a given bot-person reply to are varied and random, as are the links. Perhaps there's a dark web list of interested companies that you can buy, and you just search dozens of forums for threads vaguely related to one of the companies on the list?
The old bots are stopped at the gate these days, forums have enough protection software for that. But, the modern internet stealth weapon is a bored poor Gen-Z in Ukraine, who can evade the built in protections.