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Who would do such a thing? And why? The poor little fella is just doing it's job...

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you considered listening to the pretty extensive explanations they’ve given in this comments section as to why?

I was just entertaining a notion as I lack the skills to do an analysis like you did.

As for reading the other comments here, I have read them now, and they are interesting, but when I first commented, there were no other comments here and the post stood at -3.

[–] auk 5 points 1 month ago

Reasonable. I wasn't trying to jump down your throat about it. I was a little annoyed at the comments which are positing some sort of fantasy scenario where the bot is useful, but where people hate it for irrational reasons. But yours was a reasonable question, definitely, in particular because for at least one account, it looks like what you described is exactly what's happening.