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<p dir="auto">I've noticed quite a few top posters that are using LLMs or other software to repost news links and images, probably from Reddit, onto a bunch of specific forums. They don't identify as bot accounts, but they are fairly easy to spot because they are posting a steady stream of posts, around 2-3 posts an hour, 24/7. No sleep periods, just constant posts, at an unnatural rate.</p>
<p dir="auto">Here's a few examples I've found:</p>
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<li><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/grumpus_maximus%40thelemmy.club" aria-label="Profile: Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club">@<bdi>Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club</bdi></a> - Joined 2 months ago, 1.69K posts, sole moderator of Build A PC Sales@lemmy.world, steady stream of posts without sleeping, only posts on 4 different forums</li>
<li><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/sanitation%40lemmy.today" aria-label="Profile: sanitation@lemmy.today">@<bdi>sanitation@lemmy.today</bdi></a> - Joined 2 months ago, 1.3K posts, steady stream of posts without sleeping, only posts on 5-6 different forums</li>
<li><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/beep%40piefed.world" aria-label="Profile: beep@piefed.world">@<bdi>beep@piefed.world</bdi></a> - Joined 3 months ago, 2K posts, moderator of 15 different forums only on piefed.world, also a hidden moderator of Beep—Meta@piefed.world (yes, with an emdash) with zero posts and zero users, seems to try to evade detection by having some posting breaks in-between</li>
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<p dir="auto">Keep an eye on these kind of posters, and report them when you see them.</p>
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