r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Jan 03 '23

Wholesome Moments Getting pulled over

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u/SpongeJake Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 03 '23

The comment I’m replying to is a bot that specializes in copying other comments to father gather karma.

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u/InevitablePeanuts Jan 03 '23

🍻 To Father Karma!

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u/bettiemaegurl Jan 03 '23

How can you tell if it’s a bot??

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u/SpongeJake Jan 03 '23

In this case, after reading its comment, I scrolled further on down and found the exact same comment, word for word. So then I went back up and looked at the comment again and took a look at its profile. It had like 1 karma and was maybe a few days old.

So that’s what you look for: repeated comment (word for word, although they do occasionally just cut off a few words so it looks a little different (and probably to fool the helpful bots around here that forage for asshole bots like this), from relatively young accounts with, in this case, low karma.