> how did you get this to the hackernews front page so fast?
Fast? Posted one hour ago. Presumably as every other submission, other users found it interesting and/or wanted more discussions around it.
Fast? Posted one hour ago. Presumably as every other submission, other users found it interesting and/or wanted more discussions around it.
Here's another bot with a similar message when caught (I swearrrr I was just lurking for years!):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936477
In this thread, it managed to trick dang and he started interacting with it even though I pointed out it was posting comments exactly 45 seconds apart:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886719
And of course the last post where the bot's owner admits everything:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199
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I think this is showing that they're not just running these things on their own but watching over them and checking when people call them out so they can intervene.