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Do you think there's a botting problem
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LunarFox
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07 Jul 2025, 5:42 am

Seems like its many of the same people creating new threads and responding to them. Slightly suspicious. Hope I'm wrong though.


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07 Jul 2025, 5:50 am

Dunno mate

I'm from the olden days


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07 Jul 2025, 6:22 am

I don't think so - at least if there is, it's on nowhere near the scale you get on social media. TBH, the pool of active users on here seems to be shrinking by the month and I think that's why the same names keep cropping up.


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07 Jul 2025, 6:27 am

Phew!

I was beginning to think I'd been taken over by the body's snatchers or something


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07 Jul 2025, 6:39 am

Dunno mate.
I can pass CAPTCHAs now :nerdy:


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07 Jul 2025, 7:35 am

I guarantee there's a ton of bots scanning the content.


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07 Jul 2025, 7:43 am

What do they want from us


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07 Jul 2025, 8:05 am

LunarFox wrote:
Seems like its many of the same people creating new threads and responding to them. Slightly suspicious. Hope I'm wrong though.
Wow - that's pretty good for someone with just two days' standing as a member. :lol:

New members sometimes make many enthusiastic posts shortly after joining, and some of those may be in response to others on the same thread.
Established and regular posters also tend to make more posts and threads because, well - they're established and regular posters.

This is how forums work.

If you have any suspicions about posts or PMs you should report them.
This is always preferable to public speculation.

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