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Is it just me or have there been a lot of posts lately from accounts with overall negative comment karma.
Not just you and it's not just /r/emacs or /r/org-mode, I've seen them in other places as well. While the guy in /r/org-mode wasn't one, most of them write so poorly that they must be ESL people and argue about minute things that well-adjusted (genuine?) people wouldn't argue about.
The other thing I'm seeing is an increase in duplicated posts to multiple forums asking fragmentary, barely coherent questions. Writing this, I just had the obvious epiphany that my assumption--there's a person at the other end--might be wrong.
Hm, yeah, imagine some kind of service that takes a question from a user and posts it on Reddit, then feeds the answers into its own ML model and gives something back to the user (with a significant delay, obviously, so maybe more for training purposes).
There was a post here within the past couple of months that, when I looked at its account history, seemed to be obviously some kind of bot, but its writing was coherent enough to seem authentic in isolation.
Seems like a dark time for the Web is coming. :/
In this case, his negative comment karma comes from heavy involvement in subs regarding overseas affairs (i.e., opinions about current events in Israel). His question about learning elisp was genuine.