Full title: I hid a link on my website that only bots can see and told them not to follow it. They broke the rules and in 4 days they went 124,414 levels deep into an endless maze. One bot opened 782,580 doors. I thought this was super interesting, this is how the internet is these days. Thought I’d share.
Post history and seeing the same username every day. Plus they rarely every respond to questions and comments when they post and what they respond with is generic.
Shit, sounds like me.
What’s the purpose of doing this as a bot but not declaring the account as a bot account? On other sites, they do it for karma farming, but that doesn’t really apply here, right?
Probably just another layer of analytics for engagement bait in other spaces. They can also copy top comments and train LLMs and whatever else every bad actor does to every internet comment site now. They are like a slime mold and grow toward any source of nutrition except it’s an n-dimensional maze and the nutrition is influencing public opinion and scamming people.
If you see the same username every day, that means you are on every day… only a spy would do that.
Suspected Chinese agent, possibly Russian
In other words, you don’t really know - not that there’s anything wrong with that. Opinions and “it’s obvious” are the social media standard for “fact”.
I prefer to think of it as being observant and investigating but to each their own. OP has been called out on almost every post and never defended themselves. Could be a human who doesn’t check the replies but either way, the behavior is the same.