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blenderobyesterday at 1:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is an automated bot incorrectly claiming posts are dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=b16m

Looks like it was banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46188453

How is it still posting?


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embedding-shapeyesterday at 2:53 PM

> How is it still posting?

Banned accounts show up as [dead] as soon as they post, so most users don't see those comments, only those with showdead enabled. Commonly referred to as "shadowbanned" but usually operators also don't tell shadowbanned users they've been shadowbanned.

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poly2ityesterday at 2:04 PM

Looking at the posts, there are many formatting differences added across the comments. Either the account owner are posting the comments themselves, or they are manually modifying the bot script to add mistakes over time.