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taylorbuley · 2011-02-01 01:04:40+00:00

It looks like he's responding to each individual comment thread, as if to try to get people to notice via their threads link

disturbedfood | karma 4 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2013-06-06 08:48:27+00:00

Well the first one is the beginning of a comment thread, the other two are replies to the top one. If you click the top one you see that there are multiple replies and he appears to be a troll.

Shamiq | karma 1251 | avg karma 2.16 · | 2011-03-10 20:00:17+00:00

It's his way of staying active in the community without having to constantly check threads for replies. A fun optimization, if you ask me :)

kayamon | karma 1535 | avg karma 3.16 · | 2015-02-07 05:23:37+00:00

Every time he posts someone replies to say he doesn't know what he's talking about. (possibly not realizing who they're replying to)

yawaramin | karma 3520 | avg karma 1.85 · | 2015-03-16 23:50:42+00:00

Whoa, easy with the thread policing. He's specifically replying to people asking him questions, not randomly shouting.

gasthem_45 | karma -7 | avg karma -2.33 · | 2020-03-21 08:47:45

How is he managing to post these comments repeatedly? I need to make a new account here every day or two because I get flagged almost immediately.

gitrog | karma 395 | avg karma 2.8 · | 2021-05-06 20:08:23+00:00

They're his posts?

ricardobeat | karma 18682 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2016-06-26 22:53:49+00:00

Looks like he is either farming karma, or running some kind of experiment. I found several visited links in his submission history (and all of them reposted 5-6x).

ahamedirshad123 | karma 313 | avg karma 4.54 · | 2017-11-09 14:55:22

Looks like he is a bot. Just posting three links everywhere

tptacek | karma 394296 | avg karma 6.04 · | 2013-04-30 12:50:33+00:00

You should follow all his comments. He's like this all the time. It's a little freaky.

SeanDav | karma 5562 | avg karma 4.57 · | 2013-02-06 15:48:51+00:00

My guess is that he knows, and posts anyway. I have come across this a few times.

I_am_tiberius | karma 1210 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2023-06-08 13:48:22

Maybe he uses other users' accounts to express his opinions.

Chris2048 | karma 2919 | avg karma 0.51 · | 2022-09-05 21:14:59

> plus he always leaves comments when he does so

How do you know this?

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codetrotter | karma 16631 | avg karma 3.67 · | 2024-06-10 17:35:16

He's the person that submitted the post. I assume he added it for context.

ZeroGravitas | karma 26196 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2010-11-19 04:58:41

I've linked to his first appearance in the comment thread, but he posted several more. All worth reading, imho.

ochiba | karma 202 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2009-06-18 23:18:17+00:00

He posted the same comment 3 times?

akras14 | karma 2721 | avg karma 5.52 · | 2016-04-04 14:30:08+00:00

I don't remember seeing any responses in my data set. I think I have seen him respond to comments before, hence where I got my inspiration.

I also know that he has people who actually are connected to him (he friended them back) and their comments appear to show up differently from the regular followers.

He does reply to those comments a lot more, intensifying the illusion that if you write to him, he will read it.

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ffggvv | karma 910 | avg karma 0.97 · | 2016-08-24 11:32:32+00:00

Probably this is why he put here those links, to redirect the new set of users to discussions from the old set of users.

serverholic | karma 932 | avg karma 1.38 · | 2023-02-10 07:16:41

It looks like this guy has created multiple accounts and posted the same URL multiple times.

iratewizard | karma 340 | avg karma 0.52 · | 2020-12-25 00:21:48+00:00

It's self promotion. He's selling himself as a thought leader of mediocre thoughts. Other people who do it are also spamming.