All the crypto bots and hire a hacker adverts make no sense. After all, they still need to either go through the API or make a selenium script. Will still take them 1 to 2 hours at least to build it. For what?

To advertise to a dying platform that has a dwindling community, which is on top of it well-versed in programming and technically affine, so that the probability of profiting of it is tiny...

My conjecture: A devrant member is pulling a long running prank.

I bet it's someone like theRealJase. Or someone like that.

Or it's @dfox pumping MAUs for an exit strategy

perhaps @sidtheitguy

@AceDev fuck off, bro. sincerely.

The Real Jase is a very novice programmer, don't think so.

Those messages are posted on multiple sites, it's about backlinking. Devrant does quite ok in Google. But if we downvote... What's the point.. But those people never look back. I doubt if it's automated, I think it's manual. Too many inconsistencies. Don't underestimate how cheap labor is in some places. Scammers on my phone talk endless with me (I do this for fun). Not AI but real people. We would consider it crazy if it's manual, but it's really crazy. Some people are cheaper than a bot

@retoor Yea, that makes a lot of sense. Backlinks. Good point.

@TrayKnots they should be posting that stuff under old rants so nobody gets notifs to downvote. There are many rants with no one still existing in comment section. That's good for backlinking prolly. I dunno how often Google reindexes, it took more than a month before it fully indexed my thousand page site that had a complete valid site map. Can't imagine reindexing with such a slow bot almost

You should've seen @chaosesqueteam. He had a quite advanced and big bot network on dr that would upvote posts with certain terms and eachother. Quite impressive

Selenium isn't needed since devrant has an api (There are 20 pages of devrant api projects on github!) . Ever tried cypress btw? It works great but it had performance issues in the era I worked with it during big test cases and no one including gitter chat knew solution. I ended up answering questions instead of getting mine resolved