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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.

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[-] phailhaus@piefed.social 6 points 7 hours ago

Post quantities are a big indicator. A stronger indicator in this case is that their only comment on this post is accusing people of being "Reddit Agents". That points to a specific spambot operator with multiple alts that refuses to declare any of them as bots. They had a malfunction two weeks ago that left their LLM prompt in a post.

[-] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

You can also usually just look up the top posts on Reddit via redlib and find the word for word post there, if you really wanted to be sure.

[-] myavatar@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

Thank you very much :)

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