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400 million year old Trilobite (imgur.com)

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[–]RamsesThePigeon 105ポイント106ポイント  (32子コメント)

ATTENTION, PLEASE!

/u/flipa_delphiaisback is a month-old account that is offering exclusively reposts. There have been quite a few such accounts showing up recently.

At present, my operating theory is that these folks - those of them that aren't robots, that is - are working out of a call-center-like environment where they are creating and inflating Reddit accounts. I'm not sure why they're doing that, but it seems to be a recent trend. (Do you have a guess? Please let me know!)

[–]fat_over_lean 37ポイント38ポイント  (2子コメント)

My best guess is to rack up karma to 'legitimize' the account, then sell the account to a business for things like planted AMA questions, product reviews, etc.

[–]RamsesThePigeon 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

That was my suspicion, too... though I can't shake the feeling that there would be easier ways of doing it.

[–]strallweat 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's probably a bot that automatically reposts top posts from subs and uses the same title. Might explain why there's a lack or comments.

[–]speedofdark8 [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

are you documenting this anywhere? Make a subreddit to log these accounts and their responses, it would be interesting to see. Maybe an admin will take notice and find a root cause using their tools

[–]RamsesThePigeon [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Yeah, I'm keeping a list, and an administrator has already spoken with me about it.

There's also a subReddit called /r/thesefuckingaccounts that is documenting still a different variety of spam-bot.

[–]cyrilio 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

Article from the NY Times describing this. And here is a pic with a higher resolution.

[–]Quantum_Finger 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

It's amazing when you consider that we are essentially studying alien life right here on Earth. That thing is so far removed from a world that we would find habitable.

[–]blackout27 [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Do you mean inhabitable?

[–]fufai_ter [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

No, habitable. It is far removed from what we would find habitable, i.e. it is far removed from Earth as we know it.

[–]Whale_Sausage 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

To put it in perspective.

Dinosaurs came about in the Triassic period roughly 231 million years ago.

Since this Trilobite is almost 200 million years older, it is more or less a "dinosaur" of the dinosaurs.

[–]diegojones4 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Eat it.

[–]satan_loves_you 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Whatever you do, DO NOT get it wet!

[–]PM_ME_A_SteamKey 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

All praise the helix fossil

[–]TheChosenShit 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Dome*

Looks more like Kabuto than Omanyte to me.

[–]ArenaMan100 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Grand Ma!

[–]rarest23 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Kill it over again

[–]TheAdamantArchvile 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Gives you vampiric powers if you put it on. Go ahead and try it.

[–]allphaze 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

still going; rogue

[–]lilgamelvr 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That is very sharp.

[–]thedanyon 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That thing looks specifically designed to latch onto your spine and control your mind.

[–]megamoze [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

It's over 3 times older to the T-Rex than the T-Rex is to us.

[–]bslade [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Re: increasing number of suspicious accounts

What do you expect when all you need is an email address to establish an account. It's a fundamental flaw in the architecture. As the Reddit gets more popular, there will more incentives for large scale gaming. How do we know that it's not already happening? I'd like to be able to have a credit card authenticated account and see only authenticated user votes for stuff.

On a meta-level, there's no place (that's well attended) to discuss this (that I could find). I found r/metareddit, but it's lonely and quiet there. That "Contact Us" link on the bottom of the page has no pointer to a reddit to discuss issues about/suggestions for reddit.

[–]juice22x [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

It's actually only 399 million years old.

[–]1_Marauder -4ポイント-3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm pretty sure you meant 6,000 years old.../s

[–]lalosuper3001 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Exactly. Earth is only 6000 years old, according to my pastor.

[–]Roargasm85 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

400 million years of NOPE just waiting to be discovered.

[–]WanderingIdiot2 -1ポイント0ポイント  (4子コメント)

I'm so glad I wasn't the one to discover it. I know for a fact I would have stepped on it and given it a good rub to make sure it was dead before even considering looking to see what it was.