I made a post in this sub that got some traction (600+ upvotes as of this post) and ended up attracting some attention from Trump supporters who were trying to dissent. That's fine, and expected. What was interesting was a pair of posts I noticed...
See screen shot here.
First, these comments aren't entirely coherent. They're not well-strung english sentences like you'd expect to be generated by a human fluent in the language. They sound much more like something from /r/SubredditSmulator. Note in particular the common usage of the phrase, "of people out of all of us." Very strange...
Looking into the users' histories, we find that they each are 1 year old with exactly three posts (as of this writing).
User 1
User 2
Now...
I have no proof that these are bots. This could all be explained by coincidence, sure, but the coincidences are striking here...
1) Two non-sense comments on an anti-Trump post
2) Both comments have the same, identical uncommon phrase
3) Both accounts are 1 year old
4) Both accounts have exactly three comments previously
I would suspect these are bots using Markov chain commenting like the bots in /r/SubredditSimulator do.
ここには何もないようです