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actually, you couldn't be more right. That's fucking right you thought it was a fucking comment but it was actually ad by reddit
a lot of them are chatgpt accounts approved by Reddit. Same Reason r/programming went down since many people took notice of it
https://web.archive.org/web/20230611210834/https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/146wn9s/meta_who_is_astroturfing_rprogramming_and_why/